Christmas

Last year, a Dallas restaurant-bar gained internet infamy for banning Mariah Carey's holiday fave, “All I Want for Christmas is You." Now the song's topping the charts again — for the fourth year in a row.

"One of the funniest responses I ever got was a kid that said, 'Well, no cookies, we're leaving out Cheetos and a beer.' I look up and there's Dad smiling real broadly. I know who's going to get the Cheetos and the beer."

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Santa is in short supply this year, according to Mitch Allen, founder and head elf at HireSanta.com, the Fort Worth company that operates as a clearing house for many Santas nationwide.

The city co-sponsored a parade with the Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance each year. But then the organization changed its entry rules, deciding participants must be "consistent with traditional biblical and family values" — a decision many felt excluded the city's LGBTQ community.

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A North Texas ministry is hosting a holiday feast this weekend for refugees from Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iran and other Arab-speaking countries.

Extreme weather and supply chain disruptions have reduced supplies of both real and artificial trees this season. American shoppers should expect to have fewer choices and pay up to 30% more for both types this Christmas, industry officials said.

The Trains at NorthPark exhibit has been a family tradition for 32 years and raises over $13 million for the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Families brought their little ones to experience the 1,600 feet of track rolling from coast to coast on opening day.

At Bonton Farms in south Dallas, old Christmas tree branches become animal feed, and another nonprofit turns what's left into walking canes.

Only a hundred or so people attended the service, and they wore masks and socially distanced. The Mass began two hours early so all could make it home before Italy's virus curfew.