The annual Rate Bowl kicked off on Dec. 26 inside Chase Field in Phoenix. The Golden Gophers of Minnesota would walk off New Mexico in overtime to win their ninth straight bowl game which is the ...

Carol Pysher of Davie was 10 years old in 1955. Too young to know much about Beatniks, the group of unconventional young people, including poets and writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, ...

Partway into my first read-through of “Big Little City” by Mike Bove, of Portland, I thought: “What a long, strange trip it’s been from ‘Mexico City Blues.'” Jack Kerouac’s book came to mind partly ...

"I'll tell you a funny story about my mother," offers Terry Allen, grinning wryly like he does. "I was born in Kansas and moved almost immediately to Amarillo, where I lived the first two years of my ...