O. Henry

NEW YORK (AP) _ Guy talk. Not easy to credibly capture on stage. But playwright Stephen Belber has a knack for making male banter sound real even while his plot veers into improbability while attempting to keep the audience off-balance. Such is the case...

On Sept. 11, 1297, in a rare but important military victory for Scotland, clans under William Wallace defeated a large English force at the Battle of Stirling Bridge northeast of Glasgow. In 1677 Maine became the first American colony to pass a law...

Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville will hold two Sunday musical events this month. Faire Isle will perform at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the John Erickson Conference Center. The four-piece Celtic band plays traditional pipe and fiddle music, Irish...

Three days a week, things get hectic at Rockford's airport. A whopping three commercial passenger flights depart. But those flights go to Las Vegas, Denver and one of two Florida cities—popular enough destinations to keep the gates busy at Chicago...

Chicago filmmaking collective Split Pillow celebrates its fifth anniversary Memorial Day weekend, signaling a new direction with new leadership. Dennis Belogorsky, a longtime board member with the non-profit, replaces founder and executive director Jason...

'Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" sang Miss Billie Holiday, accompanied by Louis Armstrong in a 1947 movie. Some Connecticut legislators their staff members don't want to find out the answer to Lady Day and Satchmo's question. They're off...

Showered with accolades when first produced, David Auburn's "Proof" won the 2001 Pulitzer for drama and the Tony Award for best play. It was adapted into a 2005 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, broke records on Broadway and has been widely produced...

In O. Henry's stories of striving in turn-of-the-century New York, known collectively as The Four Million, filet mignon has a recurring role as a symbol of love and momentary luxury. The diminutive tail end of the tenderloin is the rare celebration...

By Art Winslow Tobias Wolff's short story "Bullet in the Brain" has remained lodged in mine for many years, not just because he kills a literary critic in it (with the puckish implication that what goes around comes around), but because it exhibits so...

It's always annoying on Oscar night when the awards are presented for live and animated short films, and you wish like heck you'd seen just one. In fact, you can see them all. This year's five nominated live-action short films and five animated entries...

The streets of Havana teem with a diverse, complex people whose wants and needs are often neglected but who are connected by one ideal: to have a good life. In this superb collection of short stories edited by novelist, poet and journalist Achy Obejas,...

One is British, the other German. The Brit is a 1-ton, mid-engine atomic pixie stripped to the bare metal floor, a car so loud and raw that when its 220-horsepower supercharged four is at -- how to put this delicately? -- full suck, it sounds like an...