Christmas
TagCindy Lou Who is Beowulf
When I explain, at length, to people why The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a retelling of Beowulf, they always assume it’s some kind of in..
Five ways adulthood ruins Christmas
1. Eating an entire plate of Christmas cookies and then throwing them all up in the bushes outside is no longer considered cute.
There ..
Global warming: Which will be the last white Christmas?
This month, Minnesota is in suspense as to whether we’ll have a white Christmas. It’s a perennial question, even in the coldest state in t..
Meet the Gävlebocken, Sweden’s Christmas goat that dies a thousand deaths
The Gävlebocken, or the Gävle Goat, is a 42.5-foot-tall goat made entirely out of straw that resides in the town square of Gävle, Sweden f..
Take your family’s snow fetishist to “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”
For those who get high on the holidays, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is pure Maui Waui: there’s snow, there are patterned sweaters, the..
Guthrie Theater’s “Christmas Carol”: 40 years of figgy pudding
The critic Jan Swafford has pointed out that the genius of Bach’s music is apparent in its incorruptibility: arrange his Baroque compositi..
The Five Most Overrated Characters in “A Christmas Carol”
Fred’s wife
Mrs. Cratchit has good reason for being crabby about Scrooge: he’s abusing her husband and starving her family. Fred’s wife..