Only the Beach Boys could conjure up a Christmas tune so effervescently Christmassy as Little Saint Nick, with their trademark harmonies somehow managing to convey both snow and sunshine all at once....
Dean Martin’s Let It Snow is a Christmas classic for all the right reasons. It has a nice pace and beautiful instrumental flourishes and best of all, it’s easy to sing along to (even I can hit...
With both the fight against ISIS and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on American’s minds both at home and abroad, a doc doesn’t deliver much more timely lessons than those of David...
Like many of the old standards, there are multiple versions of Sleigh Ride, but this is the one I like the best. It’s also consistently popular in the US where it ranks every year in the holiday...
I have to admit that today’s advent selection has always baffled me slightly. It’s a great song, but why is it quite as popular as it is? It often tops those rather inane surveys of the best...
The United States will be holding its 50th Super Bowl next year in Levi’s Stadium, a brand-new, multi-million dollar facility sitting at the base of the Bay Area’s Peninsula region. While the...
I wasn’t quite sure whether to do today’s entry in the usual form of a song or just give today’s artist an entire advent calendar door of his own… yes, it’s Bing Crosby! Today’s song may...
Feminist media darling Amy Schumer is in the news again this week for her feature in 2016’s Pirelli Calendar — the world-famous borderline pornographic calendar distributed to distinguished...
On Thanksgiving, I, like millions of other people across the US, sat at my Thanksgiving day table and promptly got into a fight with my conservative family members. Thanksgiving is one of the most...
California’s Silicon Valley has become almost a parody of itself — and definitely a pending referendum on late-stage capitalism. As in the tech bubble of the late 1990s, the entire Bay Area is...
