Supermarkets’ cake mix shelves feature the Big Three. There’s Pillsbury, whose Doughboy is a cartoon character. There’s Betty ...

He died of lung cancer in 1959, 11 days shy of his 79th birthday. And he’s still a household name today. J. Mark Powell is a novelist, former TV journalist and die-hard history buff. Have a ...

child wasn’t. The second reason that we need to see a copy of the Christian baptismal certificate is to be sure that he or she was baptised in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Name of ...

Sixty years ago, Americans were doubled over laughing at a 70-something spitfire’s antics. When “The Beverly Hillbillies” made its debut on CBS in 1962, critics were aghast. However ...

Supermarket cake mix shelves feature the Big Three. There’s Pillsbury, whose Doughboy is a cartoon character. There’s Betty Crocker; sure, her pretty face is on the box, but it’s a portrait ...

The sunlit opening of French writer-director Louise Courvoisier’s punchy, sweet coming-of-age debut feature, “Holy Cow,” set in a cheese-making pocket of France’s Comté region ...

Andrew Jackson had, figuratively, dodged two bullets. He completed the final two years of his presidency and returned to his plantation outside Nashville, Tennessee. He died there eight years later at ...

After a four-year absence, Andrew Jackson is back in the Oval Office. Not the actual Jackson, of course. After all, the iconic office didn’t exist when he lived in the White House. Instead, his ...

Irene Ryan, left, as Daisy May ‘Granny’ Moses, with the woman she beat out for the role, Bea Benaderet, playing ‘Cousin’ Pearl Bodine, in ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ (1962-71). After ...

So we’re going to do the hard work for you. We head to France this week to explore rural feel-good drama Holy Cow, which was an unexpected local box office hit and could now be poised to travel ...