Christmas - - Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride
BBC - It's rare you'll find a life-affirming film about the walking dead, and even less so one that's aimed at children, but Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is just that. creative team who brought you The Nightmare Before Christmas have crafted a fairytale that's both refreshingly original

The show's about to close down just as it gets going
Observer - Make the most of this afternoon's action in the Premiership, says Michael Aylwin So, the Premiership is properly up and running now. see of an uncompromised Premiership this side of Christmas.For the next two weeks we're introduced to the in the build-up to Christmas, and then and only then do

REVIEW: 'Absurd' a Comedy About Christmas
AP via Newsday - NEW YORK -- Forget visions of sugar plums, chestnuts roasting on an open fire or Santa Claus (make that St. Nick) coming to town. Nick) coming to town. Christmas is at hand, and in Alan Ayckbourn's 'Absurd Person Singular,' that means thoughts of

Charity proves it's never too early to think about Christmas
The Daily Tribune News - too early to think about Christmas Frances Phillips Features Editor Published Melissa Porter never stops thinking about Christmas. As president of the Bartow Christmas Coalition

Career switch to happy Witch
Arizona Republic - From Halloween through Christmas, his business is a bubbling caldron of activity that would drive peach, cherry, strawberry rhubarb. Then, for Christmas, 'it's all cookies,' he says

Christmas - - Intel Misses Expectations With 3Q Profit

Intel Misses Expectations With 3Q Profit
AP via Newsday - In September, the Santa Clara-based company had tightened its revenue forecasts to between $9.8 billion and $10 billion

Helpers prepare for Santa's Exchange
Southwest Sun - Santa's sleigh is already on its way for the underprivileged children of Fort Bend County. Santa's elves are hard at work collecting toys and donations for this worthwhile cause. Helpers prepare for Santa's Exchange 10/18/2005Email to a friend Voice your opinion Printer-friendly Ken

Vivian Brunner, 79; Ran Popcorn Marionettes With Husband
Los Angeles Times - In one show in Santa Ana in 1977, they presented their musical version of 'Ben Franklin's Dream' with 19 marionettes not

Santa Claus: The Movie
Chicago Sun-Times - Superman movies would move on to an epic about Santa Claus. But in a way it makes sense. Both Superman and Santa are legendary superheroes, able to cure our pains

Big Brother lurking in WiFi, mobile services
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Christmas - - Fred gives festive flourish

Fred gives festive flourish
Dumfries and Galloway Standard - Fred gives festive flourish Oct 14 2005 RADIO and TV star, Fred MacAulay (above) teamed up with the Standard this week to boost the 2005 Christmas Toy Appeal. He said: The Standard Christmas Toy Appeal is a really worthwhile cause

Warehouse sales gear up
Calgary Sun - It's official -- with the arrival of the Samko and Miko toy warehouse flyer, you know Christmas toy shopping has arrived

Flow Of Katrina Donations Continues
Billboard - By Jonathan Cohen. October 04, 2005, 11:30 AM ET Flow Of Katrina Donations Continues By Clover Hope, N.Y. phoning more than 500 fans and is planning a musical event and Christmas toy drive for Katrina survivors in New Orleans

Barbie dolled up to top Christmas toy wish list
Edinburgh Evening News - THE Crazy Frog and Barbie are being tipped to rub shoulders on children's Christmas lists this year by Britain's toy sellers.

Toy industry may face lean holiday
SignOn San Diego - of higher gasoline prices and other effects of Hurricane Katrina, she plans to cut her Christmas toy spending in half

Christmas - - John McCabe

John McCabe
Telegraph - In 1953 McCabe was living at Stratford-on-Avon and studying for a PhD in English at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham University. Affectionate Biography (1961), 'rather like discovering that Santa Claus really existed'. McCabe struck up a friendship

Santa's Ind. home to get makeover
Indianapolis Star - Santa's Ind. home to get makeover Visit us today for your best deal on a new or 150 off 2005 model 877-248-1086 Associated Press SANTA CLAUS, Ind

Aragon wins $150,000 Oak Tree Derby at Santa Anita
San Francisco Chronicle - (10-15) 18:29 PDT Arcadia, Calif. ( AP) -- Aragorn held off Eastern Sand by a nose Saturday to win the $150,000 Oak Tree Derby at Santa Anita Park.

Kara McGuire: Latest fad: Tightening those belts
Star Tribune - even carved a pumpkin yet and you're supposed to be thinking about Santa? But if you're feeling a little more dread than

Judge to decide fate of soldier's remains
Seattle Post Intelligencer - SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- The final resting place of a 28-year-old soldier killed in Iraq is now in the hands of a judge who said he would have preferred the bitterly divided family could have resolved the matter without him. ' heard closing arguments Wednesday in Santa Cruz County Superior Court by attorneys

Storm Clouds Hanging Over Republicans
Los Angeles Times - Randy 'Duke' Cunningham of Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego County, decided to retire rather than contend with ethical

Christmas - - Welsch: These kids always rising and shining

Welsch: These kids always rising and shining
Bozeman Daily Chronicle - comes nearly every day, 50 weeks of the year.And Santa Claus appears daily, too, though to most at the Valley Ice Garden

San Marcos club giving a boost to family
North County Times - The Marine, recently returned from Iraq, is a single father with two children and just enough money to make ends meet. Christmas gifts didn't fit in the budget. Christmas gifts didn't fit in the budget. Santa Claus will be coming to Thursday's luncheon at the Lake San Marcos

If it's October, it must be time for Mr. Pumpkin
MetroWest Daily News - By Q & ASunday, October 16, 2005Don't tell anybody, but Alan Arrandale leads a double life in the fall. By weekday, he is a Northborough resident and salesman for a window and vinyl siding company. Pumpkin came because -- Barber's has always had a very good Santa Claus, and so Mr. Pumpkin came .It was a natural. Santa Claus knows Mr. Pumpkin and the Easter Bunny

By paddle and pedal
SignOn San Diego - SCOTT LINNETT / Union-Tribune Renata Chlumska has paddled from Seattle to San Diego. motorcycle 7,000 miles from India to Sweden and flew to the North Pole. ' I've seen Santa Claus,' jokes Renata Chlumska

Single-car accident leaves three injured
Evansville Courier - Three people were still being treated Saturday night at Methodist Hospital after a one-vehicle wreck on the Breathitt Parkway around 6:30 p.m. in Henderson County. Magdalena Byers, 47, Evansville; Cheryl Marshall, 43, Santa Claus, Ind.; and Whitney Marshall, 21, Santa Claus, Ind.

Sex, Love & Secrets should stay hidden
USA Today - between men and penguins and told that 'be it Santa Claus, Twinkies, infidelity or murder, all humans keep secrets