Patrick Sauer

Picture, if you will, this harrowing New York City scene. You’re an aging bank security guard about to lock up for the night, when some joker jams his big red shoe in the door and sticks a gun in your face. Once inside, he rolls up a novelty tuxedo top to reveal he’s wired with clock-ticking explosives and yes, he’s robbing the joint…

There is no more thrilling play in sports than a game-winning Hail Mary touchdown pass in football, a play so rare, random and revered that it seemingly requires the divine hand to be completed. One of the greatest examples came in December 2015, when quarterback Aaron Rodgers...

What, Me Worry? The greatest exhibition this side of Alfred E. Neuman himself.

Superlatives
A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers.
If Kool Herc was rap’s Big Bang, then Run-D.M.C. was Apollo 11....

Eight decades ago, Ron Teasley, a teenage baseball player from Detroit, experienced an athletic achievement so tremendous that today, at 97 years old, he can still recall it vividly....

Esteemed rock critic looks back at the legacy of Bruce's biggest album and asks if the "Glory Days" ever existed...

More than half a century ago, Susie Hinton (soon to be known by her gender-neutral pen name) was a student at Will Rogers, where she received a D in creative writing because class assignments were nowhere near as important to her as working out the plot and characters of The Outsiders. The story would come to define her life—even though these days she would rather discuss just about anything else.

Get to know the personalized celebrity greeting company whose top earner is the legend Gilbert Gottfried. For the lover of Aladdin and The Aristocrats alike...

I wondered whatever became of my tennis teacher back in 1980s Billings Montana. Some 40 years later, I found out, and it ain't the sport she once dedicated her life to...

"Hot Dog Money" is best enjoyed as a bumbling black comedy that all started with embezzled funds to make the grade-D movie, "Mafia," starring Ving Rhames.

Mary Bacon lived a life nobody could imagine, nor would they want to. Truly tragically one-of-a-kind.

Admit it, you love Goldfish crackers. Everyone loves Goldfish crackers.

A terrific new biography of Pete Rose makes one thing clear, the "Hit King" is human garbage.

“Fixin’-to-Die-Rag” derailed his promising musical career. But it led Country Joe McDonald to become a fierce champion for Vietnam veterans...

In October 1981, Judge Thomas Johnson made an announcement. After deliberation, he had accepted a fact into judicial notice—a legal term for a fact accepted in a court as true without the need to produce evidence. The Holocaust, said Johnson, was an indisputable fact...