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The Daily Free Press

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Boston’s official Santa Claus Jim Manning paints his eyebrows white to prepare for his 12th annual performance at the 2023 Boston Common Tree Lighting. MARGARET CORONA/DFP STAFF

Meet the jolly man behind the designer beard

Margaret Corona December 8, 2023
This holiday season, Jim Manning returns to the Boston Common Tree Lighting for his 12th performance as the city’s official Santa Claus.
Violent Night

BU alum’s new movie ‘Violent Night’ premieres this Friday

Ava Berger November 30, 2022
Pat Casey co-wrote Christmas action movie starring "Stranger Things" actor David Harbour.
Boston Holiday Tree Lighting, Michelle Wu

Mayor Michelle Wu celebrates annual Boston Holiday Tree Lighting

Talia Lissauer December 3, 2021
Cheers erupted as Mayor Wu, with the help of her two sons, flipped the switch to light a 60-year-old, 48-foot tree for the 80th annual Boston Holiday Tree Lighting.
easter bunny mascot holds a baby

Just call me the Easter Bunny

Katherine Wright April 7, 2021
This weekend, I was let in on the secret, ancient art of delivering candy eggs to children.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room with a View: Behind the scenes of consumerism in Hollywood

Antonia Lehnert March 15, 2021
“Eyes Wide Shut” and “Fight Club” show us that if we continue to consume material items in incredible quantities, sooner or later we will be the ones indefinitely consumed by them.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

Minority Report: Santa Claus exists, just not in the way you’d think

Lincoln Son Currie December 9, 2020
The Christmas season is perhaps the one time of the year we act a little nicer to each other. Using collective action to keep Santa Claus alive is the least we can do.
Lincoln Son Currie

Minority Report: The best way to spread Christmas cheer

Lincoln Son Currie November 16, 2020
Christmas music offers us the escape we need right now.
Kurt Russell stars in Netflix’s new holiday film “The Christmas Chronicles,” released Thursday.  COURTESY OF MICHAEL GIBSON/ NETFLIX

REVIEW: Netflix’s ‘The Christmas Chronicles’ follows formula for heartwarming Christmas story

Kaitlyn Riggio November 25, 2018
As Thanksgiving has already become a memory, Netflix is promoting its newest holiday original, “The Christmas Chronicles.”
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