Christmas Events 2010

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>> Dave Grohl and his fellow friends in the war against Foo are back.

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>> Jingle bang to Antiquiet's Unholy Night, a heavy metal Christmas mixtape.

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>> Black Francis talks about scoring the 1920 silent film The Golem: How He Came Into The World.

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A German auteur's take on a holiday classic?

A duet of comedy duos doing Drummer Boy duets?

Charlie Brown Christmas mash-ups?

You know it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas whe friends start decking your Facebook walls with posts of their favorite viral Christmas links.

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Think "Christmas movie" and you'll probably hark back to such well-roasted chestnuts as It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas. With his new book Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, film critic Alonso Duralde reveals that how yuletide cinema can also include the witty historical romance The...

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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day events around Atlanta:

Christmas Eve:

Atlanta Grill: Four-course dinner for $58 without wine pairings, $80 with wine pairings. 181
Peachtree St. 404-659-0400. www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Atlanta/Dining/AtlantaGrill.

Aqua blue: Offering a three-course holiday menu priced at $25 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve only. The Roswell...

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• Every Christmas Story Ever Told

CL's Chante Lagon and Curt Holman discuss two Christmas-themed plays currently playing. A Christmas Survival Guide playing at Stage Door Players, and Every Christmas Story Ever Told playing at Actor's Express.

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D.R.E.S. Tha Beatnik brings in the big guns to light it up at Lenny's recent closing party. The Dec. 11 show was advertised as the venue's last.

Atlanta playhouses let Linus Van Pelt do the heavy lifting this holiday season. Both Stage Door Players' A Christmas Survival Guide and Actor's Express's Every Christmas Story Ever Told effectively stop in their tracks to recreate Linus' quotation of the Book of Luke from "A Charlie Brown Christmas." In both plays, an actor asks, "Lights, please?" before harking back to the first noel.

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UPDATED with our favorite Christmas Fail stories from Facebook after the jump.

Christmas dinners that end with trips to the emergency room. Office holiday revelers who flagrantly misuse mistletoe. The tragic combination of kids, incontinence and a department store Santa Claus. For every way to celebrate the December holidays, there are ways for those festivities to blow up in...

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While you were winding down your Monday afternoon, Gwinnett County Police and Drug Enforcement Agency agents wearing Hazmat suits seized more than 980 pounds of methamphetamine — with an estimated street value of more than $44 million — from a Norcross home.

Officials say yesterday's find is possibly one of the largest meth confiscations in U.S. history. Meth...