My father heard many stories while sitting by the wood stove in mining camp bunkhouses. The male culture there fostered a traditional style of storytelling. Anecdotes were embellished, but they were ...

Back in 1999, Nicholas Lemann published a remarkable book about the American class system. The first half of “The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy” chronicled how a few ...

We've all got them, for better or worse. They are our source of support, our safe harbor of love and comfort. Or they are our source of contention, our stormy sea of anger and regret. What experience ...

Having earned his leading man Javier Bardem an Oscar nom with 2010’s Biutiful, Mexican helmer Alejandro González Iñárritu is set to tackle another morally ambiguous father figure with his next film, ...

Sometimes, you just have to replace “Ding-Dong” with “Flim-Flam.” That’s what Theatre Rhinoceros, the country’s longest-running LGBT theater, has done with its 39th season. Executive director John ...

It’s a flim flam! Just in time to celebrate the country’s independence, members of the Senate, the House — and yes, even the White House and the press — are putting the shells on the table and asking ...

National Lampoon has partnered with Flim Flam Films, the production company behind its forthcoming "National Lampoon's Dirty Movie," to distribute three more Flim Flam comedies during the next 18 ...

In most cases, there's a tale behind every tattoo. Gene's Page Mississippi State writer Steve Robertson is a man of many. And Robertson compared writing his first book, Flim Flam, which chronicles, ...