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In some fancy hotels, Christmas tea has become a refined respite for harried shoppers. But the tradition's roots are much rowdier: efforts to fight public drunkenness.

TV critics Alan Sepinwall, Linda Holmes, Soraya Nadia McDonald and Emily VanDerWerff have TV recommendations.

Two new movies — Doubt and The Reader — deal with sex with minors. Doubt takes place during a time of change for the Roman Catholic church in the 1960s. The Reader is about two generations of Germans, those who lived through World War II and those who learned about it as history.

The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight follows up with a second memoir — a loving portrait of her eccentric mother. Alexandra Fuller tells the story of a young British woman raised in Kenya — a madcap adventuress with a predilection for drama.

Whether the witches are good, misunderstood, or just plain wicked — some fun fall fantasy reading options include The Witches of Bone Hill, Night of the Witch, and After the Forest.

Like other black Americans — considered the political base for President Obama — members of the close-knit Gaither-James family say racism is holding the nation back.

Women make up only 4 percent of construction workers on job sites working with tools. Some are worried that tariffs on building supplies will slow down commercial building construction.

Historian Eric Foner recently won the American History Book Prize from the New York Historical Society for Gateway to Freedom, about the underground railroad. Originally broadcast Jan. 15, 2015.

Abby Miller reports on real estate development for the Chicago Sun-Times. She previously covered real estate in Cincinnati for American City Business Journals and worked at outlets including the Cincinnati Enquirer and Tacoma News Tribune.

Katarina Sostaric is an Iowa City based reporter covering Eastern Iowa for Iowa Public Radio.