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Christmas traditions

A worker removes snow in Red Square with St. Basil's Cathedral and the mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in the background.

Recalling a final New Year’s Eve with Brezhnev

Culture

For author Anya von Bremzen, celebrating New Year’s Day means recalling her youth in a country that no longer exists – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. She looks back on that most Soviet of holidays with both resentment and nostalgia

A photo of Tam Duong's family during Lunar New Year in the early 1990s. Tam, on the right in the red dress, is from Los Angeles and now lives in Boston. Her parents are from Vietnam and Duong says she was confused as to why Santa never came to their home.

There’s nothing traditional about an immigrant Christmas

Belief
A group of carolers holding candles

This Christmas celebration involves music, tamales and piñatas

Lifestyle & Belief

Track Santa as he moves across the world

The World

Santa’s Green Car

The World

Christmas Wreaths

Increasingly, Christmas wreaths come from boughs clipped off growing evergreens. Cut the right way, the trees will produce for years; but if it’s done the wrong way, the tree is ruined. Catherine Winter of Minnesota Public Radio reports on fears the demand for wreaths may be outstripping a safe supply.

The World

Green up your holiday cleanup

Environment

Before stuffing the wrapping paper into a trash bag, or tossing your Christmas tree to the curb, listen to Meaghan O’Neill, the founder and editor of Treehugger.com, for suggestion to green up our Christmas cleanup.