The Library of Congress’ online store has clever yet affordable gifts for all of your bookish friends.
I’m always on the lookout for gifts for my friends and many of mine are avid readers, writers, teachers, and …
Christmas
Buying champagne for New Year’s Eve? These are the best vintages of the last 100 years.
Christie’s—the venerable, global auction house—says when buying Champagne, it’s important to understand not only which vintages are great, but also …
Merry Christmas! I’m sending you a tune to brighten your holiday. Thanks for reading BrockelPress.
In many ways, 2020 has been the year from hell, hasn’t it? I’ve been working from home since March 13 …
You can’t go to Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular this year. (Psst. The show can come to you.)
The news.While Radio City Music Hall’s annual Christmas Spectacular won’t have live audiences this year, NBC will air a taped view of …
Theatre people: A 70s Christmas in New York, a dinner in Philadelphia, and a petrified Christmas tree.
Christmastime, 1971 I’d just returned to New York after being on the road in the cast of The Impossible Years. …
Peabody’s Aeris Brass Quintet creates some of the most joyous sounds of the Holiday Season.
From WBAL TV in Baltimore, Season to Celebrate—a program capturing the sights and sounds of the holidays and featuring local …
Watch Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” with Geraldine Page, narrated by Truman himself.
The story Capote wrote begins with these words: Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more …
Merry Commerce to you, er uh, Christmas. Merry Christmas…
Nothing says, “Happy Holidays” quite like a Hoover! Click through the slideshow to revisit the uncool side of Christmas.
Baltimore. Christmas eve, 2015. What fresh hell is this?
This is the most depressing Baltimore holiday forecast ever. The National Weather Service, 10am EST–The Christmas Eve forecast for the greater …
Say, there are birds in our Christmas tree…
There are butterflies, also.Jacob designed it this year, dressed it, and finessed it; I admire it.
Again this year, I’m sharing Christmas with my good friends at 28 Barbary Lane.
Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and …
And our Christmas decorating saga has begun
Each year it seems that it takes more and more last minute trips back to our storage unit or out to the …
Baltimore. Monument Lighting. December 4th. Party.
It’s about that time again—let’s all gather around our newly restored Washington Monument, raise a glass and a cheer, and wish …
Providing a forever family for the wee ones: The kittens that came for Christmas.
Of all the beautiful cats and kittens in the shelter, two immediately caught our attention. They were tiny little beings, …