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 1964, one year before A Charlie Brown Christmas brought cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s PEANUTS® to TV screens across America, the Vince Guaraldi Trio breathed life into its beloved characters ...

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 ...

When one thinks of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang, the music of the Vince Guaraldi Trio always springs to mind. It’s hard to conjure these characters in your head without ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Peanuts characters are among the most iconic kids in American culture, right up there with the March sisters and Tom Sawyer. But kids, really? Most college-educated adults I know would be thrilled ...