Christmas

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How to Make a Fast-Food Christmas Dinner

​Chick-fil-A this year marked the Christmas season with a peppermint milkshake, but it occurred to us the sandwich chain didn't fully appreciate how much fast food can contribute to a holiday meal. Here, a traditional holiday table set with a few of the dishes Americans love most.

Christmas Albums Suck, But We Like Choklate, So If You Have To Listen To One Holiday EP This Year, It Might As Well Be Her's

​Artist: Choklate Album: Fah La La La La The Christmas EP Label: MeMusic Release: out now So, Christmas albums as a whole are a pretty painful, right? With sickening levels of courtesy cheer and unironic well wishing. With it's six or seven recycled standards, Christmas music isn't really fer ... More >>

Holiday Film Guide 2011: The Multiplex Menagerie

​Artist: Choklate Album: Fah La La La La The Christmas EP Label: MeMusic Release: out now So, Christmas albums as a whole are a pretty painful, right? With sickening levels of courtesy cheer and unironic well wishing. With it's six or seven recycled standards, Christmas music isn't really fer ... More >>

Scheduling a Chinese Meal for Christmas

​I recently received an e-mail from a reporter asking whether I was free to discuss "the tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas Eve." (I wrote an academic article on the relationship between Jews and Chinese food, so fielding these queries is my own annual holiday tradition.) Christmas ... More >>

The Paring-Down of Prison Dinners

The incarcerated once enjoyed boundless holiday feasts. Not anymore.

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The incarcerated once enjoyed boundless holiday feasts. Not anymore.

Christmas Music Even a Grinch Can Love: The Best Local Holiday Music

​Normally, I am the grinchingest person who ever grinched. After Thanksgiving, I'm reluctant to even leave the house, knowing that every store, restaurant, and dentist's office will be playing the worst song of all time (for the record, it's "Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time." Or maybe ... More >>

Washington's Prisoners Get a Pie and Two Oranges for Christmas

​When a convicted killer, a burglar and an auto thief decided to escape from New Jersey's state prison in 1937, they carefully fashioned shovels from scrap metal and scrupulously stashed the dirt they excavated from an eight-foot tunnel that led beyond the prison's front gate. But the trio cho ... More >>

Pink Martini

​When a convicted killer, a burglar and an auto thief decided to escape from New Jersey's state prison in 1937, they carefully fashioned shovels from scrap metal and scrupulously stashed the dirt they excavated from an eight-foot tunnel that led beyond the prison's front gate. But the trio cho ... More >>

Occupy Pomplamoose!

America's most annoying band tours just in time to steal Christmas again.

"December Skies" Proves That Few Love The Christmas Season More Than Seattle's Wizdom

Nick FeldmanSuper Wiz Claus--a fusion of Nintendo's Super Mario, Santa Claus and Wizdom himself.​Some rappers are all about collecting cars and clothes, and others focus on stacking their paper, their women or their weed. And then there are the special ones, like local MC Wizdom, who love few ... More >>

Bothell Church with 90-Foot-Tall Christmas Star Fined for Not Having a Permit

​Upset that the Nativity scene just approved for the Olympia Capitol grounds hasn't brought the wrath of atheists and the counter-wrath of Bill O'Reilly? Furious that this year's "War on Christmas" has been more like a "War on Interesting Christmas News?" Well fret not, fear mongers, controver ... More >>

Food Allergies Take a Holiday (pt. 2)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ - Jen Christiansen/JupiterImages​Last Wednesday, Allergic to Food made mention of the recent estimates that 1 in every 133 Americans suffers from some kind of gluten sensitivity. Statistically speaking, this means that it is highly likely somebody at Christma ... More >>

The Hounds’ Holiday Howl

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ - Jen Christiansen/JupiterImages​Last Wednesday, Allergic to Food made mention of the recent estimates that 1 in every 133 Americans suffers from some kind of gluten sensitivity. Statistically speaking, this means that it is highly likely somebody at Christma ... More >>

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/ - Jen Christiansen/JupiterImages​Last Wednesday, Allergic to Food made mention of the recent estimates that 1 in every 133 Americans suffers from some kind of gluten sensitivity. Statistically speaking, this means that it is highly likely somebody at Christma ... More >>

"Amazon Gypsies" Converge on Kentucky Trailer Park in Search of Work (VIDEO)

​They're not what most people would picture as "migrant workers." They're mostly white, they have campers and RVs, toddlers and lap dogs--everything but steady, year-round jobs. But at a trailer park in Campbellsville, Ky., scores of these "Amazon Gypsies" come every year to plug their mobile ... More >>

The Hounds of the Wild Hunt's Two Depressing (But Local!) Favorite Christmas Carols

Few local bands are more of a riot on stage than the Hounds of the Wild Hunt (formerly and infamously known as the Whore Moans). The Hounds have a wickedly turbulent energy that always translates to a great time. When it comes to the holidays, though, things aren't so joyful. "Last year, Christm ... More >>

Food's Week That Was: Lots of Potatoes, Lettuce, Ice Cream, and Premium Beer

And don't forget about Reggae-muffins and Barry Maniloaf.

Opening Nights: A Tuna Christmas

Two actors play a cast of 22.

Short Stories Live

Two actors play a cast of 22.

Thieves Steal 20,000 Pounds of Pine Boughs From State-Owned Land, Just to Make Your Home More Festive

​If, one day, you're hiking through the Olympic Peninsula, staring at the rows of gorgeous evergreens, and you come across a stretch of dead, branchless trunks: go ahead and blame Christmas. Turns out thieves sometimes steal branches right off of trees in order to make those gorgeous pine boug ... More >>

Bad Santa

​If, one day, you're hiking through the Olympic Peninsula, staring at the rows of gorgeous evergreens, and you come across a stretch of dead, branchless trunks: go ahead and blame Christmas. Turns out thieves sometimes steal branches right off of trees in order to make those gorgeous pine boug ... More >>

Top Food Geek Christmas Gifts of 2010

The season of giving is upon us, and that means it's time to start Christmas shopping for the food geek in your life.  Let's face it: he (or she... but who are we kidding, it's a he) is hard to shop for.  He already owns 4 kinds of microplanes, he's got more cookbooks than Barnes & ... More >>

Alonso Duralde

The season of giving is upon us, and that means it's time to start Christmas shopping for the food geek in your life.  Let's face it: he (or she... but who are we kidding, it's a he) is hard to shop for.  He already owns 4 kinds of microplanes, he's got more cookbooks than Barnes & ... More >>

New Year, New Dog, New Furniture

Buckley the house-trained dog. Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. Check back on Monday when he writes about what's playing on his iPod.​For the last 10 years, my wife and I have dreamed and schemed and saved to remodel our 83 year-old Germanic Tudor house in Seattle. While ye ... More >>

Amazon's Supply Chain

When you’ve got the monopoly, you set the records.

Why the Amazon Kindle's Christmas Day Record Isn't That Impressive

This is what Christmas morning looked like for millions of new Kindle owners.​Tech writers stuck with the unenviable job of working this past holiday weekend were blessed with a last-minute gift from Jeff Bezos: On December 26th, Amazon issued a press release proudly trumpeting the fact that o ... More >>

A Soundtrack to Christmas Morning

Whether any of us like it or not, we are guaranteed to be subjected to hour upon hour of Christmas music every year around this time. Go out to pick up 2 things at the grocery store? Christmas music, pumping overhead. Hardware store? Same thing. Hell, even getting pho a couple times last week, I was ... More >>

Yule Fail

Whether any of us like it or not, we are guaranteed to be subjected to hour upon hour of Christmas music every year around this time. Go out to pick up 2 things at the grocery store? Christmas music, pumping overhead. Hardware store? Same thing. Hell, even getting pho a couple times last week, I was ... More >>

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Whether any of us like it or not, we are guaranteed to be subjected to hour upon hour of Christmas music every year around this time. Go out to pick up 2 things at the grocery store? Christmas music, pumping overhead. Hardware store? Same thing. Hell, even getting pho a couple times last week, I was ... More >>

White Christmas

Whether any of us like it or not, we are guaranteed to be subjected to hour upon hour of Christmas music every year around this time. Go out to pick up 2 things at the grocery store? Christmas music, pumping overhead. Hardware store? Same thing. Hell, even getting pho a couple times last week, I was ... More >>

Messiah Sing- and Play-Along

Whether any of us like it or not, we are guaranteed to be subjected to hour upon hour of Christmas music every year around this time. Go out to pick up 2 things at the grocery store? Christmas music, pumping overhead. Hardware store? Same thing. Hell, even getting pho a couple times last week, I was ... More >>

Christmas Eve Dinners: A Few Recommendations

credit: bastilleseattle.com​ Christmas Eve dinners seem fewer in number more this year, so if you're hoping on eating out tomorrow night, your best chance (fingers crossed) is to call RIGHT NOW, as reservations are in short supply. Three of the best holiday meals are detailed below.

The Paramount’s Christmas Spectacular

Get off the stage, Santa—bring back the Rockettes!

El Vez

Get off the stage, Santa—bring back the Rockettes!

Five Holiday Shows That Won’t Make You Retch

But which would be even better after a glass of hot buttered rum.

Attention Shoppers: Whine About Your Horrible Holiday Mall Experience and Risk Getting Brained by a Yule Log

Don't want to end up in this line? Then stay home.​In advance of the holiday shopping season, Consumer Reports asked its readers to name their biggest holiday shopping pet peeves. Not surprisingly, doing so made their readers come off as whiny, ignorant bastards. Bitching about crowded malls ... More >>

Attention Holiday Shoppers: Liquor Stores Now Open in Area Malls, Christmas Officially Comes Early

A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a (hic) goodnight​Pols in the state of Washington certainly talk a good game about being progressive, but never have their bona fides been so unimpeachable as now. Faced with a looming $9 billion budget shortfall through 2011, state officials looked to th ... More >>

Fremont Pub Crawl Shopping Spree

A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a (hic) goodnight​Pols in the state of Washington certainly talk a good game about being progressive, but never have their bona fides been so unimpeachable as now. Faced with a looming $9 billion budget shortfall through 2011, state officials looked to th ... More >>

Holiday Bizarre: A Jewish Christmas!

A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a (hic) goodnight​Pols in the state of Washington certainly talk a good game about being progressive, but never have their bona fides been so unimpeachable as now. Faced with a looming $9 billion budget shortfall through 2011, state officials looked to th ... More >>

A Christmas Carol

A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a (hic) goodnight​Pols in the state of Washington certainly talk a good game about being progressive, but never have their bona fides been so unimpeachable as now. Faced with a looming $9 billion budget shortfall through 2011, state officials looked to th ... More >>

The Santaland Diaries

An elf-deprecating monologue on Christmas misery

The Santaland Diaries

An elf-deprecating monologue on Christmas misery

Liberty Tattoo Toys for Tots Drive

I Heart Mom: at least she’ll never go out of style

A Christmas Memory

A tale of a Southern childhood

Silver Bellevue

The Eastside kicks off Christmas before Santa does

Food News

December 20 - 27, 2006 (expanded from print version).

The No-Fuss Feast

Whether you're a lazy boy or a hungry man, holiday meals are ready when you finally are.

Forget the Figgy Pudding

Eat Chinese on Christmas.