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Dec 20, 2010 2:05 AM CST

Lady Gaga Stomps Santa Claus

'I hate the holidays,' says concert shock mistress

(Newser) - Is nothing sacred, Lady Gaga? Apparently not. Poor Santa Claus took a stiletto heel to the head at the singer's Monsterball London concert, reports the Telegraph . Someone tossed the small stuffed Santa onto the stage and Gaga first tried to bite its head off, à la Ozzy Osbourne. But the...

Pre-Breakfast Workout
Can Beat the Holiday Flab

Dec 15, 2010 1:57 PM CST

Pre-Breakfast Workout Can Beat the Holiday Flab

Working out before you've eaten helps your metabolism

(Newser) - Terrified of packing on the pounds thanks to all that pigging out you’ll be doing over the holidays? Well, a group of researchers in Belgium has a solution: just exercise before breakfast. In a new study, researchers fed a group of active young men a high-fat, high-calorie diet, then...

Christmas Caroling:
Quaint Tradition
Begun By Drunks

Dec 5, 2010 8:48 AM CST

Christmas Caroling: Quaint Tradition Begun By Drunks

Also, Santa? Didn't start out being so jolly

(Newser) - Cheerful church groups love Christmas caroling, but the tradition was actually started by a bunch of lushes. Back when "Christmas" was actually a celebration of the winter solstice, poor carolers would go from house to house singing ... and also threatening to break windows if they were not plied with...

'12 Days of Christmas' Gifts Will Cost You $97K

Nov 29, 2010 6:53 AM CST

'12 Days of Christmas' Gifts Will Cost You $97K

Gold prices push the cost of 5 rings to $650

(Newser) - If your true love gives you everything from 12 drummers drumming to a partridge in a pear tree this year, he or she will have shelled out $96,824. That’s up 10.8% from last year, the AP reports. High gold prices pushed the cost of five gold rings...

Holiday Season Arrives Early: Christmas Lights, Decorations, Santas Are Already Here

Christmas Is Here...
Way Too Early

Nov 21, 2010 9:34 AM CST

Christmas Is Here... Way Too Early

Six signs that the holiday season has gotten too impatient

(Newser) - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... even though we're not yet past Thanksgiving. The Week pores through local papers to find six tales of Christmas coming too early this year:

It's never too early for eggnog lattes: In Seattle , at least one Starbucks started selling seasonal drinks right

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'Christmas' Saviors: We're Winning the War

Nov 19, 2010 1:30 PM CST

'Christmas' Saviors: We're Winning the War

This year, Dick's Sporting Goods is target of boycott

(Newser) - Dick's Sporting Goods gets the unlucky honor of being this year's villain in the “War on Christmas” campaign. The American Family Association has singled it out for a boycott this holiday season because the chain is “against” the holiday, reports Advertising Age . One of its offenses is having...

Town of Naperville Wants All 145K Residents to Pose for Holiday Card

Town Wants All
145K Residents
in Holiday Card

Nov 19, 2010 10:09 AM CST

Town Wants All 145K Residents in Holiday Card

Naperville, Illinois, hoping to squeeze everyone into a photo

(Newser) - The town of Naperville, Ill., has some pretty grand plans for this year's holiday card: It wants every single resident—that's 145,000 people—to appear on it. The town's mayor has invited the Chicago suburb's residents to pose for a photo next Friday at a time very convenient for...

Dating Site
for Hotties
Culls Fatties

LIVING TOO LARGE

Jan 5, 2010 1:48 PM CST

Dating Site for Hotties Culls Fatties

BeautifulPeople members saw holiday pudge, weren't having it

(Newser) - Some 5,000 members of the online dating site BeautifulPeople.com are members no more after their discerning compatriots booted them for beefing up over the holidays. “Vigilant members” of the community, which has a strict “ugly people” ban, noticed a slew of photos over the New Year...

Holiday
Violence:
Not Just
for Celebs

Dec 29, 2009 11:50 AM CST

Holiday Violence: Not Just for Celebs

As Tiger Woods and Charlie Sheen prove, this season can be stressful

(Newser) - Elin Nordegren kicked off this year's holiday season on the wrong foot, reportedly chasing Tiger Woods with a golf club in the wee hours after Thanksgiving. Charlie Sheen piled on, allegedly assaulting his wife on Christmas, writes Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon , and it's worth noting that the holidays can...

Americans
Send Fewer
Holiday Cards

MAYBE NEXT YEAR...

Dec 19, 2009 7:52 AM CST

Americans Send Fewer Holiday Cards

Penny-pinchers skimp on mailbox cheer

(Newser) - Noticing a certain emptiness in your mailbox? Holiday cards are the latest victims of the weak economy—Americans sent 11% fewer pieces of mail than in 2008 during the first half of December, the US Postal Service reports. Hallmark estimates that 1.8 billion holiday cards will be sent this...

Economy Curbs Holiday Travel

sleighs need fuel, too

Dec 18, 2009 4:20 PM CST

Economy Curbs Holiday Travel

Americans stay home or scale back vacation plans

(Newser) - The weak economy is taking a toll on Americans' plans for holiday travel, forcing cash-strapped would-be vacationers to alter trips or abandon them altogether. A recent poll found that, of those who planned to travel more than 100 miles for the holidays, a third said they had been forced to...

It's High Time We Get a New Classic Christmas Movie

no more 'elf,' please

Dec 6, 2009 7:10 AM CST

It's High Time We Get a New Classic Christmas Movie

A critic says 'bah humbug' to another year's worth of mediocre movies

(Newser) - When it comes to films, the Christmas canon is made up of old favorites like It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and Miracle on 34th Street that are, well, old—and it's high time that changed. The 21st century is the "dark ages" of holiday movie going, writes...

Gingerbread
White House
Boasts
Candy Bo

white house holidays

Dec 3, 2009 3:32 PM CST

Gingerbread White House Boasts Candy Bo

Eco-friendly lights, 27 trees liven up the full-size executive mansion

(Newser) - Everyone got into the act of readying the White House for the holidays—staffers and volunteers who helped with decorating, community groups whose members created ornaments, and even the White House bees, whose honey went into the gingerbread that became a 390-pound replica of the executive mansion. At the bottom...