From David Lynch to Diane Keaton and Hulk Hogan, here is a look back at the singers, actors and other entertainment industry ...
The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the ...
High school is when most of us first start to understand what kind of people we'll be when we grow up. We're at our first, ...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived for a purely Scrooge-like reason — to make money. Thankfully, its creator saw the Montgomery Ward marketing campaign as an opportunity to be as bold in his ...
Dan Hill's carefully crafted song of love remains at the top of Dolly Parton's favorites. The tender 1977 ballad continues to ...
We have the story behind Dolly Parton's tragic song, "Hard Candy Christmas", which she first released in 1982.
The perfect Christmas special. Dolly Parton has done quite a few holiday specials over the years, and you can't go wrong with watching any of them on any given holiday. And in 1990, she released one ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was born on Christmas Day in 1971. Trudeau, who has been in office since 2015, announced his separation from his wife, Sophie Grégoire, in 2023 after 18 years of ...
Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” isn’t usually one of the few festive smashes vying for Christmas number one every single year ...
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'Rudolph' Christmas classic has an Illinois tie or two

Fans of the classic Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" may not realize star Burl Ives is an Illinois native.
D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.