A few weeks before Christmas in 1951, a new adaptation of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" hit theaters in the U.S. Though it didn't make as much of a splash stateside as it did across the pond (where it was called "Scrooge"), the film became a holiday favorite on American t...
When we come to the Sonata No. 2, the atmosphere changes completely. Its first pages are notable for atremolandourgency in the piano underpinning a vibrant, buoyant outpouring from the cello, the complex excellently handled by Knighton and Farid as Brahms moves from exuberance to less active, ...
Still, some classics are just right too, like Wonderful Christmastime, The Drifters' White Christmas featured in The Santa Clause movie and Run Rudolph Run (especially Motorhead's cover of it). Michigan's favorite Christmas song is one I can appreciate too....
Which brings to my mind an interesting speculation – what if parents of white, Asian or Jewish students at public schools – especially the schools in sink neighborhoods are reconsidering the whole school desegregation thing and reassessing the so-called benefits thereof? The DIEists insist that ...
In 1935, Parker Brothers started selling the real estate game Monopoly; however, the idea for the game was stolen. On Jan. 28, 1936, the game's actual creator Lizzie Magiecalled out the thieveryon the front page of The Washington Post, which only served to promote the game further. ...
Here are some of the terms people call the snow build up behind our tires: "Car Burg" -- this was called in by a woman who also carries a golf club with her to knock it loose."slush turtles" -- turtles? I don't see it. ...
How to proceed? To gather and sing? To toast? How to spend and waste and worry about how the presents are wrapped? Otis showed a lovely film a few years ago calledJoyeux Noël.It’s Christmastime during World War I. The Scots begin playing pipes and singing festive songs. A Christmas...
It's been driving you all crazy! You've been texting, calling and even stopping us in the street to take a guess.And no, Googling it will get you nowhere. It...
Carols, even instrumental versions, are banned in certain places. A major postal delivery service has not only made their drivers doff their Santa caps, but ordered them not to decorate their trucks with Christmas wreaths. How is it, one well might ask, that in a Christian nation this is ...
Filipinos celebrate the world’s longest religious holiday.The Christmas season begins on September 1st, and Christmas carols start filling the air. It ends at the first week of January, during the Feast of the Three Kings. Why? I don’t know but the people love family, and they love to...