We love Christmas carols because they carry us back to childhood, when things seemed simpler and happier. Some waft us ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...

“The most famous of these, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You, remains the best-selling Christmas record of the ...

Concertgoers filled Carnegie Hall on a rainy Thursday in October 1922 for a 35-piece performance by the Ukrainian National Choir. It was the first stop on an American tour to promote Ukrainian culture ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...

Happy Christmas in advance, dear readers. For someone trapped in the English language as I was in my formative years, the Bible contained wonderful calls to fai ...

There are only two more sleeps until Christmas and, if you're anything like us, you plan on spending at least one of those ...

The pop-culture hallmarks of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” are ghosts, a boy on crutches and a mean old man. And while those are all central elements of the story, most people forget that the ...

Everyone is invited to a free Christmas Concert at 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 28, at St. Michael the Archangel Byzantine Catholic Church, 205 N. Main St., Pittston. The church will once again host the choir ...

“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” is our introduction to Jacob Marley, whose ghost helps former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge find redemption in the enduring ...

Christian music industry is booming in the country, but at Christmastime, congregations are singing the oldies. At any given hour on a December day in Brazil, a radio station is playing Simone’s 1995 ...

Storytelling tinsel is in short supply this season at SoCal’s largest theaters. For the first time in recent memory, there are no narrative Christmas offerings at the Pantages, Dolby, Ahmanson, or ...