Learn how the Punjabi festival Lohri is celebrated with traditional rituals. Follow this step-by-step guide to embrace its essence.

The Good Harbor Hill Players annual winter solstice shadow puppet performance at the North House Folk School was well ...

Egypt’s national dish is koshari, which is made of pasta, fried rice, vermicelli, brown lentils, chickpeas, garlic tomato ...

In 1994, Congress decreed February as National Bird Feeding Month. Bird feeding is the activity of feeding wild birds other than from natural sources. “To feed or not or not to feed” supplemental bird ...

Guest Opinion. Traditional ceremonies to welcome a new year have been carried out by Native American Native Nations since long before the arrival of the colonists and the establishment of the United ...

A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without ...

The main reason I feel hope and that it is downhill is that we are fortunate to have a sunroom and winter is when I enjoy it ...

The winter solstice is a significant astronomical event that marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, this occurs annually around December 21 or ...

WASHINGTON -- The Chinese Embassy in the United States recently hosted a cultural event themed "Celebrating the Winter ...

The Papillion Community Foundation kicked off the holidays with its annual Winter Wonderland community celebration Nov. 30, ...

While Dec. 25 was ostensibly a Christian holiday, many Europeans simply carried over traditions from winter solstice ...