Christmas spirit of the week : NY's Satan's Grotto

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Sunday Times

Church leaders have complained about Satan’s Grotto, a tourist attraction in York, where visitors can meet the Devil, sign away their souls and take away a severed finger as a gift. The grotto, opened for Christmas at the York Dungeon, also features robins roasting over an open fire and Santa boiled in a witch’s cauldron. “We’ve written to the attraction saying we would prefer it if they did not do this,” said the Rev Roger Simpson, vicar of St Michael-le-Belfrey church. A spokesman for the Devil said: “It’s tongue in cheek and our visitors love it.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1399803,00.html

SATAN = anagram of Santa....

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1. Pope film a Hotz ticket at Whistler

WHISTLER, British Columbia -- "Papal Chase," a mock documentary about a young Jewish man attempting to meet Pope John Paul II on a Canadian papal tour while dressed as a horned devil grabbed the inaugural Phillip Borsos Award as best Canadian film at the fourth annual Whistler Film Festival wrapped. The irreverent feature-length film, directed by Kenny Hotz ("Pitch") on a slim $800 budget, beat out five other Canadian films for the prize. "I can't believe Whistler is cool enough to embrace guerilla independent film making," a surprised Hotz said at the closing awards brunch Sunday. The film was shot during the Pope's 2003 stay in Toronto for World Youth Day celebrations. Hotz never did meet the Pontiff, but he was run over in the Papal Mass by a golf cart, targeted by police snipers and, wearing horns and red grease paint, escorted off site by Vatican security forces. (Etan Vlessing) FULL STORY
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/awards/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000732634