It's generally agreed that when Jolly Old St. Nick spouts a trichotomous ho, he's laughing with mirth. But the history of ho ho ho as laughter-and how it became Santa's catchphrase-is a little more ...

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By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

We hear them from one Yuletide after another, the sounds of the season we’ve known and loved for decades. Just how much do you know about classic Christmas songs? Test your knowledge with this short, ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

Today’s queues may be digital, but the fight to secure that must-have present and avoid small, disappointed faces is timeless. Tom Howells looks at the toys topping recent (and less recent) Christmas ...

As 2025 comes to a close, Asheville Watchdog staffers take you back and inside their most memorable stories and news events ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley's surprise appearance at Mobile's Sage Park left a group of men with a Christmas surprise and a new sock.

One of the earliest mentions of New Year's resolutions appeared in a Boston newspaper in 1813. But the practice itself can be ...

The jolly figure in red we picture today is far from the real St Nicholas, a slim 4th century bishop from Turkey whose legend evolved through centuries of folklore into our modern Christmas icon ...

Much as many would like to wall off this Test, it might not be possible. Besides, some five-day Tests of yore should have ...