Hundreds of families kicked off the holiday season Friday morning with a traditional Santa Claus parade through the heart of this growing city.

On Thanksgiving night, they shared. The basketball. The buckets. Even the gravy.

Ethics and athletics. Do those rhyming words go hand-in-hand, or is the term "sports ethics" an oxymoron?

Cult classics — like Ed Wood's films and "Showgirls" — are often defined by their flaws as much as their merits. "Boondock Saints," the 1999 film that achieved cult status on DVD and has now spawned a sequel, certainly had plenty of flaws.

The most famous Thanksgiving Day painting in America may not have been about Thanksgiving at all.

In 1866, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of America's premier poets, published a poem that he called "Christmas Bells." In it, he bared the anguish of his soul, much afflicted by personal tragedy, but also affirmed his faith in the ultimate notion of "peace on earth, good will to men."