SANTA CRUZ — One way to tell that the holiday season is on the horizon is when local theater companies start putting on their own versions of “A Christmas Carol.” That includes Santa Cruz ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of the problems in Victorian society. He thought that many of these problems could be solved if people were kinder to each other.

Christmas elicits nothing more than "Bah, humbug!" from Ebenezer Scrooge (Scott), a miser whose sole pursuit of financial success has left him a bitter and lonely old man. But a Christmas Eve ...

HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Kate Middleton is keeping up a new Christmas tradition! On Friday, the Princess of Wales stepped out at Westminster Abbey for the third annual holiday carol concert.