Patrick Sauer

The new NatGeo doc “Sally” tells the story of America’s first female astronaut. The heart and soul is Tam O’Shaughnessy, her (publicly secret) partner in all things including tennis. A Second Serve chat about her amazing life.

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...

When I got this gig, I’d never heard of the Moomins. It’s an incredible saga about an incredible woman, Tove Jansson, and her wild imagination. Dig in. Trust me.

Billings-born tenor rocks The Metropolitan Opera in Moby-Dick—but that’s only part of the story…

Last Thanksgiving, on a family getaway to Miami, I was confronted with a question that I’d never considered but haven’t been able to get out of my head since: How is it possible for a man to look good sprawled out on a beach in a three-piece suit? Complete with a fedora, no less?

The Philadelphia 76ers won only one title with Julius Erving and Moses Malone. It was enough.

Book Review: The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay, by Christopher Clarey…

Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver—the master of the toe-to-toe spit-flying umpire argument—was ahead of his time, a true baseball genius, no matter how many beers and cigarettes the night before

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...

I reviewed the ~other~ new book about Carlitos. It’s better than his last one about Novak!

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.

On the second Monday of December, a holiday party was thrown in Detroit the likes of which hasn’t been seen in close to a century…

“Detroit is having a moment.”

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

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...

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