Black Veil Brides continue their artistic leap with the one-off single "Certainty." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.

Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian assaults have erased most tributes to his life there. By Constant Méheut ...

Bryan Quinn tells us more about 'Carol of the Bells', the famous Ukrainian Christmas carol. America’s food market is rigged. Look who’s getting rich while many of us struggle with grocery bills Donald ...

What started as a simple call for solo auditions turned into a holiday moment no one saw coming. At Great Hearts Academy Cicero Prep in Scottsdale, three middle schoolers stepped forward together, ...

Apple TV’s sci-fi hit is nearing the end of its first season, but there’s still so much story to tell. Reading time 5 minutes Most of Pluribus episode eight is focused on Carol (Rhea Seehorn), our ...

Credit: DTEK/Cover Images Workers, musicians, and a choir performed the Ukrainian Christmas carol “Shchedryk” – widely known around the world as “Carol of the Bells” – in the turbine hall of a DTEK ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Move over Die Hard — there's a new holiday debate raging, and this time it involves thrash metal legends Metallica. The theory starts with the most obvious element: those iconic bells that open the ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid took issue with a popular Christmas carol, reposting a video that describes the beloved tune as racist. The now-viral clip has renewed scrutiny of the carol’s past, as the ...