Welcome to the 2025 Heistmas Advent Calendar, a daily drop of pop culture Christmas icons, oddities, and joy. Check back every day from now through December 25 for each daily entry!
Christmas can be a bittersweet time, because for so many of us it will always feel like something, or someone, is missing. There's a reason that so many classic Christmas songs are about missing people, or places, or times we can't reclaim, and when it comes to music about those hard times and trying to see beyond them, it rarely gets better than The Pogues classic "Fairytale of New York."