Customs and Tradition

There are traditional bluegrass acts, and then there are bands like Mountain Heart. While it’s true that, since the late 1990s, when banjo player Barry Abernathy and fiddle player Jim Van Cleve started playing with singer Steve Gulley (who left in...

Remember that awkward silence that fell across the nation back in '94 when Bill Clinton's surgeon general used the M-word? Jocelyn Elders, speaking at an AIDS conference at the U.N. about reducing the risk of sexually transmitted disease, said that...

IMPERIAL — From the ancient gong and drum of the five-horned dragons in the Chinese “lion dance” to the exquisite ethnic cuisine of countries rich in culture, the Pioneers Museum & Culture Center’s Holiday Tour Around the World...

Megan Jones didn’t bother to go to sleep Thursday night as she left her family’s Thanksgiving lunch and drove out to the Old Navy store in El Centro. This year the Holtville resident had to get up earlier than ever to try and keep the first-...

On Saturday, thousands of Dallas Cowboys fans descended on the parking lots outside Cowboys Stadium to take part in a not so traditional Christmas Eve. "We're part of the Christmas, part of the holiday spirit, but yet, we gotta root the Cowboys on," said...

Pope Benedict XVI decried the increasing commercialization of Christmas as he celebrated Christmas Eve Mass on Saturday night, urging the faithful to look beyond the holiday’s “superficial glitter” to discover its true meaning. Benedict...

Tens of thousands of tourists and Christian pilgrims packed the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations Saturday, bringing warm holiday cheer to the traditional birthplace of Jesus on a raw, breezy and rainy night. With turnout at...

In popular culture, it has become fashionable to mock Christmas gatherings. All of our families are so dysfunctional, comedians say, that just getting through Christmas is a relief. Once we survive a few difficult hours with our nutty relatives, we're...

He was born into freedom in Pusan, South Korea, 60 years ago. Still, Jong C. Jang of Marriottsville spent much of his boyhood hearing his father, Ok Kyun Jang, rhapsodize about growing up in a place about 350 miles to the north. Families were close-...

Works by Willie Robertson will be exhibited throughout January in the AEGON Gallery at Centre College. The exhibit is titled “Kentucky Landscape Paintings: Image/Object, Depiction/Abstraction.” Judith Pointer Jia, the Charles T. Hazelrigg...

In the past 12 months, some especially high-energy creators have relocated from other metropolises and set up shop within city limits. While a scrappy inventiveness isn't new here — far from it — it could be that the city is reaching a...

If you haven't yet heard about the Korean wave, get ready to be submerged. The annual Irvine Korean Cultural Festival, a free arts and food bonanza, returns for the third year Jan. 14 at the Irvine Civic Center. "There is a big wave nowadays about to...