#linus-and-lucy

#linus-and-lucy

Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment now officially own 80 percent of the Peanuts franchise. The companies have closed the deal, which was officially announced in December 2025 when it was still subject to regulatory approvals, for $460 million. Sony Music Japan has owned 39 percent of Peanuts since 2018, so the Sony subsidiaries are essentially buying 41 percent of the franchise from Canadian firm WildBrain with this transaction.

Some would call it healing our inner child, while others would simply say we now have the money to buy what we want compared to back then. Either way, there's something undeniably joyful about it. Snoopy is probably one of the most beloved and enduring characters of all time, and if you're a LEGO lover as well as a fan of this witty beagle, then you'd want to hold on to your roof.

"We've got a long history of 'Peanuts' here," says Chelsea Wood, content and social media coordinator for the Santa Rosa Metro Chamber. "When Charles Schulz moved here back in the '50s, he got a lot of inspiration for his comics. We've become a worldwide hub, outside of the museum in Japan and his hometown in Minnesota. Santa Rosa has kept it going, leaning into the love that everyone shares for 'Peanuts.'"

Over the last two decades, 45-year-old library assistant John Takis has witnessed some of the most important events in modern U.S. history. He lived through the cyber paranoia of Y2K. He saw the violent, fiery destruction of the World Trade Center broadcast on television. He heard the American government loudly declare war on Iraq not once, but twice. None of these dark, confusing experiences of the early 2000s, however, could prepare him for one of the strangest - and maybe most maligned - pop culture artifacts in recent memory: the Dilberito.

Mickey Mouse is more than a simple animated character. He represents a particular emotion that most people experience before they have a chance to process what they've seen. From Mickey Mouse's two black dots for his ears, his round-shaped head, his big doe-like eyes, and his expressionless smile, it is clear that one can understand Mickey Mouse without being told anything about him.

In 1964 — a year before the release of A Charlie Brown Christmas — Vince Guaraldi gave the first televised performance of 'Linus and Lucy.' Filmed for public television, the performance featured Guaraldi on piano, Tom Beeson on bass, and John Rae on drums. Long unseen, this 1964 performance captures the piece in its earliest televised form, well before A Charlie Brown Christmas became the second-best-selling jazz album in history.

If you woke up too early on a Saturday, you'd turn on the TV to find... nothing. Just a test pattern or static. Television stations actually signed off at night and didn't start broadcasting again until morning. Can you imagine explaining this to kids today? That there was literally nothing to watch? No Netflix library, no YouTube, no endless content.