The Murky Origins & Everlasting Life of ‘Jingle Bells’
In 1850 JAMES LORD PIERPONT, inspired by one-horse open-sleigh races in his home town, wrote a Thanksgiving ditty…
BEYOND TOMORROW (1940)
In DEEP ROOTS THEATER: a charming holiday movie, BEYOND TOMORROW. Three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash…
Very Mary Indeed
Unquestionably the top new Christmas release of 2013, A MARY CHRISTMAS, the DAVID FOSTER-produced holiday long player from…
The Yuletide Report From the Chairman of the Board
Revised and updated, this appraisal of Frank Sinatra's Christmas recordings as an art form unto themselves was first…
The Mythic Weight Of Phil Spector’s Christmas Gift: A Semicentennial Reflection
November 22, 1963, was a horrible day for the nation, and for PHIL SPECTOR, a personal disaster as…
John Bradshaw Knows What Makes Our Cats Tick (And Purr, For That Matter)
What makes cats tick? International cat expert and best selling author JOHN BRADSHAW offers his theories in this…
The Game of Love
BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay B&N In a world festering with male-female duos,…
Beyond the So-Called First Thanksgiving: 5 Children’s Books That Set the Record Straight
Five new books offer young readers a more nuanced, and accurate, account of the so-called First Thanksgiving.…
An Impromptu Requiem for a Slain President
Upon hearing the news from Dallas on November 22, 1963, the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF,…
The Power of a Song
GHANDI's inspiring Salt March of 1930 provides the inspiration for a powerful new album by CHANDRIKA KRISHNAMURTHY TANDON,…