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After a 12-year hiatus from the Orpheum Theatre, The Cure returned this past Tuesday evening as the headlining act for WBCN's XMAS Rave. The mood was subdued through both of the opening acts, but once Robert Smith and his mates took the stage, the crowd (who sold out the venue in record time) gelled in collective excitement. Fans for the most part kept their black lipstick and gothic wardrobe at home, but slivers of the famed Cure goth crowd still loomed among the Orpheum's approximately 2,500 seats...

Author: By Sumeet Garg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Cure for the Common Show | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

Hanukkah's unusually early arrival helps avoid the Xmas rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Dec. 5, 1994 | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...year's freshest version is a series of 26 deceptively simple paintings that celebrate scenes of Americana. B is for the Boston Tea Party; J is for Jazz; P is for Patrick Henry; S is for the Statue of Liberty; U is for Umpire. And X? That stands for Xmas, of course. May yours be merry and bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kid-Lit Capers | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...days later, this conscientious objector returned to his dorm to find his door covered with wrapping paper and a sign reading, "Don't Open Until Xmas...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Is Santa Claus a Jew? | 12/15/1990 | See Source »

Under a blazing sun and cloudless sky, Vincent Olebogeng strolls past an ore bucket spray-painted MERRY XMAS 86. Though the temperature is 87 degreesF, Olebogeng considers the weather cool relief. Thirty minutes earlier, he was two miles underground, moving tons of dusty gray ore in the almost unbearable heat of Durban Deep, a gold mine at Roodeport, ten miles west of Johannesburg. He has worked nearly 300 days in the past year, but he will not work tomorrow. After the paymaster hands him a brown envelope containing his monthly wages of 270 rand ($122), Olebogeng is ready to travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Back Home for the Holidays | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

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