Trees in City Hall Park will be lighted and trimmed with fantastical decorations, including an all-Santa tree.
It was indeed a merry Christmas in Dubai, the tiny, striving Arab emirate that, year round, expresses something of the all-Santa-no-manger essence of the modern, secular holiday: lightheartedness, panting consumerism, glittering shallows and, for those who seek them out, depths as well.
O.K., then, maybe not all Santas are created equal.
There are actually some great finds among all those Santa-on-a-vaporetto snow globes and Bart Simpson glass paperweights.
The profusion of Christmas campaigns runs the risk of wearing out shoppers who may at some point tire of all the Santas and candy canes.
NO WHEELS AT ALL -- Santa Barbara, Calif., wants to reduce pollution, and to that end, it has put together the Santa Barbara Car Free Vacation Package.
After blocking, membranes were incubated overnight at 4°C with specific antibodies against hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), p16INK4a, p21Cip1, p27Kkip1, Sirt-1, Prdx-1 and bcl-2 (All from santa cruz).
A post shared by Justice Smith (@standup4justice) on Nov 9 , 2014at 10 08pm PST. 5. We finally get to see all the black Santas.
