Every year for over four decades a black Santa in New Orleans nicknamed the 7th Ward Santa Claus makes photo rounds with kids for Christmas, so it turns out that generations of residents have distinct snapshots with him.
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This cool-ass Santa Claus in downtown Portland is a quote-unquote hipster with a man bun who wears a Drake-approved sweater, rides a bicycle and carries around a typewriter. Santa, baby. The only thing missing is a faux air of superiority and apathy.
A 68-year-old man who legally changed his name to Santa Claus has been elected to the city council in North Pole, Alaska. Congratulations, Santa Claus.
Normally, Santa Claus is decked out in an unflattering, matchy-matchy red-and-white suit that screams 1800s. The Santa of 2014 would nevuh. So Joint London reimagined St. Nick as a jolly man who spreads the joy of Christmas and also spends everythang on Alexander Wang.
Holiday anecdote: this year, Santa brought me a rape whistle.
Photoshopping and airbrushing in advertisements is so ubiquitous that it's expected. But every once in awhile, an ad comes along that is so cartoonishly reliant on, uh, turning a person into a cartoon that it makes the other ads look like Dove commercials. Well, we've found that ad — and it's hilarious. Just watch.…
Somebody call Fox News and make sure Megyn Kelly is sitting down, because the Germans have a bone to pick with Santa Claus, too.
Fox News' Megyn Kelly is pretty annoyed about Slate writer Aisha Harris' thoughtful essay "Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore." Her counter argument? Santa Claus — a fantasy person who doesn't actually exist — should be a white man because displaying him as otherwise would be an insult to his (again,…
Ah, folklore. The ancient art of storytelling in order to explain as-yet mysterious natural phenomena (i.e. basically every Greek myth). We know that Santa Claus was derived from the Old Dutch Sinterklaas, a folktale which in turn was based on the Greek Christian bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra in the 4th Century. In…
CATANIA, ITALY - DECEMBER 16: Players of Catania celebrate after the Serie A match between Calcio Catania and UC Sampdoria at Stadio Angelo Massimino on December 16, 2012 in Catania, Italy. (Photo by Maurizio Lagana/Getty Images)
Look, if you think your 10-year-old still believes in Santa Claus, you are stupid. Or maybe your kid is. Take your pick. Sorry (not sorry), but those are your only options. Because if your tween is telling you that they consider an overweight man circumnavigating the globe on a flying sled that somehow manages to fit…
Sugar Bear, the patriarch of Clan Boo Boo, almost ruined Christmas forever for some unlucky children by having a bit of a health scare during the family's Christmas toy drive outside the ancestral home in Georgia. You see, Sugar Bear usually plays the role of Santa Claus at these charity events, which entails him…
We no longer have to lie to kids about Santa Claus because it turns out the kind-hearted giant is alive and kicking in Bemidji, Minnesota. Joe Lueken, the 70-year-old owner of the two Lueken's Village Foods, is retiring and leaving his business to his 400 employees. Of course, my cynical brain went straight to: This…
While installing central heating in his Dublin, Ireland home, John Byrne found a letter to Santa Claus written in 1911 by two children, 10-year-old Hannah Howard and her 7-year-old brother Fred. The children placed the letter on a shelf inside their fireplace, and miraculously it remained there for decades and was…
Last week during a geography lesson at George W. Miller Elementary School in Nanuet, NY, children in Leatrice Ann Eng's class told her that they know about the North Pole because that's where Santa Claus lives. Deciding that it was high time the second-graders faced reality, Eng informed them that Santa isn't real and…
Fear of Santa: embarrassing for children, hilarious for onlookers. Both of these feelings are intensified if the child is you and the onlookers are your family, and Santa is your grandpa.
The big day—celebrating the Indians giving Jesus to the Pilgrims—is almost upon us! Work is nearly done, meaning it's time to relax with some Christmas movies! Which one is your favorite? And what does it say about you?
[India, December 20: An Indian girl checks out Christmas souvenirs at a shop, set up in a Muslim neighborhood of Bangalore. Christians in India make up just over 2 percent of its 1 billion population. Image via AP.]
[Washington, December 13: First Lady Michelle Obama reads "The Night Before Christmas" to patients at the Children's National Medical Center. Image via AP.]
