Tomorrow and Sunday: at 2 p.m., "The Victorian Christmas" visits sites associated with New York's role in the evolution of the holiday celebration; at 5 15 p.m., "Historic Greenwich Village Taverns".
Roadside attractions had certain themes that would have been familiar to children of that era: Western-oriented spots like Frontier Town, which still lives on in Berlin, Md., or Christmas-themed sites like Santa's Workshop, an amusement park in North Pole, N.Y.
WITH just five minutes to takeoff, the young man across the aisle on the Baltimore-bound flight whipped out his cellphone and began a hurried and boisterous conversation, explaining the fine points of marketing his new Christmas-gift Web site to an unseen underling.
On the world stage, though, Christmas Island is known as the site of Australia's main offshore processing centre for asylum-seekers.
In contrast, in the west, Cape Sorell yielded three types, and Togari North-Christmas Hills yielded six, but the other seven sites all had at least eight MHC types, and West Pencil Pine had 15 types.
You can hear it in heavy rotation on Christmas-music radio stations or see the performance on Internet video sites.
The Department of Sanitation will also pick up Christmas trees left curbside from Jan . 6to 15. Residents can call 311 for site locations and drop-off times.
Protect your presents Social media If you are going away this Christmas, don't advertise this to burglars on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media site.
Saving Christmas is also only one of two films last year to score a zero rating on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
A new production, for the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, moves the Christmas-season classic to the site of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
