“I start looking for stocking stuffers the day after Christmas,” says Bonnie Carlson when referring to the candy and trinkets she puts in 3-foot to 4-foot long Christmas stockings for her family each year. She has a tradition of serving a very large breakfast on Christmas morning, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Cena doesn’t believe in ego. How could he when he’s used to tens of thousands of WWE fans chanting “John Cena sucks” every time he walks out to the ring? It’s a philosophy that’s helped him survive both the demands of professional wrestling, where he was ...

BUFFALO — It’s a season of giving and, for some entertainers, that means a special tour stop for a good cause. That’s just what violinist and dancer, Lindsey Stirling brought to the stage of Shea’s Theater, Dec. 15, performing a show in the middle of her “Wanderland” tour to benefit ...

By now you should have good ideas you want to commit to the blank page or screen. Some people still use typewriters, and some people write out in longhand before typing. Any way you can get words to the page is half the battle. Some people I have talked with say they have ideas, but getting ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Penny Marshall, the trailblazing director of smash-hit big-screen comedies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own” who first indelibly starred in the top-rated sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died. She was 75. Michelle Bega, a spokeswoman for the Marshall ...

By The Associated Press John Mellencamp, “Other People’s Stuff” (Republic Records) In his youth John Mellencamp was known to be cocky. That brashness carried him to the big stage, where he became a stadium-scale rocker with an adventurous spirit. He mostly fell short of the stature ...