Tonight is the 8th and final night of Chanukah and I am exhausted. My kids have lit candles at several parties, made cookies, eaten tons of potato latkes, and opened many presents. Please enjoy our new holiday tradition, the annual viewing of the "My Menorah" video. The tune may be a wee bit familiar to you.......

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,......

The LeeVees ask the most debated question of the holiday season. How Do You Spell Channukkahh? Now go eat some latkes and spin some dreidels. Happy 6th Night of Chanukah everyone!......

In time for Chanukah, Ruth Seymour’s stirring and festive tribute to Yiddish culture, “Philosophers, Fiddlers & Fools,” is airing now on KCRW (noon - 3pm). KCRW presents Ruth Seymour's popular perennial salute to the little villages and towns of Eastern Europe, through the Second Avenue Hit Parade. Music, stories and memories from a world now vanished. For nearly thirty years, Seymour has collected and shared these beautiful, rare recordings and stories with a grateful......

The holiday times really are a-changing. Thanks to our need for instant gratification, we can shop for everyone this Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa season without leaving the comfort of our cubicle. (’Fess, up -- we know you’re not really working that hard.) And we totally approve. Who wants to fight traffic at the Glendale Galleria or in Century City, anyway? But we have to draw the laziness line somewhere, and for LAist, it’s drawn at holiday decorations.......

With Chanukah just around the corner (we're just waiting for the sun to set), LAist wanted to do their part in using the digital technology of the Internet to provide all our readers with the most comprehensive, full-featured Big Menorah Guide ever. For example, there's a wonderful Big Menorah standing tall on the second floor of the Fashion Square Mall -- somewhere inbetween the pretzel shop and a T-Mobile kiosk. Worshippers who would like......

It's happening already. With Thanksgiving literally hours away and Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa mere days from occuring, the normally dedicated attitudes of workers citywide has slowly been overtaken by a strange blank stare some may have seen in the movie Day of the Dead in which oblivious zombies take over a town and start eating each other. The same goes for Los Angeles during the holidays. Being a town filled with transplants from all over the country......

On the heels of The Grove's Holiday Tree Lighting Extravaganza as reported in yesterday's edition of LAist -- Jews from all around the Southland have united together to present something just as awe-inspiring for those uninterested in candy canes, Chris Kringle and really-big foliage. The big news broke recently in an article on the well-regarded Press Telegram that at first glance appeared to be a simple, informative article on the significance of the menorah......