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Teenagers can be the hardest people in the family to shop for. If you think an item is cool, that automatically makes the item lame in their book. Here are some suggestions: If you have a teen in your family, you might know more than you ever wanted ...

Christmas can be a stressful time for anyone — an endless to do list of buying presents, putting up decorations and preparing a hearty meal. But the burden can be particularly heavy for single moms dealing with these time-consuming and expensive tas...

The trouble with putting an evergreen tree in your house every Christmas is that it doesn’t really stay green forever. Sometimes they seem to turn brown the moment you put them in the stand. Pine needles all over the floor is a nuisance that many pe...

When it comes to decorating the home for the holidays, former Martha Stewart Living employee, Jennifer Johnson-Porter maintains that simple is always best. For the mother-of-two, Christmas tree preparations start at her house as soon as Thanksgiving ...

If you’re stumped on what to get that special man in your life this holiday season — and know he doesn’t need another tie or pair of reindeer boxers — why not listen to the experts? A handful of local stores recently gave The Royal Gazette a sneak pe...

Residents are already rockin’ around the Christmas tree with some vendors reporting a marked hike in sales of the festive trees despite the flagging economy. In the first week of December — traditionally the busiest week for Christmas tree buying — i...

Writers get your pen moving, the Dr Stanley Ratteray Christmas Short Story Contest ends today. The annual Christmas Short Story Contest has been a staple of the Bermuda literary calendar for decades and many of today’s established writers first cut t...

When local charity Cornerstone Foundation opted to host a Christmas store last year, allowing low income families the chance to shop for their own groceries and presents at greatly reduced prices, they weren’t sure how people would respond. Then the...

Students at Onionpatch Academy put on a show at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital today. Residents of the hospital’s Continuing Care Unit were treated to Christmas carols, sung by students in the day care programme at St Paul AME Church.

Six local charities are getting a dose of old fashioned Christmas spirit from stores located in the The Old Cellar on Front Street. Joan Cabral, of Hera Boutique at 47 Front Street, has launched a Christmas tree campaign to help The Bermuda Reading C...

Comforters, pillows, sheets and other home goods — these are Black Friday 2013’s hottest items. And the shop that was seeing real action was Gibbons Home Store on Church Street. Deep discounting brought out many first-time Black Friday shoppers, who...