This December marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a half-hour television special that did something ...

Cartoon characters can devolve into dullards over time. But some are more enduringly appealing than others, as the adventure "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants" (Paramount) proves.

Cartoonist and counterculture icon R. Crumb reflects on his remarkable life and work in a new interview from his home in the South of France.

Coca-Cola may have helped popularize Santa's look, but his modern image was already taking shape long before the soft drink ...

As she told PEOPLE, "an outside [surrogate], however close, might have wanted to keep the babies, and that would have been ...

The popular aquatic hero returns to the big screen in his fourth feature film, "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants." ...

The old maxim is we are not allowed to speak ill of the dead. In Latin, because all Catholic school veterans understand that Latin makes everything more official, we say “De mortuis nil nisi ...

The tourists come for a taste of the old Ireland. But the Irish live in a new country, as high rates of immigration upend ...

Here’s a true Christmas story starring the U.S. Postal Service and Santa Claus. Earlier this week, my wife Colleen went to ...

Remembering notable Philadelphians and those who made an impact in Philly we lost in 2025, including Pierre Robert, Bernie ...

As we face a changing past, Jason Berry looks back on years of reporting on clerical abuse, and reflects on the influence of the beloved dead: a jazz-playing Jesuit, and Berry's daughter Ariel, whose ...

Tobacco and its related industries have increasingly preyed on children and adolescents, employing sophisticated advertising tactics and directly targeting them with a new portfolio of products that ...