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Knott's Berry Farm has magically been transformed into Knott's Merry Farm for the holidays.  Every day will host the "spirit of the season" parade with elaborately themed floats featuring the Peanuts gang and a local dance group.

Snoopy will be the star of an ice show along with Knott's skating ensemble.  There will also be a crafts village, carolers, choirs and one of a kind treasures created by the artisans in ...

The holidays are about spending time with family and loved ones.  For many they have no where to go or quite simply cannot afford a good meal.  Surat Singh of Angel's Car Wash in Costa Mesa is a man with a heart.  This willl be his 6th year of sponsoring a Thanksgiving dinner for seniors.

The dinner is really a Thanksgiving lunch on Wednesday November 21st from 11 a.m. to 1 ...

By Sunday you will probably have had your fill of turkey, cranberry and stuffing, so come out to the Swedish Christmas Fair. Learn how the Swedes celebrate Christmas and enjoy some Swedish food.  There will be the traditonal St. Lucia pageant where a girl is crowned and wears the traditional white dress with a red bow and candles in her hair.

There will be traditonal Swedish dancing and crafts.  The fair will ...

Christmas time is one time of the year when it seems that there are activities happening every night of the week.

Handel's Messiah is a symphony which is truly a Christmas tradition.

The Messiah will be playing at the Orange County Performperforperforper

We may not have snow in Southern California, however there is lots of sawdust at the Winter Fantasy at the Sawdust Art Festival.  

Artisans, craftspeople, photographers and Santa will be here for four magical weekends, displaying and selling their wares.  This is a great place to visit for unique Christmas presents for yourself or others.  Even if all your shopping is complete, the sawdust festival is an enjoyable way to spend ...

Crystal Cathedral puts on two pageants each year, one for Christmas and another for Easter.  While I have never seen the Christmas pageant I accidently ended up at the Easter pageant a few years back. 

I was celebrating passover at a friend's house and she needed to drive her father home to Hollywood; so I was the passenger to keep her company.  I was new to the area at the time ...

If you have ever been to Turkey chance are you have probably seen the Whirling Dervishes, members of the order of Sufis that dance around the room spinning quicker than a top.  They are quite a phenomenon to see.   Their whirling is a remembrance to Allah.

The Dervishses will be performing at UCI Barclay theater on November 20th at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 to $50 . 

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How many men and women are there that would love to rent a husband to get the fall clean up and all the "To Do List" things done?

You are in luck, Ace Hardware rents out husbands for all those chores that never seem to get done around the house.  They will wash the windows, rake the leaves, put up the shelves, paint.  This is a fantastic idea to help you ...

Once the last piece of pumpkin pie has been eaten it is time to get into the Christmas spirit.  South Coast Plaza will have their tree lighting ceremony on November 26th at 6 p.m. at the Westin Hotel.

The tree will be decorated with 20,000 lights. Lights will be the only decorations on the tree.

If cooking Thanksgiving dinner does not have any appeal to you then head on over to Pacific Whey and place an order for a holiday dinner.  Their Thanksgiving dinner will include an oven roasted turkey, gravy, herbed stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans with pearl onion, rolls  and the traditional cranberry chutney along with a pumpkin pie.  

The restaurant will also have apple and pecan pie.

The food at Pacific Whey ...