The Rockettes teach Q102's Katie and our contest winner some of the Rockette's famous steps - even the kick line! Check out the video and learn the moves for yourself!

Jason Castro stopped by Seton High School before performing at Jingle Ball Thursday and helped the students raise ,575 for Lighthouse Youth Services!
Jason had a meet and greet with students, gave an exclusive performance in the school's auditorium and even sang "White Christmas" with the Seton Vocal Ensemble!

Check out behind the scenes pictures, meet and greet photos and more here.

Check out photos of Jason Castro's exclusive performance and the performance of the Seton Vocal Ensemble here.

Jason took the time to take photos with all the Seton classes! Check them out here.

Check out Jason Castro singing White Christmas with Seton students!

The Seton girls taught Q102's JonJon and Bud their school spirit dance!

Check out more coverage of Jason Castro's visit!

Jingle Ball was awesome! Check back here as we add more Jingle Ball coverage, from "American Idol" alum Jason Castro's visit to Seton High School to backstage posts straight from the show featuring Jason as well as the Barenaked Ladies, All-American Rejects and Ingrid Michaelson.

Check out our pictures!

You can see general Jingle Ball pictures here.

Jason Castro opened the show. Check those pictures out here.

Or check out Ingrid Michaelson at Jingle Ball 2009 here.

The crowd danced along with Barenaked Ladies. Check out the pictures here.

The All-American Rejects closed out the show. Check out the photos!

Did you stop by our holiday backdrop at the show? Check out pictures here!

If you haven't seen JonJon's Draw-Off challenge, you're missing out! Check it out here as he and the Jingle Ball performers have portrait draw-offs in only 10 seconds!

Check out Brian Douglas and JonJon asking the artists Q102 listener questions backstage here!

Brian interviewed Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies - check it out here . . . .

Jason stopped by the Q102 studio to hang out with Jeff, Jen and Fritsch before heading to hang out with those awesome Seton girls! Check out a few pics from the studio here!

Check out our photo galleries of Jason at Seton:

Here are his performance pictures at Seton and with the Seton Vocal Ensemble.

Here are pictures of Jason with some of the Seton students and behind the scenes at the show!

And here are some of Jason with Seton classes!

Check out more coverage of Jason Castro's visit!
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Check out Jason Castro singing White Christmas with Seton students!
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Click here for a special preview video from Jason Castro.

Click here for audio of Brian Douglas interviewing Nick from All-American Rejects.

Military families and friends can watch videos of holiday greetings from local troops. Just click on the link for the state and find a name.

• Ohio

• Kentucky

• Indiana

Us Magazine has a feature about five brand-spanking new releases that "all provide something for everybody and make perfect stocking stuffers."

Their list includes "A Very Special Christmas, Volume 7," Sugarland's "Gold and Green," The Priests' "Harmony," Andrea Bocelli's "My Christmas" and REO Speedwagon's "Not So Silent Night" (and provides descriptions for each).

Of course, we'll be getting ready for the Jingle Ball Dec. 10 by listening to the BNL's classic (from 2004) 'Barenaked for the Holidays'.

CNN.com has the annual "be patient, there are a lot of people flying this weekend" story ... but it's definitely worth a look if you're headed to the airport because a lot happens in a year and there is good information that's new and relevant for this year.

From the story:

The number of people traveling this holiday weekend is expected to increase slightly compared with last year, although those traveling by air likely will decline, according to AAA, the motorist and traveler organization.

The AAA, which surveyed 1,350 American households, projects that 38.4 million people will travel over the holiday weekend, up from 37.8 million last year.

The number traveling by air is expected to decline to 2.3 million, the automobile association said. In 2008, 2.5 million people traveled by plane for Thanksgiving.

AAA said the slight increase in the number of Thanksgiving travelers from last year reflects improved consumer confidence as well as "a growing sense among many consumers that the worst of the global economic crisis is behind us."

Check out these hilarious Thanksgiving-related YouTube videos:

Thanksgiving weekend is always one of the highest grossing weekends of the year at the box office. Many studio films are released on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving in order to take advantage of the long weekend. Here are some links that should prove helpful if you're trying to get a better idea of which flicks will be key players this holiday season.

Opening Wednesday were "Old Dogs," "The Road," "Ninja Assassin," and "Me and Orson Welles."

Here's what imdb.com says about all of them.

Here was the Top 10 at the box office for Friday through Sunday in the U.S. and Canada, according to estimated ticket sales.

1. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," .5 million.
2. "The Blind Side," .1 million.
3. "2012," million.
4. "Old Dogs," .8 million.
5. "Disney's A Christmas Carol," million.
6. "Ninja Assassin," .1 million.
7. "Planet 51," .2 million.
8. "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' By Sapphire," .1 million.
9. "Fantastic Mr. Fox," million.
10. "The Men Who Stare at Goats," .5 million.

Coming soon:

DECEMBER 4:

- Armored
- Brothers
- Everybody's Fine
- Up in the Air
- Serious Moonlight

DECEMBER 11:

- The Princess and the Frog
- Invictus
- The Lovely Bones
- A Single Man
- Crazy Heart

DECEMBER 18:

- Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- Avatar
- Nine
- The Young Victoria

DECEMBER 25:

- It's Complicated
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Here's CNN.com's holiday movie special section.

Yahoo! Movies has a nice section, with trailers, clips and more.

And see how the new movies are doing so far on Rotten Tomatoes.

A local gay rights group considers the Bengals' signing of Larry Johnson a "slap in the face."

There's even a post on TMZ about it.

From the post:

TMZ spoke with Lesley Jones, executive director of Equality Cincinnati, who tells us "We do not think that would be a favorable decision on the part of the Bengals.

We would see this as a slap in the face to all the work we've done for equality and LBGT (lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender) rights in Cincinnati."

[The Bengals] must take action to prove that they support equality and LBGT rights in the city."

CNN's Political Ticker blog has a post about how disappointed Sarah Palin is with the cover on which she appears.

"The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this 'news' magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant," Palin wrote. "The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist, and oh-so-expected by now."

"If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention – even if out of context," Palin also said.

And check out the text that accompanies the cover photo ... I'd imagine she probably had a problem with that too