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Max Weinberg, of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," responds in song to Orrin Hatch's "Eight Days of Hanukkah" song.

This year is the year of the insane, everything-Twilight Christmas gift. There is so much Twilight merchandizing, it was difficult to choose which to include on this list. But I picked some of my “favorites” (notice the quotation marks: they are there for a reason) with a few Christmas-themed Twilight presents thrown in for this…

Jon Gosselin must stop speaking to the press due to a court order.

This year the Charlie Brown Christmas special was pre-empted by President Obama’s Afghanistan speech, leaving the holidays to be celebrated by the likes of “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy,” which, it must be said, have their own way of keeping Christ in Christmas. On “American Dad,” MacFarlane’s culture-war complement to his animated sit-com “Family Guy,”…

Beginning its article with “Attention, culture warriors,” Time magazine briefly recounts the history of the War on Christmas in this week’s issue, noting that while the Puritans were not so big on celebrating the coming of the Christ child, their descendants–especially those who work at Fox News–have made a lot of hay (and good money,…

Watch this great clip from last night’s episode of “The Office” in which boss Michael Scott (Steve Carell) tries to get everyone to understand the real meaning of the holiday–for his own selfish reasons, of course.

Michelle Duggar is officially a mom of 19. The star of the TV series “18 Kids and Counting”–TLC will be changing the name to “19 Kids and Counting” soon– delivered a baby girl, Josie Brooklyn, via emergency C-section Thursday night, though she wasn’t due to give birth until the spring. Little Josie is “stable” according…

Tim Tebow may not win the Heisman, and he is being overshadowed by Tiger Woods, but he deserves all the praise he is receiving from peers this week.

If there was ever a person at the intersection of culture, sports, faith and the public view, it is Tiger Woods. In our time, he has been the single most famous sports celebrity, the most successful spokesperson and endorser of goods, the most serious threat to the records set in a prior era and–and this…

When I first heard that Bob Dylan was releasing a Christmas album, I didn’t feel much enthusiasm for the idea. Then I listened to a few tracks of “Christmas in the Heart” and my feelings were confirmed. Dylan’s raspy vocals just seemed oddly out of place singing sentimental classics or, even more peculiarly, a polka…
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