Everyone who's read Larry McMurtry's masterpiece remembers Joshua Deets. How many people know the life story of Bose Ikard, his real-life counterpart?

Visiting Calgary for the Stampede? Maybe you should consider staying. The greatest show on earth may only be for 10 days a year, but there are a lot of reasons why a move to Calgary could be the ...

Reports emerged of people hiding in cellars, fleeing their homes, grabbing guns for self-protection, or even dying of a heart attack. Newspapers at the time (bear in mind, they had a motif to ...

Where lightning strikes the most in the U.S. Texas, Florida and Oklahoma are the lightning capitals of the United States, according to Vaisala Xweather.But Texas stands out among the top three ...

The Hague, Netherlands — The Netherlands' national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam's infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with ...

The chart below provided by Vaisala Xweather, a meteorological data company, shows the valleys of calmer weather and the peaks of lightning activity as storm systems move across the country. Where ...

Art of Vengeance is designed in such a way that I never felt like I needed to stop moving during a fight. If an enemy tries to attack me during a combo, I can hit my evasive dodge and exit it into ...

On Writers and Writing: Essays by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra (New York Review Books, 408 pp., $24.95). The criticism of Henry James (1843–1916) is replete with imperiousness. We can hear ...

SAFETY AT 311 FOR ASSISTANCE. A HOUSE IN NORTHWEST ALBUQUERQUE WAS HIT BY LIGHTNING AND CAUGHT ON FIRE. HERE ARE PHOTOS A-F-R SHARED WHEN THEY ARRIVED ON THE SCENE YESTERDAY. THE ROOF WAS MADE OF ...

Our L.A. music correspondent, Kat Sophia, caught Kendrick Lamar and SZA at SoFi Stadium. Ensemble Theatre Company closes out an exceptionally strong season with a new musical Justice, about the women ...

If lightning strikes the house or the structure’s power source, electricity can travel down a wire and reach a person holding a plugged-in device. So, avoid holding such devices during a storm.