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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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holiday stories: 58 news summaries

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Hawaii Tries in Vain to Cash In on Obama Fame

Obama tour operators say business is slow


Dec 23, 08 4:04 AM CST
(Newser) - The Hawaii tourist trade is doing its best to spin some dollars out of Obamania, Politico reports. Tour companies are hyping visits to the president-elect's old Honolulu neighborhood, and the Baskin-Robbins where Obama worked as a teen is selling a new "Swirl of Change" flavor: chocolate, caramel, and nuts... More »

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Barack Obama • tourism • Hawaii • Honolulu • holiday • President Obama

Hawaii Rolls Out Red Carpet for Obamas

State's fave son arrives for a holiday break before the move to DC

Dec 21, 08 7:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Hawaii bid aloha to the Obamas as they arrived yesterday for a holiday break in a beach-side estate about half an hour from Honolulu, the Honolulu Advertiser reports. Residents of the quiet neighborhood lined the block with beach chairs and waved as Obama’s motorcade rolled by yesterday. “We... More »

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Michelle Obama • Hawaii • holiday • vacation home • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • President Obama

 Physics Fuels Santa's Magic 

Nanotechnology, space-time distortions enable Christmas miracles

Dec 15, 08 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - New research has shed light on the amazing ability of Santa Claus to deliver presents to children around the world in a single night, Reuters reports. Santa is able to distort the space-time continuum, says a North Carolina State expert: "He understands that you can stretch time, compress space... More »

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humor • physics • holiday • Christmas • gift • Santa Claus • nanotechnolgy

 First Dog Releases Last Video 

Olympic medalists Phelps, Liukin guest-star in 2008 'Barney Cam'

Dec 15, 08 2:42 PM CST
(Newser) - The White House released its final “Barney Cam” Christmas video today, continuing the adventures of the first dog, the AP reports. This year, the Bushes’ terrier dreams of representing America as an Olympic pole-vaulter and swimmer before clinching a US victory in the Ryder Cup. After waking, Barney decks... More »

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Bush administration • YouTube • Michael Phelps • holiday • Christmas • George W. Bush • Olympics • Nastia Liukin • Barney

 A Christmas Story at 25:
 Stealth Classic 

Industry born on collectors items, museum, and conference

Dec 14, 08 7:42 PM CST
(Newser) - After 25 years, devotees of A Christmas Story and its wacky realism still tune in to regular holiday showings, including an annual 24-hour marathon on Christmas Day. Just as Star Trek has Trekkies, A Christmas Story has Ralphies, named after Ralphie Parker, a 9-year-old desperate for a BB gun. CNN ... More »

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comedy • holiday • fans • movies • Christmas Day • A Christmas Story

(Newser) - A small, mostly black county in Alabama that delivered Barack Obama 70% of the vote has declared the second Monday of November “Barack Obama Day,” the AP reports. The state itself went convincingly for John McCain, but Perry County wanted to make a point about opportunity and the... More »

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Barack Obama • Alabama • holiday • county government • President Obama • Perry County • Barack Obama Day


 Obamas Off to Hawaii for Xmas 

Islands are favorite getaway for president-elect

Dec 2, 08 11:59 AM CST
(Newser) - The Obama family will head to Hawaii for Christmas and New Year’s this year—and possibly every presidential year afterward, the Atlantic reports. That “would please the press corps, the Secret Service, WHCA and the locals to no end,” blogs Marc Ambinder, "though it must be... More »

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Michelle Obama • vacation • Hawaii • holiday • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • President Obama • Obama family

Christmases Chokes Australia at Box Office
 

Comedy tops box office, curbing Twilight sensation

Nov 30, 08 5:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Four Christmases iced the competition over the long Thanksgiving weekend and raked in $46.7 million, Variety reports. Box office numbers stayed strong overall—up 2% to 3% over last year's holiday—as Twilight ($39.5 million), Bolt ($36 million), and Quantum of Solace ($28.1 million) filled out the... More »

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box office • holiday • weekend • ticket sales • movie theaters • Four Christmases

Just in Time for
Holidays: No Job

Families struggle to save traditions on Tiny Tim budgets

Nov 30, 08 5:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Few things ruin the holidays like losing a job. Yet that's what's happening to thousands of Americans just as they were planning to treat friends and families to gifts and holiday gatherings. The turnaround is excruciating as families struggle to save traditions on extremely tight budgets, reports the New York ... More »

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big gifts • holiday • Christmas • school holidays • Hanukkah • gift • holiday depression • financial crisis • chanukah

 Guess Where A-Rod's 
 Spending Thanksgiving? 

Wife blasts his decision to ditch kids

Nov 25, 08 6:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez will be spending the holiday with family—just not his own, the New York Post reports. The Yankee slugger’s wife told a friend, “My soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna.” Cynthia went on to describe the singer in... More »

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Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • celebrity • holiday • Thanksgiving • Madonna • David Banda • Lourdes Leon • Rocco Ritchie

Airfares Dip
on Last-Minute
Holiday Trips

Ugly economy pushes demand down, along with price of fuel

Nov 24, 08 12:14 PM CST
(Newser) - With many consumers too concerned about their wallets to make pricey trips, airlines are, for the first time in memory, lowering prices before the holidays, the Chicago Tribune reports. The reversal of convention is allowing late buyers to scrounge tickets for as much as $200 less than travelers who locked... More »

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airline industry • air travel • holiday • airfare • oil price • discounts • financial crisis

Flight Delays Decline Ahead
of Holidays

Feds' new rules, fewer planes in air keep travelers moving

Nov 24, 08 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - While flights will be packed during the Thanksgiving travel week, travelers can at least look forward to fewer delays, USA Today reports. Delays have plummeted this fall amid troubled airlines’ reduced flight schedules and government measures to reduce New York air traffic. In early September, flights were over 15 minutes... More »

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flights • holiday • airline delays • Thanksgiving travel • flight delays

OPINION

 Learn to Live With Less 

Couple pledged to buy only necessities for 12 months

Nov 23, 08 12:44 PM CST
(Newser) - Light wallets may seem particularly woeful around the holidays, when cheer often comes with a retail pricetag. But shopping binges, while they may be satisfying, ultimately just add to overconsumption problems worldwide, Judith Levine writes in the Washington Post. So she and her partner tried something new: They went a... More »

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holiday • holiday shopping • retail shopping • economy • financial crisis

Even Santa's Getting
the Old Heave-Ho-Ho-Ho

Gigs cut, pay slashed, big elf not so jolly

Nov 23, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - St. Nick is already doing some serious belt-tightening in New York City as cash-strapped stores and malls head into the not-so-jolly season, thanks to the economy. Far fewer jobs and slashed pay rates are leaving wanna-be Santas with little clause to celebrate. More »

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holiday • Christmas • Santa Claus • This Christmas • financial crisis • holiday season • Christmas shopping

WINE REVIEW

 How to Wine as 
 You Dine on Turkey 

A panel of the Times' best and brightest drinks a bunch so you don't have to

Nov 12, 08 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - With all the potential stress implicit in the Thanksgiving family feast, wine is one arena that shouldn't leave the host sweating bullets, writes Eric Asimov in the New York Times. The rules "couldn't be simpler": Like the food, Thanksgiving wine selection is all about "versatility and plentitude,"... More »

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New York Times • alcohol • wine • red wine • holiday • Thanksgiving • Eric Asimov

If Twilight Bites, So Will Holiday Box Office

Season's hopes on vampire's back

Nov 8, 08 3:23 PM CST
(Newser) - The holiday season’s best hope for a blockbuster is a teen vampire romance flick from an obscure studio, MarketWatch reports. With Harry Potter pushed to next summer, this holiday season is pretty much bereft of a proven franchise. But Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s mega-selling books, has... More »

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box office • holiday • movies • Twilight

 Tomorrow's 
 Obama Day 
 in Kenya 

Step-grandmother, others hit streets to celebrate

Nov 5, 08 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Kenya has declared tomorrow a national holiday to honor Barack Obama’s presidential victory, the BBC reports. “We the Kenyan people are immensely proud of your Kenyan roots,” President Mwai Kibaki said. Obama’s father was Kenyan; his step-grandmother danced and cheered outside her home after the family... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • holiday • Election 2008 • President Obama

What Are You
 Doing Here,
Fat Man?!

Strategies for coping with the too-early holiday season

Nov 1, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Halloween is over, and you know what that means: It’s Christmas. The annoyingly early holiday cheer is already descending upon us. Jezebel provides some tips for surviving the X-mas blitzkrieg:
  • Be a Halloween extender: If your neighbors can keep Christmas lights up until February, why can’t you
... More »

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holiday • Christmas • Halloween • holiday depression

Holy Season for Two Faiths Intersects in Jerusalem

Jewish new year coincides with Muslim month of Ramadan in city special to both

Sep 29, 08 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - This year’s intersection of Jewish new-year holidays and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan—a rarity due to Islam’s changing calendar—is felt particularly keenly in Jerusalem, a sacred city for both religions, Ethan Bronner notes in the New York Times. Night has become “a kind of... More »

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Israel • Islam • Jews • Muslims • Jerusalem • Judaism • Islamic Sharia law • holiday • Ramadan • Dome of the Rock • lunar new year • Western Wall • Rosh Hashanah

Talk Like a Pirate Today, Matey, Or Walk the Plank!

You know you were waiting for an excuse to get your Jolly Roger on

Sep 19, 08 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ahoy, matey! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, the Detroit Free Press reports—though the good fortune of falling on a Friday has some wannabe swashbucklers set for a weekend of buccaneering behavior. Initially a joke between two friends, the holiday got national exposure when Dave Barry mentioned... More »

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holiday • pirates • International Talk Like a Pirate Day • Dave Barry

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