It's a holiday season from Rick Sebak and his jolly crew. When winter arrives, people of Pittsburgh have ways of coping with the gloom. It's a time of parties, shopping, celebrating, going to worship services, renewing friendships and jumping in the frozen river. We look at some of the things that make the end of the year and the start of the new one special times in Western Pennsylvania. It's a joyous, light-filled celebration of hometown happiness.