The Great American Songbook Goes To The Movies article by Joan Merrill, published on January 23, 2026 at All About Jazz. Find more The Great American Songbook articles ...

Jason Riley’s excellent column “Identity Politics: My Professional Look-Alikes” (Upward Mobility, Dec. 24) reminded me of the story of Winston Churchill confusing Isaiah Berlin, a British historian ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

HOUSTON – It’s a holiday classic for many families: Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas.’ Through December 24th, you can catch it on stage at Theatre Under the Stars at Hobby Center in downtown Houston.

Get ready to make your holidays merry and bright as Irving Berlin’s White Christmas comes to life in a heartwarming musical experience perfect for the entire family. Based on the beloved Paramount ...

Mercedes Burger, the wedding planner behind Miss Matrimony, shares how she can take the stress off your big day and offers helpful planning tips. To kick off Wedding Week, we meet Jamie, the ...

One of the young heroes of contemporary blues is Mississippi singer guitarist Christone Ingram, better known as Kingfish, who returns to Houston for a show at White Oak Music Hall. Moviegoers got a ...

Heading to my seat in Aurora’s Paramount Theatre for a performance of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” I spotted in the lobby two adorably dressed little girls wearing pale blue party dresses. Their ...

It’s always a “White Christmas” somewhere in Chicagoland. I’ve kept a diary, potentially incomplete. Marriott staged this show in Lincolnshire last year. Drury Lane in both 2021 (although a slightly ...

When Irving Berlin conceived the idea of the 1942 musical film “Holiday Inn,” starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, he was pretty sure his song “Be Careful, It’s My Heart” would be the film’s chart ...

My mother wasn’t a big one for jokes, but there was one she liked to tell. Years later, it showed up in the book Old Jews Telling Jokes, from which I quote: A lady is taking her young son to his first ...