When television producer Lee Mendelson heard jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi's hit single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on his car radio, he thought he had found the right composer for the ...

In the early 1960s, budding filmmaker Lee Mendelson made a documentary about baseball player Willie Mays that aired on NBC. When he was looking for his next project, he turned to the newspaper. “I was ...

Like a lot of people in my age group, I grew up watching the Peanuts cartoon specials. A Charlie Brown Christmas remains a holiday favorite, but there were many others that never quite gained the ...

Vince Guaraldi enlarged our daily newsprint encounter with Charles Schulz’s comic strips into TV specials and movies. He thrust us inside the Peanuts Gang’s breezy, 1960s Latin-inspired jazz sounds ...

Schulz, who died in 2000, spoke in 1990 about his iconic Peanuts comic strip. Plus, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead talks about pianist Vince Guaraldi, who created the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas.

For Americans who came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, Charles Schulz’s comic strip “Peanuts” was a pervasive cultural presence. The strip appeared in newspapers nationwide, and Schulz’s quartet of main ...

Linus van Pelt is among the most underrated characters in the Peanuts comic strip series. The little brother of Lucy van Pelt adds so much more to the comics than people give him credit for. Often ...

Lucy sets a record by being crabby for a thousand days. Lucy asks if she is a crabby person. Snoopy sips from Lucy's straw without her knowing. The Easter Beagle hides eggs and Lucy misses out. Lucy ...