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By | January 01, 0001

The Fourth Wise Man

Hoopleville
He didn't get much press.
By DAVID KISH | December 21, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

Crappy Christmas Cards

Big Fat Whale
We hope you don't receive any of these this holiday season.
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | December 13, 2011

Trinity Rep’s It’s a Wonderful Life

More comfort and joy
For theatergoers not sufficiently uplifted this holiday season by Trinity Repertory Company's production of A Christmas Carol , the troupe is presenting a second annual feel-good offering, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play , in the downstairs theater through December 31.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 14, 2011

Cirque Dreams gets seasonal at PPAC

An acrobatic Holidaze
There is plenty of color and spectacle for the little ones and dexterous skill for the big kids (aka adults), as Cirque Dreams Holidaze dazzles at the Providence Performing Arts Center through December 18.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 14, 2011

How the Gingrich Stole Christmas!

Hoopleville
A holiday hit on the Hallmark channel.
By DAVID KISH | December 14, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

We asked Occupy Boston protesters: What Is Your #OccupyXmas Wish?

This is what the holidays look like
Since the beginning of the Occupy movement, protesters have broadcast the #NeedsOfTheOccupiers through tweets, Google docs, and camp posters. But besides the bare necessities — food, blankets, first-aid supplies — what do the protesters really want?
By LIZ PELLY AND ARIEL SHEARER | December 06, 2011

Gifts for the 99%

Plaid tidings we bring to you and your kin
Plaid Friday has come and gone, but no time like the present to stick it to capitalism this holiday season.
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | December 08, 2011

Gadgets for both sides of the Occupy divide

Gearing up
Is Santa a one-percenter? Sometimes it seems that way.
By MIKE MILIARD | December 06, 2011

You know you need it

If you’re reading this, you’re the 99 percent. Here’s what people should get you — and what you should get all your friends.
There are a lot of things that the 99 percent need.
By JEFF INGLIS | December 07, 2011

Holiday treasure hunt

We search high and low for great gifts at thrift and secondhand shops
Is it trash or treasure? The editorial team here at the Portland Phoenix compiled this year's incarnation of our annual local gift guide by searching for diamonds in the rough.
By DEIRDRE FULTON, NICHOLAS SCHROEDER, AND JEFF INGLIS | December 07, 2011

Give the gift of beer: A suds-soaked shopping list

Bottles and cans and just clap your hands
We're working beer-related gifts in Bottles and Cans land. You like beer, yes? Chances are your friends like beer, yes? So give 'em some beer!
By LOU PAPINEAU | December 07, 2011

Deep tracks and minutiae for music lovers, rich and poor

Box-set match
Ah, box-set season, that time of year when you go to your nearest record store, looking for gifts for that special someone you know who would really appreciate a super-cool addition to their record collection.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 09, 2011

New: Old traditions

AIRE spins Christmas with a Celtic charm
The winter holidays' bells, lights, and trees are already upon us, and along with them the first of the holiday-themed shows.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 07, 2011

Good tidings from LePage

Gubernatorial Wishlist
In place of our usual monthly Gubernatorial Scorecard, we're looking at what Governor Paul LePage has been up to through the lens of the holiday season.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | December 07, 2011

Gifts for the 1%

Deck the halls with wretched excess
They say the best things in life are free. But you know what makes those things even better ? Swag!
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | December 08, 2011

Trinity’s compelling Christmas Carol

Comfort and joy
The more things stay the same, the more they change. At least that's the way they've been having it with Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company for 35 years.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | November 30, 2011

Shopping, simplified

Balls, pucks, and monster trucks
With the holidays, and their attendant sturm und drang , upon us again, I was thinking about sports news in the context of Thanksgiving.
By RICK WORMWOOD | November 30, 2011

Interview: John Waters shows you how to survive the holidays

Have yourself a fairy little Christmas
John Waters earned his lifetime 99-percenter cred the moment he had Divine eat dog shit in Pink Flamingos .
By ROB TURBOVSKY | December 08, 2011

Review: Arthur Christmas 3D

Sarah Smith's revisionist Santa Claus
The diametric opposite of the Antarctica-set Happy Feet Two , or at least geographically, Sarah Smith's revisionist Santa Claus tale still delivers the same kind of offbeat holiday animation.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 21, 2011

Need mead? Plus, Revival’s here and Lagunitas Sucks

Bottles and cans and just clap your hands
Pete Seeger sang, "We will pray just like the Druids/Drinking strange fermented fluids/Go dancing naked through the woods/They're good enough for me." Those "strange fermented fluids" were mead.
By LOU PAPINEAU | November 22, 2011