Searching For Signs Of King's Inner Life In His Advice Column
by Gene Demby
In the late 1950s, the civil rights leader wrote an advice column for Ebony magazine on issues of race, love and marriage.
Holidays
Monkey See posts about Holidays
Last-Minute Box Sets: Home Video For Everyone On Your List
by Glenn McDonald
Are you still hunting for that perfect last-minute gift? We've got 10 suggestions for everyone on your list, from the baseball fan to the person who quite rightly points out they don't make 'em like The Carol Burnett Show anymore.
Jimmy Fallon And The Roots Help Restore The Charm Of Mariah Carey's Christmas Classic
by Linda Holmes
Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and Mariah Carey perform a stripped-down holiday standard.
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The High And The Low In Holiday Movies
by Linda Holmes
A discussion of highbrow holiday movies collides with admissions of gorging on cornball Christmas fare where Santa brings people love and magic happens.
The Car-Sized Bow And Other Gift-Giving Lies Pop Culture Told Me
by Linda Holmes
Never give a box full of dog — that's our advice. Well, that and a few more things that aren't consistent with how they give gifts on TV.
Happy Valentine's Day: Every Love Song Is A Parenthetical Away From Despair
by Linda Holmes
You may think you know your favorite love songs, but inside them is darkness.
We Still Love: 'Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas'
by Mark Blankenship
Commentator Mark Blankenship finds a special place in his heart for Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, a Jim Henson special from 1977.
Holiday Greetings From The World Of Politics: Dogs, Churches, And Plaid Shirts
by Linda Holmes
Political figures send out holiday cards just like everyone else. ...Well, maybe not exactly like everyone else.
DVD Gift Guide: For That Special (Or At Least Nearby) Someone
by Glenn McDonald
Box-set fan Glenn McDonald explains how DVD sets can be the perfect gift for so many different people on your list that you might knock it all out during your next shopping trip — virtual or actual.
Ten Glass-Half-Empty Holiday Songs For The Grinch Within Us All
by Linda Holmes
Of course, you can think of the holiday season as a time of joy. Or you can choose to think of it as a time when nothing good ever happens. It's really up to you.
It Costs Seven Times As Much As Angry Birds, Charlie Brown
by Linda Holmes
A Charlie Brown Christmas is all about the true meaning of Christmas, which is not the acquisition of things. It is also now a new thing.
For These Bargains We Are About To Receive, Can We Be Truly Thankful?
by Linda Holmes
As Black Friday encroaches more and more on Thanksgiving Day, can we continue to balance our two great traditions of gobbling turkey and engaging in wild acts of consumerism?
For Halloween, Please Enjoy This Story In Which NPH Freaks Out Ever So Gently
by Trey Graham
Neda Ulaby tours a new breed of haunted house that gives her — and Monkey See favorite Neil Patrick Harris — a solid case of the willies.
Nurses, Kitties, Ghosts And Robots: What Was Your Favorite Costume?
by Linda Holmes
We ask for your Halloween recollections: What was the best costume you ever wore or saw?
'Wreck The Halls': Explore The Terrifying, Hilarious World Of Holiday Baking
by Linda Holmes
Holiday baking is a great tradition. So is the mockery of hilariously decorated, professionally made cakes. A new book gloriously brings the two together.
