Birthday parties were added to the mix in 18th-century Germany, ... (unappetizingly titled Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake) ...

And that’s why we put candles on our birthday cakes. ... Modern birthday parties are said to have their roots in the 18th-century German celebration called Kinderfeste.

The one-act play by Noah Haidle stars Margot White, who appeared last year in the theater’s “A View From the Bridge” ...