Holiday Season

Is Madonna Menopausal? One Drag Queen Weighs In

Drag star Hedda Lettuce entertained that theory in her holiday show, "Lettuce Rejoice," which I saw at the Metropolitan Room last night. In fact, Hedda sang a whole song about it, to the tune of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town." (Sample lyrics, aimed at poor Madge: "You'd better watch out, you'd b ... More >>

The Five Best Viral Christmas Songs of 2012

If you evaluate your holiday season by the number of Christmas video clips you find on the Internet, then you would be hard-pressed to not consider winter 2012 among the best ever! From unexpected renditions of timeless classics to original tunes that are sure to become standards, there was no short ... More >>

A Three-Hour Medley Of Christmas Songs!

This is all you'll need as your aural backdrop for what's left of the Christmas season. It's a three-hour--plus 17:56 minute--mashup of every Christmas song ever recorded, from the cute to the charming to the charmingly cute to the downright satanic. I hate this stuff with a passion, but maybe if ... More >>

WAKE UP, IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY

Spend today with people you love the most, like James Stewart!

The Best of South Park's Christmas Songs

Fifteen years ago today, Comedy Central's hit South Park first aired its iconic "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo" episode. Along with introducing the notion of "Christmas poo" into seasonal holiday conversations, it offered the first major glimpse of co-creator Trey Parker's song-writing capabilities. ... More >>

Hanukkah Face-Off: Ashkenazi Dish #7

Hanukkah is a time for enjoying Jewish culinary traditions with family and friends, and to that end we present a daily competition between Ashkenazi and Sephardic food, going up around sunset on the first seven days of Hanukkah - and presenting a wrap-up as the sun goes down on the eighth day. Whose ... More >>

Hanukkah Face-Off: Ashkenazi Dish #6

Hanukkah is a time for enjoying Jewish culinary traditions with family and friends, and to that end we present a daily competition between Ashkenazi and Sephardic food, going up around sunset on the first seven days of Hanukkah - and presenting a wrap-up as the sun goes down on the eighth day. Whose ... More >>

The Five Best Christmas Songs You've Never Heard

If there's two things you'll find no shortage of every holiday season, it's Christmas music and complaints about Christmas music. Whether overheard on the radio while the family cooks Christmas dinner in the kitchen, or providing the soundtrack to some frantic last-minute mall madness, the seasonal ... More >>

Hanukkah Face-Off: Ashkenazi Dish #3

Hanukkah is a time for enjoying Jewish culinary traditions with family and friends, and to that end we present a daily competition between Ashkenazi and Sephardic food, going up around sunset on the first seven days of Hanukkah - and presenting a wrap-up as the sun goes down on the eighth day. Whose ... More >>

Why I Hate Christmas With A Passion

'Tis the season to be cranky, so let me spit out my eggnog and tell you what I hate about this enforced annual nightmare: *The fact that it starts earlier and earlier each year. This year, the hype started in October! Next year it'll probably be July. *The relentless barrage of fake good cheer a ... More >>

GOTHIC XMAS

A party to leave your crypt for

Connecticut Home Blaze 'Fireplace-Related'

gigmasters.comThe victims of the Stamford fire.​Yesterday we brought you the tragic story of the five people -- three girls and their grandparents -- who died when a fire engulfed their Stamford, Conn. home. Now, Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia has told the Associated Press that the fire "firepla ... More >>

FESTIVAL OF LAUGHS

On the fifth night of Hanukkah . . .

Santa Claus Is From Chelsea

​Everything you thought you knew about Santa may be a lie! According to the New York Historical Society, Santa is not, despite all of our assumptions, a native North Pole-ian, complete with North Pole-like ideologies, politics, and annoying habits. He's actually a sophisticated New Yorker hail ... More >>

DIRTY SANTA

John Waters’s perverted Christmas

The McCarren Park 'Hipster' Christmas Tree Gets Some Upgrades

​Yesterday we noted, thanks to New York Shitty and the L Magazine, that there was a Christmas tree "growing" in Brooklyn. Made of PBRs implanted in a tree-shape in the McCarren Park fence at Bedford and North 12th, plus red and green painted sneakers, a star made of Metrocards, plastic bags, t ... More >>

Avoiding the Holiday's Most Cloying Carol

Hold the drumming, boy

Live: Scott Weiland Is Full Of Strange Merriment At The P.C. Richard & Son Theater

Scott Weiland P.C. Richard & Son Theater Tuesday, November 29 Better than: Losing The Drummer Boy Challenge. The P.C. Richard and Son Theater is a small venue with a capacity of maybe 200 people at most; its size can make the space seem like a compressed TV studio. Last night, during Scott Weilan ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Yo La Tengo Celebrates 10 Years of Hanukkah Miracles

Next year, in Hoboken

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Enter Wonderland

From Candlelight to Bubble Light: a 1950s Christmas in an 1850s House

Scrooge McHorrible America Will Tax Your Christmas Tree [Updated]

​A tax on Christmas trees -- Christmas trees! -- has been approved by the Obama administration, to raise $2 million to pay for an ad campaign that will explain the benefits of live trees over fake ones. Does anyone really need to be explained the benefits of live trees? In brief, they smell be ... More >>

Please Stop Christmas Shopping in October, You're Making Us Look Bad

​Check your calendars, friends. Yep, we're in October, a month in which your only concern should be which of your lightweight jackets to throw across your shoulders as you tread effortlessly out of your house and also, what creative and intelligent but still sultry and appealing to members of ... More >>

The Top 10 Christmas Albums Of 2010

No.​Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>

Home for the Holidays with New York City Chefs

brainbasedbusiness.comTwas the Night Before Deliciousness​ Ah, the holidays. A time for eating, cozying up by the fire, eating, caroling, and more eating. How will New York City chefs be celebrating this Yuletide? We got in touch with a bunch of them to see what their feasting entails and ... More >>

Your Christmas Tree May Be Offending Someone Right Now

​Today in over-the-top political correctness seemingly supported by science: Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada have undertaken a study to see how Christmas trees hurt the feelings of impact people who aren't Christian. They asked 77 Christians and 57 non-Christians to fill out a ... More >>

Make Nikki Cascone's Sweet Potato Latkes with Lime Crème Fraiche, from Octavia's Porch

Sam HorineSweet Potato Latkes​It's the last day of Hanukkah, but that doesn't mean it's the last day to enjoy satisfying snacks like potato latkes. There really is no season for these savory potato pancakes. Nikki Cascone, who just opened her new "global Jewish" restaurant, Octavia's Porch, sh ... More >>

Ho! and Looking at Christmas Stuff New York's Stockings

New pieces by Brian Dykstra and Steven Banks join a Yule-logged season

On Mariah Carey's Agreeably Bizarre Yuletide Sequel Merry Christmas II You

Times Square Christmas Eve 1970 with the Taxi Dancers

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 31, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 53 Silent night, lonely night at the Tango Palace By Lucian K. Truscott IV Christmas eve. Times Square is empty, darkened by closed shops and shut-down signs. Only the Fascination Playlands seems to be e ... More >>

'Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party'

MERRY KITSCHMAS

Be Ronnie Spector's Little X-Mas Baby

HOLIDAY FUN

Keen Company presents Beasley's Christmas Party

Hope You Had a Merry Effing Christmas

On the holiday-concert trail with Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love, and . . . Twisted Sister

Come All Ye Unfaithful

Untraditional yuletide offerings

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. . . And to All Some Good Nights

Festive fun that's both naughty and nice

Naughty & Nice

Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive

Brew Ho Ho

Sud-slinging santas toast the season

Queer African Americans Gather to Celebrate the Season

Ongoing

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Merry Mayhem

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Cheap Cheer

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Holidaze

The Holiday Season is Upon Us. Feel Like Celebrating or Hibernating?

Holiday Happenings

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