A powerhouse for decades, like the superhero genre of today, lost its cultural stature as audiences were saturated with product, took a detour with revisionist auteur filmmakers then broke out again ...

F rom True Grit to No Country for Old Men, novel adaptations have given the Western some of its greatest films, exploring the ...

I belong to the last generation of Americans that grew up with Western heroes. Yet by the 1970s, all that had slipped away. After the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, it was hard to admire ...

Every decade has a cinematic genre that forever defines its generation. In the 1930s, it was the kind of screwball comedy that starred Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and James Stewart. In ...

Frontier Days was held in July 1925 at Frontier Park (now Hawkeye Downs) in Cedar Rapids. (Ralph R. Doubleday via The History Center) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

Frontier women were strong, courageous, resilient and resourceful. They had to be. On their way to their new lives, they had learned some hard lessons, lessons that would serve them well in the harsh ...

This is the first installment in APP's Whatever Happened To...series, our look at the beloved -- and sometimes not-so-beloved -- people, places and things that are no more at the Jersey Shore. In the ...

The images we have about the old west don't tell the whole story. The Wild West was populated and explored by a wide range of people of all genders colors ethnicities as sexual orientation. Author ...

LAS VEGAS ( FOX5) — On this day in 2007, the New Frontier casino came down in a cloud of dust. Its implosion marked the end ...