You might have seen an image of a blue-tinted, smiling Grinch with the caption, “That feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow.” The meme has proved surprisingly durable, but what on earth does it mean?

Think about all the characters you most associate with the Christmas season. There's Santa Claus, of course, and his various reindeer. There's Ebenezer Scrooge in his many pop culture forms. There's ...

In the Old Globe’s long-running musical “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” musical, the lonely Grinch ultimately discovers his inner “Who” self among the quirky but welcoming citizens of ...