Music
The background: When Bob Dylan toured for the first time in eight years in 1974 following his near-fatal 1966 motorcycle accident, he was backed by The Band for a triumphant tour dubbed Before the Flood that touched down in sports arenas and other large venues across the country.
June 7, 2019
Sports
Chick Lang, former jockey agent for Bill Hartack and ex-general manager of Pimlico, calls this “the T-time Preakness.”
May 20, 1995
Travel & Experiences
As holiday spirits soar it seems like everyone’s gone country-Western Christmas crazy.
Dec. 15, 1994
Entertainment & Arts
By day, George Morgan runs an insurance agency.
May 11, 1995
Two new sets -- one from rock’s greatest singer-songwriter, another from one of its great songwriter-interpreters -- illustrate two paths that diverged at a fork in the road called fame.
Nov. 30, 2002
Austin maverick Butch Hancock has written some of country-rocker Joe Ely’s best songs, not to mention some of the best country songs of the last decade, period.
March 24, 1986
Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch rallied from fifth to win the $400,000 Kentucky Cup Classic and partly atone for the earlier loss of stablemate Serena’s Song at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.
Sept. 24, 1995
Thunder Gulch, who emerged from the shadow of Timber Country, his more highly regarded stablemate, to win the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes this year, has been retired after fracturing a bone in his left foreleg in Saturday’s $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.
Oct. 9, 1995
As a kid growing up without television in Guam, I learned to appreciate life’s simple entertainments.
May 12, 1994