Happy Boxing Day! Yeah! Wait? What’s a “Boxing Day?” Have you ever had a calendar that listed the holiday on the 26^th? Well, if you’re a citizen of the UK, or of one of the many countries they conquered – ahem – except for the big one with giant oceans on each side… Boxing Day is sort of like our version of Super Bowl Sunday, Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), and uh, getting drunk.

            Not that they (or we ‘Mericans, for that matter) need an excuse for that last one.

            And Happy/Merry ChristmaHanuKwanza to all of us here in the States! Hopefully your plans include lots of fun, peace, family and goodwill. Oh yeah – there’s stuff to do, too! Let’s dip into the box of ammo and see what pops out in this month’s installment of Bullet Points!

New News 4U online

• Check out the new and improved online version of News 4U at news4uonline.com. The new site had a leaner look, more features, an RSS feed and more nifty things. As always you can enter to win great prizes and giveaways, keep tabs on what’s going on, where to dine, party, heighten your cultural well-being and more. 

‘Tis the season…

• … when Goldie’s Little Opry House hosts their annual serious of Christmas shows. Now celebrating her 25^th year of entertainment from the Frederica Street stage, Goldie will bring some of the favorites from the Little Opry to the special concerts, which will be on December 1, 7, 8, 14 and 15. Each show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are only $15. Call Goldie’s at 926-0254.

And lo and behold – a weekend of non-Christmas tunes at the Boiler Room comes on the 14^th and 15^th with the cool-ass original band Given. The regional four-piece, all-rock band plays all over the Bluegrass State (and adjoining Tennessee) with a solid, tight groove that fans of good loud stuff will like. Later or on in December, you can catch Given in Clarksville, TN (12/21) and over in Murray, KY on December 29. For samples, pics and more info on the band, ‘em out at myspace.com/givenband.

RiverPark Center exclusive for Mystery Festival

• Over seventy years after it was originally penned, a lost manuscript of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie titled Chimneys was found. Ms. Christie lost the play during a trip to North America from her native Britain, and it was only after many decades that the artistic director of the Vertigo Mystery Theatre in Calgary, Alberta Canada found it. It was there that the play made its world premiere in 2003, followed three years later by its European premiere in Scotland. Now, for the second annual Mystery Festival at RiverPark, Christie’s long-lost play will premiere for the first time in the United States.

            Earlier in June the Festival hosted over 6500 attendees, and offered a forum for such mystery genre figures as Sue Grafton, Stuart Kaminsky and William Link.