WWBLS 107.5 and Hot 97 are gearing up to host the biggest holiday party in New York City. On December 19, the two stations will celebrate the season by bringing some big names to Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. So far, the lineup includes LL Cool J featuring DJ Z-Trip, Run-DMC and Lecrae.
According to the press release, “Christmas in Brooklyn” is for everyone in the family. “We’re in full holiday spirit mode and look forward to providing our listeners with the chance to see their favorite artist
LeBron James and Kobe Bryant ran their mouths while they jogged downcourt, not quite making eye contact during an unpleasant conversation in the closing minutes."Just asked him what he got for Christmas," James said.
Although the two superstars wouldn't reveal what angry words they exchanged, it wasn't tough to pick out a few statements Saturday. While Kobe and the Los Angeles Lakers got a disturbing first look at the Miami Heat, LeBron got the last word at Staples Center yet again.
James had 2
AP – Iraqi security force soldiers stand guard during a mass at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad, Iraq, …KIRKUK, Iraq – Iraqi Christians on Wednesday called off Christmas festivities across the country as al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on a beleaguered community still terrified from a bloody siege at a Baghdad church two months earlier.
A council representing Christian denominations across Iraq advised its followers to cancel public Christmas celebrations out of conc
LOS ANGELES – Phil Jackson says humbug to the NBA's Christmas schedule.
The 11-time NBA champion coach restated his longtime opposition to Christmas games Tuesday night before his Los Angeles Lakers faced the Milwaukee Bucks in their final tuneup before Saturday's visit from theMiami Heat.
"It's like Christian holidays don't mean to them anything any more," Jackson said. "Just go out and play and entertain the TV. It's really weird, but it is what it is. We have to go to work and make the best o
The Origins of Christmas
The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ," or, as it came to be shortened, "Christ-Mass." This term came to the modern world from the Roman Catholic Church.
"Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church . . . The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt." "Pagan customs centering around the January calends [the pagan calendar] gravitated to Christmas."--Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 ed., article: "Christmas."
Origen, an early Catholic writer, said this a
Veneration of the Virgin and Child
This may come as a stretch to some, but the nativity’s primary imagery, the “Madonna and Child” is actually worship of the “heavenly mother”, the goddess Cybele (also Semiramis and Tammuz). Don’t you find it odd that the United States Government wants God’s name out of the Pledge of Allegiance and other forms of law; but they happily celebrate Christmas, take Sunday’s off, and make a postage stamp for the “Madonna and Child”?
The cult of the Virgin Mary arose i
SO, WHEN WAS JESUS REALLY BORN?
By now you might guess it wasn’t December 25th. You now know that the 25th of December is the time of the Winter Solstice and is the claimed birth date of all the major pagan deities. Now, looking to Israeli meteorologists, they actually tracked December weather patterns for many years and concluded that the climate in Israel has been essentially constant for at least the last 2,000 years. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bi
