Amanda Shires' new album, For Christmas, makes it clear: she'd rather not be home for Christmas at all. "I think it would be a big lie or a sham to just walk through this Christmas stuff and think ...

Amanda Shires was on the Greek island of Hydra in 2018 on a pilgrimage to see Leonard Cohen’s home, when a gift fell from the sky. “I was looking up, trying to find the specific wire that ‘Bird on the ...

I am not particularly sentimental, but there are few things that simultaneously warm my cynical heart and signify the start of the holiday season like the lighting of the city’s big, beautiful ...