The God and Culture Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Here are the pulpit notes from my message on Sunday, November 30 at Calvary Baptist Church of Waterford: Rescuing Christmas from the Humanism of Charles Dickens from Colossians 2:6-15. Keep in mind these are the actual notes I preach from in the pulpit and I often expand on the points written here. You can hear the [...]
News Channel 9: Local News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Visitors to Skaneateles can step back into the time of Charles Dickens, as Victorian characters, horse drawn carriage rides and carolers are on hand every weekend until Christmas.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
A street market is held in a Cumbrian town in honour of the 19th Century writer Charles Dickens.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Wetlands in the Thames Estuary will be returned to the wilderness immortalised by Charles Dickens in plans to create a new national park in the area.
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Charles Dickens was a regular visitor to St George's Hall in Liverpool, and gave many of his famous readings in the elegant surroundings of The Concert Room. Last night that same room was the venue for a truly memorable event, when I launched Dancing for the Hangman and we announced the winners of the Mace & Jones short story competition to celebrate Liverpool's year as European Capital...
Bristol Active Social Club (Free subscription) | yesterday
An evening at The Tobacco Factory in Bedminster to see A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The date is Tuesday 23 rd December. The cost is £15. Time to be confirmed. If anyone is interested in attending can they please email me. All booking must be made by 10 th December. Anyone wishing to go after this date can book independently themselves. Many Thanks. Neil Spearey
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | yesterday
EAST GREENVILLE, PA -- The Grand's 4th Annual Christmas Tradition Show starts Friday, December 12th. This year our feature is Charles Dickens' "Scrooge"? starring Albert Finney in this 1970 award-winning version. We are also extremely excited to announce that our Historic 1923 Marr & Colton Theater Pipe Organ will premier to the public for the first time! The Grand is excited to be making...
Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Pictures, pictures, we’ve got pictures. The Flickr feed is here. Technorati Tags: A Christmas Carol,Charles Dickens,Wayside Theatre,The Ghost of Christmas Past
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you can imagine Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Rupert Murdoch standing in for Ebenezer Scrooge, you should find it ...
cbs4denver.com: Entertainment (Free subscription) | yesterday
... togetherness during an intensely uncertain year, says William J. Palmer, an English professor and Charles Dickens expert at Purdue University."The real reason that readers have always returned to `A Christmas Carol' year after year since the 1840s is that it provides a way of reinvigorating the spirit of Christmas that everyone wants to feel during this season, no matter how hard...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
... togetherness during an intensely uncertain year, says William J. Palmer, an English professor and Charles Dickens expert at Purdue University."The real reason that readers have always returned to 'A Christmas Carol' year after year since the 1840s is that it provides a way of reinvigorating the spirit of Christmas that everyone wants to feel during this season, no matter how hard...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | yesterday
This month's book selection from 5 Minutes For Books is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I read A Christmas Carol over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I haven't read this story since high school. I would be hard pressed to forget the storyline, what with all of the film adaptations out there, but I did find that there were small details that I had forgotten, especially in the physical...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
— Nintendo releases e-Book collection for DS : Move over Kindle, there's a new e-Reader in town—the Nintendo DS. Well ... not quite, but the game giant did announce the availability of " 100 Classic Book Collection " today. The game features classic tomes from Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Shakespeare, among others. DS owners flip the portable console on its side to read, use the...
Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Last night was one of those magical opening nights that all involved will remember for quite some time. We took Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to different places with our approach to telling the story and it worked wonders with...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
T hree great moments happened today in the history of magazines, each of which reflected the aspirations of the culture that spawned them. "Great Expectations:" Charles Dickens returns to the well of his childhood with the serialization of this novel in the pages of his magazine. Like "David Copperfield," published ten years before, "Expectations" follows the life of a boy, Pip, who grows...
