The Christmas Day redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge is the core of Charles Dickens' 1843 "A Christmas Carol," perhaps the most adapted and dramatized of all Christmas stories on stage and screen, save the Nativity itself. (Today)

Along with making a career in film and TV, Tom Atkins has long been a fixture on Pittsburgh stages, particularly that of Pittsburgh Public Theater, where to his more classic roles he's added his (Today)

"St. Nicholas," a monologue in which Martin Giles is directed by PICT artistic director Andrew Paul, is only indirectly a Christmas story, the connection probably being that the original St. (Today)

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's final Crawl of 2008 puts aside the edgier art openings in favor of holiday cheer for kids and families. (Today)

There's a stereotype of a Brooklyn band that it's going to show up looking and sounding like the Liars or the Rapture. Low Water breaks that mold. (Today)