Santa Claus

Pia Zadora Is Coming To Our City!

She was the child star of Midgie Purvis, a 1961 Broadway comedy starring Tallulah Bankhead, and also appeared in 1964's immortal work of cinema Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. Later, she became the grownup vamp, married to the rich guy who freely bought gifts for press people. (I was sent a 10-sp ... More >>

Hunky Santas Bringing You Their Packages! NSFW

Yes, I may be a few days late with this, but there's no expiration date on a video of hot, half-naked escort types half-dressed as Santa Claus and yearning to climb down your chimney and up your chute.

Starting Monday: Eggnog Week at FiTR

Chipwich eggnog? We don't think so! This year, instead of the usual omnibus coverage of gifts for foodies, restaurant holiday meals, cookie recipes, and pictures of animals wearing Santa Claus suits (though there will also be that), Fork in the Road has decided to pull out all the stops and featur ... 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 >>

SUGAR RUSH

Bring your (inner) 
kid to nitehawk

Adventures with Santa and Co. in Rise of the Guardians

Jack Frost and the Secular Pantheon

Big Tex, Icon of Texas State Fair, Burns to the Ground

Burn, baby, burn Big Tex, the 52-foot-tall symbol of the Texas State Fair, smoldered, caught fire, and was finally engulfed in flames late last week at the fairgrounds in Dallas before firefighters could arrive and put it out. As the above video demonstrates, the process took only six minutes. The ... More >>

I Got Two Amazing Christmas Gifts!

I got dozens of them, actually, but two stand above the pack for their unique mixture of kitschy appeal and downright usefulness. First of all, I can now brush my teeth to the sound of Justin Bieber singing "U Smile!"

Two Christmas Songs I Really Hate!

​I know "hate" and "Christmas" probably shouldn't be in the same sentence, so how about "despise"? Anyway, I absolutely loathe "The Little Drummer Boy". I find it slow and tedious and pretentious and annoying. Hearing it over and over again is the equivalent of putting hot pokers under my n ... More >>

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 >>

Eggnog the Artisanal Way? Ronnybrook Farm Is Happy to Coat Your Lips

Lauren BloombergA bottle of the season​Traditionally, the holiday season starts on Black Friday -- a/k/a the day that crazed shoppers brave getting pepper sprayed and/or trampled in the midst of retail madness. However, there are other (read: more sensible) signifiers that Santa Claus is comin ... More >>

Seven Spots to Eat a Feast of the Seven Fishes

Andy Ciordia/FlickrExpect fish, fish, fish, and more fish.​ Christmas is a-coming, and while the kiddies might be all excited about Santa Claus's visit, the more food-focused will be looking forward to the Feast of the Seven Fishes, one of the most gluttonous culinary traditions of the season. ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Arthur Christmas

Comments of the Week: Village Voice T-Shirt Giveaway!

​This week we're starting a new feature in which we give away Village Voice t-shirts to some of our esteemed commenters. We've judged this week's crop and have come away with some winners. If your comment was picked, email web editor Francesca Stabile to claim your prize. Because there's nothi ... More >>

The Strange Stuff: Cinemania at Tribeca 2011

Study Finds 83% of Subway Announcements Are Clear and Accurate, But Uh: No

​A new survey by the Straphangers Campaign claims that 83% of subway announcements, including routes, stations and transfer options, are both clear and accurate, making it seem instantly to anyone who has ever been on the subway that something is wrong with this study. New trains with pre-reco ... More >>

Dirty and Offensive Christmas Songs!

​The only way I can deal with the annual onslaught of cheery and/or solemn Christmas songs is to make up filthy, raucous versions of them and make those the official hymns of the season. It's painfully immature, for sure, but it helps cut through the cheap sentiment and relentless faux glee t ... 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 >>

This Year's Letters to Santa Kind of a Buzz Kill

​We can blame the recession for a lot of things, but one of the lesser expected ramifications is that children are no longer writing their id-driven "ME ME ME!" missives requiring flat-screen plasmas and XBoxes and Shetland ponies from the man at the North Pole. Now, they're asking for educati ... More >>

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

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

Santa Goes Dark in Rare Exports

Winter Guide: Lesley Manville Is the Toast of Mike Leigh's Latest Film, Another Year

A guide to winter movie releases

Santa Claus is Coming to Town, or at Least to Rolf's

EV GrieveLights! Glitter! Reindeer! ​ If the cheftastic display at Barneys has kindled the holiday spirit within, get thee to Rolf's, the restaurant that doesn't know the meaning of holding back when it comes to Christmas.

The Doorman Has the Dirt: NYC Real Estate's X-Factor

​Doormen: a crucial role in the makeup of our metropolis for many, many people, not just the rich assholes! Many people in New York City spanning the lower-middle to the upper-upper classes of this city have doormen, whose influence is profound on both the residents, the management, and the re ... More >>

NYC Parents Now Outsourcing the Tooth Fairy

​When I was a little kid, I had a little tooth-shaped pillow with a pocket on it. When I lost a tooth, I'd put it in the pocket, go to sleep, and lo and behold, come morning there would be a dollar instead of the tooth! To this day I have no idea how my mom pulled that off without waking me up ... More >>

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Nudity Seriously Freaking People Out

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 23, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 15 Scenes by Howard Smith VALERIE [SOLANAS] was back in court last Friday. This time to find out whether the court psychiatric clinic report agreed with Mattawan State Hospital's verdict when it release ... More >>

The Fourth Annual Village Voice Readers' Film Poll -- The Best Films of 1967!

"We rob banks."​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 17 Films by Andrew Sarris The readers of The Village Voice have responded in unprecedented numbers to the fourth annual poll of ten-best lists. For the record, the previous winners are "D ... More >>

Q&A with Jeffrey Solomon (Santa Claus Is Coming Out): on GLSEN and Gay Santa

​This morning's Times rounds up some of the further-out holiday-themed entertainments playing in New York now ("Come On, Santa, Put Your Clothes Back On"). Among these is Jeffrey Solomon's Santa Claus is Coming Out at The Kirk on Theater Row, in which Santa is gay, a little questioning kid wan ... More >>

Sidewalk Santas aren't coming to town

​Volunteers of America's 109-year-old Sidewalk Santa program is taking place online for the second year this christmas. The non-profit VOA says they can't afford to pay and administer the formerly homeless men who traditionally dressed as Santa Claus and rang bells by chimney-shaped donation b ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: The War on All-Year Christmas

Happy holidays, gabachos and wabs!

Tina Fey Dissed Me and Probably Doesn't Even Know It

Be My Oswald

'The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'

Holiday Bargain Shopping With La Dolce Musto

. . . And to All Some Good Nights

Festive fun that's both naughty and nice

Naughty & Nice

Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive

God Is My Co-Pilot

Unvarnished and unhinged gospel music, from 1902 to 1960

Music

Hot for Santa

A brief but startling history of the chocolate Santa Claus

Escape Claus

Horoscope

A Murray Murray Christmas!

Cheap Cheer

Horoscope

Holiday Happenings

Eddie Goes to Radio City

The Loophole Clause

On the Street With a 12-Step Santa

Song of My Elf

One-Bedroom Apartment in Six-Story Tenement