Archive | December, 2011

Christmas Should be More Commercial

Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes seriously. In fact, Christmas as we [...]

‘The Plait Lady’ Expands To Harbour Island With New Store

by Elizabeth A. Bryan, Managing Editor The Eleutheran (News Agency), Spice Media Group (Harbour Island, Eleuthera) Harbour Island is now home to “The Plait Lady”, a second location of the signature store, owned by Claire Sands, herself widely known throughout the Bahamas as the “Plait Lady”. Sands, who has her original, very successful, locale at [...]