Kriss Kringle

NORAD’s Santa Tracker, which is displayed on TV news channels throughout Christmas Eve, will show children and families the location of Kriss Kringle in real-time, including when he is in the Inland Northwest.

This Kriss Kringle drinks to forget, and we share his lament for a hopelessly cynical world.

Lorang is hardly the only Santa to have scaled back or stepped away entirely from the Kriss Kringle business as the pandemic enters its second Christmas.

After Dickens, Chesterton — the apostle of tradition, paradox and joie de vivre — seems the most Christmas-y of writers, and yet he’s far more than a literary Kriss Kringle.

On Dec. 13, as reported in The Seattle Times, student protesters gathered beneath the colossal Kriss Kringle to distribute leaflets to weekend Christmas shoppers while singing carols rewritten for the occasion.