An interview about Louis Armstrong, Orson Welles and Dickens, a radio adaptation of It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart and Donna Reed, a deluxe box set for the soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Beatles' 1965 fan club Christmas disc. 

A piece for Best Classic Bands on the identity-asserting importance of the Beatles' first single. 

Interviewed about Dean Martin, "Christmas Eve on a Haunted Wreck," Hans Christian Andersen, Agnes Moorehead, and a Christmas episode of Night Beat. 

Talking about season offerings from Rod Serling and Johnny Dollar, the Who take on "Jingle Bells," some lovely Christmas TV animation, and the 1970 children's book, The Sweet Smell of Christmas. 

All things pertaining to 1964's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 

Pulling a Peanuts for Charles Schulz's centennial. 

A Christmas report from war-torn WWII London, a Suspense Christmas episode with Peter Lorre, some holiday V-discs, O. Henry, and 1942's This Gun for Hire.  

A piece about the Jazz in Silhouette album. 

A piece on the first episode of the sitcom, which is also in You're Up, You're Down, You're Up: Essays on Art in Life and Life in Art. 

Shaker music, the hot start of the Boston Bruins, a Thanksgiving animated special from 1972, Gunsmoke, and the passing of Jules Bass. 

Interviewed about bullying, Newhart, A Certain Ratio's "Winter Hill," Frankenstein, a long lost episode of Gunsmoke, and Walter Johnson. 

Half hour of jazz talk about Billie Holiday, Freddie Hubbard, Cecil Taylor, Miles Davis, and Bud Powell. 

A feature about the 1962 film, Carnival of Souls, which is also in And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art. 

A piece in Best Classic Bands on John Lennon's composition tape for "Yellow Submarine." 

Interviewed about Orson Welles's radio adaptation of Dracula, 1941's The Wolf Man, Mary Howitt's 1829 poem, "The Spider and the Fly," the Grateful Dead on Halloween 1971, and the Darkness radio program, "Weekend Vacation." 

Interviewed about Bessie Smith, Orson Welles, an animated adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and Columbia Workshop's "A Story in Dogtown Commons." 

Interviewed about Winslow Homer, the Who, Bob Dylan, Hammer horror, and Sheridan Le Fanu. 

A piece about 1972's On the Corner. 

Talking about the new piece on the Three Investigators, Miles Davis, scary episodes of The Hall of Fantasy, The Hermit's Cave, and Escape, and Aaron Judge. 

Back on Downtown to discuss Macbeth, Charlie Parker, Ray Harryhausen and Hansel and Gretel, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and hot chocolate. 

Looking at the trumpeter's remarkable year of 1964 in a piece that is also in The Root of the Chord: Writings on Jazz's Essential Power and Artistry. 

Carlton Fisk's rookie season, the Rolling Stones' Philadelphia Special bootleg, Maury Wills, an Inner Sanctum radio adapation of Poe, the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers. 

New MLB rule changes, a return to the Bunker Hill Monument, a soundboad of Bob Dylan in Atlanta in 2002, a baseball episode of Gunsmoke, the Yardbirds' "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago."

On the needless privileging of royalty. 

Talking about the appeal of college football, details about an in-progress book on the workings of literature, an episode of Quiet, Please, a new JazzTimes feature on Thelonious Monk, and the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union.