"What’s up with this white space? You know, the gap between Christmas and New Year’s. That special holiday purgatory of stale Christmas cookies and brown butter bourbon and relatives who can’t get ...

The moment was captured in video footage that recalls the big-city myth that inspired the 1980 B-movie “Alligator,” and was further popularized by Drew Barrymore in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi ...