Twisted tales of surviving the holiday season from Michael Musto, Ann Powers, Lynn Yaeger, Elizabeth Zimmer and a half dozen other Voice contributors
Originally published December 26, 1995
“I like Christmas music. I like the schlock and I like the religion. I like sentimental innocence and I like trancing out on the same standards sung and resung. So here, with what I sincerely hope is the right mix of Christian charity and obsessed consumerism, is a guide to some of the season's better music”
Originally published December 23, 1981
“We believe in selling peace … nobody says to give up Christianity because Christ died.”
Originally published December 25, 1969
“At Christmas time, non-Christians are omitted from the psychic life of this country, and although this omission may be relatively harmless, it’s anti-Jew, anti-Buddhist, and anti-Moslem.”
Originally published December 18, 1978
Who would have guessed there’d be so much sex and drugs?
December 23, 2017
Local residents say city action is needed to rein in drunken revelers, but the NYPD has refused to act
November 28, 2017