Western humor is all about adversity, braving the elements, surviving the landscape and stretching the truth. Call it polished prevarication. Not lies, exactly; more like embellishments. Stories that ...

In his lyrical masterpiece "Playboy of the Western World," J.M. Synge found comedy even in lives as hard as the rocky coasts and granite mountains of Western Ireland. Certainly the play's rich folk ...

TV Westerns have become huge again, but Kurt Russell's Tombstone is the blueprint for the modern Western resurgence.

The classic folk tale "Little Red Riding Hood," popularized by the Brothers Grimm in the first half of the 19th century, is known to many: Good girl meets bad wolf and drama ensues. But few have ...

Joe Lennon (not to be confused with John Lennon) is a cartoonist from western New York, known for his clever and funny single ...