Rogers, Roy (1912-1998)
Roy Rogers, with his horse, Trigger, came to prominence in the late 1930s and early 1940s, following closely in the footsteps of singing cowboy Gene Autry. Rogers' rise ...
Read more
The state House of Representatives has voted to make it illegal to pay people per signature in campaigns to gather enough support to get a measure on South Dakota's ballot.The legislation, now head...
Read more
Jermareo Davidson had enough of solitary workouts and off-court heartache. He dominated in his return to No. 9 Alabama's lineup, scoring 25 points and flirting with a triple-double in a 77-64 victo...
Read more
They don't seem like much at first glance, the two boxes of yellowing letters sitting amid the shelves of aged leather-bound volumes.But the 274 epistles have unlocked two decades' worth of mysteri...
Read more
If hunting has a Super Bowl, this is it.At dawn on a September day, as the sky in the east was turning from slate gray to pale orange, 27 invited hunters from around the world set out on the rollin...
Read more
1. Angkor You won't find any secret artifacts entombed in temples here like the one Lara Croft (played by Angelina Jolie) discovered in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), but Cambodia's maze ...
Read more
Darjeeling Is Limited There are good movies, bad movies, honorable failures, good movies that indifferent audiences turn into flops and bad movies that smart publicists and ham actors turn into hi...
Read more
Gene Autry felt a sense of responsibility to his millions of kid fans.That's why he felt it important always to set a good example of clean living. He'd visit hospitals and orphanages when he was o...
Read more
I'm glad I caught up with Austin Pendleton's unusual backstage story, Orson's Shadow, which has settled in for a long run, I hope, at the Barrow Street Theatre downtown. For one surprising thing, i...
Read more
On the music scene, Hoagy Carmichael is wrong: Spring will not be a little late this year. To quote Lorenz Hart, spring is here. The proof in the pudding is currently being served by two of the cab...
Read more