If ever there was the saint of a sport, it's Bobby Jones. The overused term "golfing legend" sounds utterly limp and paltry in connection with this extraordinary athlete. Some call...
Rare are the opportunities to see new plays by a playwright who's been dead for 21 years. Rarer still are the opportunities to see the playwright himself stroll about the...
As he seemed to sense when he gave his famous farewell address to his Springfield friends and neighbors, Abraham Lincoln left Illinois in early 1861 not so much to go...
As he describes it, U.S. Navy Lt. John William Finn, now 94, was making love to his wife, Alice, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He rushed to his duty...
Amazing as it may seem, and it truly is amazing, there is a place of peace and serenity to be found right in the middle of chaotic Manhattan, a place...
In all the years I've either lived in or visited New York, I cannot recall a time when I ever stopped to consider the city's 700-mile subway system as art,...
Among the many negatives of mindless television "reality" shows is that they have sharply cut airtime once devoted to made-for-TV movies. Actor Richard Thomas, a mainstay of these enterprises for...
Is Holly Golightly quite what the Bush White House needs just now? Last week, First Lady Laura Bush held the fourth in her series of White House literary soirees --...
The men in Georgia O'Keeffe's life are well known: her arts impresario husband, Alfred Stieglitz; the nature photographer Ansel Adams; the painters Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and John Marin; the...
The Osage Native American people have come into their own with the first-ever major exhibition to focus on their art and culture, opening this weekend at the St. Louis Art...