With stellar performances by Theron, Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson, “North Country” is based on a groundbreaking lawsuit brought by women miners at Minnesota’s Eveleth Mines in ...

Wine grapes like these grown at a Paso Robles vineyard have surpassed strawberries as SLO County’s top crop, but the wine industry is facing challenges. Napa is a prime example.

Gaynor, who has professed being “drawn to epic stories of survival” and calls historical research “my jam,” couldn’t resist ...

His go-to classic is by Joseph Campbell, and he admires “Brothers and Keepers” and “The New Jim Crow” on incarceration. “The River Is Waiting” is his new novel.

I hadn’t read John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” for 50 years, until now. In it, the Joad family is forced to leave Oklahoma with hundreds of thousands of others during ...

In this short essay, Walter Metz uses a graduation speech by David Foster Wallace to analyze the water imagery in the new Gus Van Sant film, Promised Land.

John C. Reilly attends the closing ceremony red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival in May. The actor-singer brings his concert tour to Chicago in the fall.

Maybe one day, AI will truly “get” us. Maybe one day, it will cross-reference our hormone levels with our running cadence, ...

Combined with the grape decorations on the outside of the jars, ample grape pollen in the site’s fine soil, and radiocarbon dates from 5,800 B.C. to 6,000 B.C., the chemical analysis indicates ...

He points to ones we are walking past. They’re 700,000 litres. “Our biggest tanks are 1.5 million litres.” The facilities where trucks used to dump grapes to be made into wine now sit idle.