When Bowie Met Bing
It's one of the iconic videos of the holiday season: An alien-looking David Bowie trading countermelodies with the 20th century's most iconic crooners, Bing Crosby. But their 1977 TV collaboration…
After ‘Auld Lang Syne’: New Year’s Songs
Christmas has the market sewn up when it comes to holiday songs. But there are enough New Year’s songs around to fill up a mixtape, if indeed people still fill…
Wednesday TV: New ‘Doctor Who’ Calling
Christmas is a day of reruns, marathons and, for some reason, NBA games on American TV. But in Britain, it's the day that is set aside for special episodes of…
Tuesday TV: Merry Christmas, You Wonderful Old Building and Loan!
The most beloved Christmas movie used to be shown at least twice during the season. But NBC had a hit with its live remake of "The Sound of Music" and…
‘The Judy Garland Christmas Show’
The notion that the standard old musical variety Christmas specials were old fashioned, forced and fake does not stand with "The Judy Garland Christmas Show." The first half of 1963…
The Saddest Christmas Songs
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Turkey Shoot on ‘The X Factor’
Family gatherings, stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce. For "The X Factor," Thanksgiving is also a time to crush dreams. On an episode when no family connection failed to be exploited, the…
Report from Halloween, 2013
Through some stroke of fate, I was a judge of a neighborhood kids costume contest and though I hardly ever had to weigh tough decisions of winners and losers, I…
Cherry Blossom Report 2013
There's actually a single point on a clock when you can say the cherry blossoms have peaked in Washington D.C. They build a whole festival around it and thousands of…
Starting 2013 With a Whimper
Does New Year’s Eve just get inherently less interesting as one gets older? It was never much more exciting to see a calendar turn than to see the odometer turn…