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White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life have a trivial connection: the child actress who plays Zuzu (Karolyn Grimes) in It's a Wonderful Life appears as Bing Crosby's child in another Irving Berlin musical, Blue Skies. Otherwise, the only thing the films have in common is that they are both holiday favorites - and the Paramount is showing them this week. Only the Jimmy Stewart film will show tonight, but both films will be offered Friday night.

The Paramount presents White ChristmasDecember 9th, 11th and 12thParamount Theater (713 Congress Avenue)$7 / $5 Children, Students and Seniors, 7pm-ish, Tickets available at the box office day of show[info]Being that we live in a heat belt where it is not uncommon to see kids raking leaves in tank tops and jorts on Christmas Day (seriously, we've done it...well, not the jorts part), dreaming of a white Christmas is something that we are intimately familiar...

Is anyone else tired of Christmas music yet, or is it just us? While eating Sushi one night last week we were forced to listen to Feliz Navidad. Give us a break. Some Bing Crosby or Sinatra music on Christmas Eve is fine, but when Sisqo has a holiday album out it's time to stop the madness. The point of this diatribe is to point out that it can be very hard to make...

I don’t think caroling is as popular as it should be. Aside from those two awesome dudes who apparently live at the 6th and Brazos bus stop, no one really sings their ass off in public anymore. Certainly not door-to-door.

It’s coming on Christmas, and boy do the cable channels know it. Here are some of our favorite holiday movies to watch for this weekend: TCM is starting their holiday fare tonight (Here’s their schedule for the weekend). One of our favorites from the bunch is Holiday Affair (9pm), with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh (aka the lady from Psycho). Leigh plays a widowed young mother who gets caught comparison shopping, and Robert Mitchum...