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We've put together a list of five fun family oriented activities that will create lasting memories for the kids without making a lasting impact on the pocket books for mom and dad.

While Legos usually pop up under Christmas trees during the holiday season, vistors to London’s St. Pancras Station can actually find themselves under a Christmas tree made of the colorful blocks.

Office holiday parties can be a blast, but, let’s face it, they’re most memorable when coworkers have had a little too much cheer in a bottle. Mmmm booze.

If you are looking to satisfy the sports nut in your life, we have a few suggestions that might make them take their mind off of their Fantasy NASCAR Team or wondering about the intricacies of the BCS algorithm.

The Starbucks Venti Egg Nog Latte has more calories than a Big Mac. We wondered what might happen if someone were to enjoy these two overindulgences…together. We wondered. We didn’t want to attempt it. Luckily, one of our writers did.

‘Tis the season for craft breweries to release their Christmas beers.

It wouldn’t be Christmas time without Christmas movies, and even though the same half-dozen or so holiday classics tend to be played again and again during December two Christmas films folks are still not sick of are ‘A Christmas Story’ and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’

You’ve spent the last two months agonizing over what to get your woman for Christmas, and now you’re ready for the big day. Good work. But, if you’re spending the holiday with her family, have you thought of what you’ll get them?

Holiday shopping is one step above torture but getting crappy presents is even worse.

If you’re looking for that extra special something to give your woman this holiday season, well, this is probably not the right list.

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.

Improv Everywhere‘s latest trick is a short musical about mall Santas in which the singers emerge, one by one, out of the crowd of shoppers in a New Jersey mall. Check out the fun ‘Mall Santa Musical’ below.

In what may be the most unique example of holiday spirit yet, a tank of electric eels powers a Christmas tree display at an aquarium in Japan.

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

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!

A herd of deer has ruined Christmas for a farm in Iowa by eating almost its entire crop of Christmas trees. The Grinch has nothing on these animals.

Art doesn't imitate life — it imitates television! Just check out these 10 TV-influenced handicrafts brought to you by some of the clever craftsellers at Etsy. We consider each a fitting homage to some of our favorite must-see TV. They also ...