An iconic member of Toronto's Fox and Fiddle fleet suddenly closed its doors, and it left plenty of party people scrambling to make New Year's plans. Few names in Toronto are as synonymous with an ...

Lancaster Church of the Brethren marked the end of the Christmas season with a special concert Saturday night, and the church will host another performance Sunday, Jan. 5. The church’s Chancel ...

Dismantling your Christmas tree may not be the cheeriest chore, but this tradition adds a bit of structure to the post-holiday cleanup Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest’s ...

John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Newton’s New Year’s Day sermon in 1773, 252 years ago. One of the greatest hymns of all time, it has been part of countless ...

That year, the children's choir had a landslide victory, which brought much happiness, and everyone ended by singing a popular Setswana Christmas hymn that welcomes the birth of the longed-for ...

Wham's “Last Christmas” reaches a new peak on several Billboard charts at once, and that success ... [+] pushes it back to its all-time high on the Hot 100. Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael ...

When it comes to Christmas traditions, every family has its own cherished rituals, whether it's opening presents before lunch, attending a church service, or crafting a gingerbread house.

Servants bear a cooked peacock, a medieval delicacy, to the Christmas table of King Henry VI while a jester chases away the court dogs. From the Illustrated London News, 1930. (British Newspaper ...

Essentially, the debate is part of the larger assertion by some conservative Americans, who believe Christmas is facing a threat in American culture – dubbed a “War on Christmas”. One example is how ...

Now we come to the third Christmas carol entitled “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.” This carol, written by Charles Wesley in 1739, is but one of a multitude of over 6,000 hymns he wrote. It was John ...