Over the course of the twentieth century, the cultural significance of the Western has overwhelmed the borders of a simple film genre. The Western film's many incarnations remain the most obvious and popular frame for the mythos of the American...

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States (known as...

Democracy: We don't know if last week's shooting of a U.S. analyst was a Russian hit job, but we know critics are being picked off as President Vladimir Putin cleans house ahead of a transition. He is going to go too far.Thirteen journalists have been...

Gonzaga had an awful night shooting free throws until it mattered most.After making just half their foul shots for most of the game, the 14th-ranked Bulldogs made their last eight to hold off Western Kentucky 74-71 in the first round of the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska...

The German capital's new $8.2 million Jewish community center will feature a replica of Jerusalem's Western Wall _ accurate down to the plants sprouting from its cracks, the center's leaders said.The 1,000 sq. foot replica will be part of Szloma Albam House. The center's Sept....

People driving their cars, cranking on their air conditioners and switching on lights and dishwashers are responsible for most of the climate changes that are gradually drying up water supplies in arid and growing Western states, a new study finds.Those climate trends are likely to...