Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Patrick Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle (1946-1947), where he later lectured (1970-1972), and worked for many years as a journalist for West Coa...

Paul Atreides, the young renegade Duke, and his mother, Jessica, were fleeing across the desert when they got their first good look at a maker. "Where the dunes began ... a silver-gray curve broached from the desert, sending rivers of sand and dust casca...

Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He worked for many years as a journalist for West Coast newspapers from San Francisco to Seattle and at a wide range of other jobs, of which his experiences in the...

"Whipped" has been on screens for less than a week, so it's a little early to say Judah Domke has "gone Hollywood." The costar of the "yuppie sex romp," as it has been called by several critics, grew up in Wellesley and Holliston before...

'Cooking Under Fire' Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. on WETA (premiere at 8 p.m.) The tagline you'll never see: Aspiring chefs duke it out with giant shrimp heads and undercooked asparagus! The basics: Twelve cooks vie to win the top job...