Cultureteca 22.12.19
When Mariah Carey‘s fourth studio album and first holiday-themed album Merry Christmas came out in October 1994, it climbed to number three on the Billboard 200, but its standout song, ‘All I...
Cultureteca 27.12.15
The How and Why of 25 December: The Early History of Christmas It took three hundred years following the death of Christ before Christians began celebrating his birth on 25 December. The fathers...
Culturedarm’s Christmas Playlist 2015
You are all alone. You are not alone, but you’re ‘waiting for the day’, as The Beach Boys once sang, when it might be otherwise. You are surrounded, now cosseted, now buffeted...
Seven of the Best: Christmas Films
From roaring fires and spruced-up firs to bloody feet and frostbitten fingertips, and from run-down shacks and corporate tower blocks to leased apartments or homely fixer-uppers, Culturedarm’s selection of seven of the...
Christmas Music: Five Popular Songs & Five Alternative Albums
Elvis Presley leers atop my list of the five best popular Christmas recordings. ‘Blue Christmas’, written in 1948 by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, is ostensibly a rejoinder to ‘White Christmas’, with...