At Russ & Daughters, it takes three months to learn how to slice salmon. NPR's Scott Simon visits the 100 year-old appetizing store to try his hand at the fine art and talk about their new cookbook.

Christmas isn’t just tinsel and cheer. It also has a long tradition of ghostly tales. Radiotheatre’s Ghosts of Christmas Past revives the art of vintage radio drama, with five haunting stories.

Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie? A Philadelphia theater group offers a live reading of the 1988 action classic just in time for the holidays.