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London’s last remaining gas lamps are a part of our city’s fabric — and were under threat until a few days ago. Tom Ellen meets the group who fought to save these beacons of history

“Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol,” Chicago’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the return of “The Sound of Music Sing-a-Long” are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

As he was starting his literary career, Charles Dickens was a journalist. Alas, he was not a business reporter — that would have been too appropriate for the son of a debtors’ prison inmate.

Everything from the works of Charles Dickens, Irving Berlin and Frank Capra to a new tale of Santa’s son and holiday-themed improv are among the area offerings this season.

The all-singing, all-dancing festive film is one of this year’s must-watch Christmas flicks.

[Random clippings from my collection - see No. 1 for a brief explanation/No. 2] This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined…

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Like many onscreen Scrooges before him, Ryan Reynolds' character in "Spirited" is told that he will face his past, present and future. But he surprises even the spirit haunting him upon raising his hand and asking: "Like 'A Christmas Carol'? The Dickens story? The Bill Murray movie with Bobcat Goldthwait?"

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times