Fans of the Christmas hit, Elf, were baffled after learning one of its iconic roles was originally meant for another actor. The 2003 comedy, which stars Will Ferrell as the endearing, endlessly ...

Twin sisters Chanda Bell and Christa Pitts grew up with a family tradition that is now a booming business. They, along with their mother Carol Aebersold, are the creators of The Elf on the Shelf, a ...

If you’ve struggled with ideas for your Elf on the Shelf, you have the Aebersold family to thank for that. Fisbee, the first elf on the shelf, joined the Aebersold family with the mom, Carol, telling ...

It was a chilly Wednesday evening and I was behind schedule, struggling to find my wallet and my keys and, in the rush out the door, forgot my cell phone, so I had to turn around to get it. I was not ...

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PHOENIX — Winter wanderers passing through the Scottsdale Promenade shopping center are now seeing a giant elf on their holiday shopping trips. The 40-foot-call “Scout Elf” is clinging to the 125-foot ...

Zooey Deschanel hasn’t been able to take her family through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, past the sea of twirly-swirly gum drops. “A bunch of my daughter's friends were talking about it, ...

Those Netflix specials aren’t made with (just) Christmas magic. By Tony Maglio Tony Dokoupil’s ‘CBS Evening News’ Debut Included a Big Flub, but You Won’t See It on Streaming — Here’s Why Amazon’s ...

“Elf the Musical” is the theatrical equivalent of pouring maple syrup on spaghetti; kids may love it, but nostalgia aside, it’s too sickly sweet to have broad appeal for adults. Based on the 2003 film ...

A few years ago, Kurt Neesley of Redondo Beach, California, was brainstorming where to put his family’s Elf on the Shelf for his three kids to find the next morning. He decided to make it look like ...

As the parent of a half-Jewish, half-Christian child who was already a sharp-eyed Santa skeptic by the time he started preschool, I did not want my kid to be the jerk who ruined Christmas for his ...