The organ bench at Our Lady of Hope was vacant as parishioners celebrated Mass on Thanksgiving Day. Instead, the Catholic church in Dundalk was filled with the foot-tapping zest of an accordion, ...

We may love them now, but polka dots used to have a serious image problem. Before the Industrial Revolution brought about machines that could produce the pattern in a symmetrical and uniform way, any ...

Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. 2025 is becoming the year of polka dots. The spotty pattern continues to take over ...

The 61st Thanksgiving Polka Weekend, hosted by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame will once again serve as a showcase for Cleveland-Style and Slovenian polka. It will take place Nov.

He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, a polka mass at St. Boniface Catholic ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. In case you missed it, polka dots have dominated fashion as of late, and the playful print has made its ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes investigates how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. When Princess Diana arrived at the ...

Seeing spots everywhere you look this summer? No, it's not your eyesight. Polka dots have returned back onto the scene this season, being styled every which way by celebrities and the fashion crowd ...

There are few prints as timeless, and as playful as the polka dot. From Marilyn Monroe’s swing dresses to Minnie Mouse’s iconic bows, the dotted pattern has long symbolized whimsy, femininity, and ...