Writer Jean Shepherd and director Bob Clark’s 1983 yuletide satire, a modest box-office hit when the perpetually beleaguered MGM studio needed one, has since spawned a rabid following that has entailed 24-hour cable-TV marathon showings and a floorboards spinoff that is the current holiday attraction at Syracuse Stage.

It wasn’t quite a day on the Jersey Shore, yet Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi somehow made the best of the situation (get it?) when she barnstormed the Lava dance club at Verona’s Turning Stone Resort and Casino on Nov. 28

As Americans increasingly seek healthier holiday eating habits while dealing with tighter budgets, cooking and eating at home become more attractive than ever.

On Saturday, Nov. 6, and Sunday. Nov. 7, the Zen Center of Syracuse, 266 W. Seneca Turnpike, will host the ninth annual Tibetan rug sale on behalf of Jewel Heart, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based not-for-profit organization. Jewel Heart is supported locally by acupuncturist and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism Jennifer Waters.

Political assassinations, the civil rights movement, the Beatles and Rolling Stones, the moon shot, Woodstock�all popular culture watersheds that occurred in one exhilarating, exhausting and enduring decade, the 1960s.

She�s been in the music biz since her wonder years and at age 28 still has a few more productive decades ahead of her, so catching LeAnn Rimes.

The annual dinner theater show from the Onondaga Hillplayers.

The program�s theme is �Blessings Abound� and musical selections will range from jazz standards to inspirational favorites, to hymns, all arranged in the jazz style..

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