Christmas

Looking for a simple holiday treat recipe? Then consider these Santa Hat Brownies, which are made from ready-to-bake brownie mix, vanilla-mascarpone buttercream and strawberries. Ingenious! (And probably very yummy.)

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Okay, so this isn’t really Kristen Stewart, star of the ‘Twilight’ series. But the fake Kristen Stewart in this funny sketch from the folks at Barely Political reminds us not to let the hustle and bustle of consumerism distract us from remembering the true meaning of Christmas.

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Disney may not be making the case of the stolen, inflatable Santa into a Christmas Special any time soon, but this holiday story does have a happy ending.

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The people of Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg, Ontario take Christmas very seriously and routinely dress their town in the finest holiday regalia. This dazzling Christmas display is no exception.

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Going to the mall at this time of year is enough to cause anyone to lose their minds. The screaming little kids, the rude shoppers, the rented elves. It’s enough to make you wish you’d just stayed home and boycotted the holidays altogether.

But wait! Imagine you’re on one of those hellish expeditions and you run across a guy wearing an iPod, joyfully lip-syncing and dancing and completely ignoring what are sure to be the slack-jawed stares from those around him. Wouldn’t that make your day a little brighter? Come on, admit it. It would. Even if you think he’s utterly certifiable.

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Theresa Lynn Warner, 40, her 39-year-old fiancé, Christopher Damaio and Warner’s 17-year-old son were busted this week just outside Pittsburgh with a van full of shoplifted toys they planned to sell on eBay or elsewhere — $35,000 worth of loot in all. Ho-Ho-Holy holiday shopping list, that’s a lot of stolen merchandise!

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To complete AT-AT week at The FW, we offer up this gingerbread version of the ‘Star Wars’ favorite, which is on display at the Discovery Museum in California.

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Ever since Virginia O’Hanlon wrote The New York Sun asking if Santa Claus was real, the media has treated the existence of the jolly old elf as sacred. Until now.

During a live broadcast on Tuesday, Robin Robinson of Fox News Chicago loudly proclaimed there is no Santa. What a Scrooge!

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