When the holidays draw near, the first songs Aretha Franklin starts playing from her yuletide collection are "This Christmas" and "Christmas Just Ain't Christmas (Without the One You Love)." "Those ...

A community of Benedictine sisters living in the Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph have released a Christmas CD titled “Christmas at Ephesus.” Proceeds from their new CD, comprised of traditional ...

Just wait, she said excitedly, until I heard her idea on how we could have a happier holiday. “You know I like Christmas music,” she said, showing how it would work. “And I know you like new CDs — we ...

Three-time Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan is out with her first-ever holiday album and first studio recording in three years, "Wintersong." The singer-songwriter says she'd wanted to ...

Tis the season to be jolly and to watch as many Christmas specials and movies as possible. While there is a large platter of holiday movies to choose from in America, there are fewer Christmas films ...

Buck and Company, a local bluegrass and gospel group, has released a Christmas CD, “My Christmas Dream.” From left, members of the band are Dwayne McCumbers, Connie Hardman, Jerry Hardway, Buck ...

Christmas comes early for music fans with a bounty of new holiday albums by fresh, familiar and surprising faces. "I just love the holidays so much," said Alison Sudol, aka A Fine Frenzy, who turned ...

To Donald Rumsfeld’s not exactly pithy quote about known knowns and known unknowns, I add this: There are things that we know we will never know.To wit: I will never know what about Sandra Bullock is ...

On Guam we know that an island Christmas has a feeling all its own, despite the cultural symbols around it focusing on regions with cold weather. We revel in this glorious transition to Fañomnåkan — ...

Leave it to Little Steven Van Zandt, of the E Street Band, “Sopranos” and “Underground Garage” radio-show fame, to come up with the coolest Christmas collection of the year. “Christmas A Go-Go” ...