Irving Berlin won an Oscar for writing this seasonal standard, which Bing Crosby first recorded for “Holiday Inn,” a film released in 1942, establishing a market for secular Christmas music, thereby ...

Long before the Bing Crosby Theater was renamed in honor of one of the greatest entertainers of all time, Spokane’s own superstar Bing Crosby was finding his footing in a bustling downtown jazz scene.

There’s something truly magical about a classic Christmas song and its ability to fill a person with the Christmas spirit, conjure memories of the kind of holiday you’re meant to dream of when Bing ...