Lucius Beebe News Today

Reno’s notorious mid-century divorce ranches are back in the spotlight. The Nevada Historical Society will present What Was Really Going On At Those Nevada Divorce Ranches? Fact and Fiction next month as part of its popular Writer’s Wednesday series.

One evening last week, a small, elegantly groomed man with thinning black hair, a limp, and the smile of a tired elf, took a party…

(See Cover) Only a fraction of British man power—less than 1,000,000 men—is in uniform. Full-time “war work” for British women therefore means little more than…

Frontier luminaries Buffalo Bill and Tom Mix spread its fame, but everyday cowboys made it their own.

Bloody Mary Day 2024: On National Bloody Mary Day, people drink the Bloody Mary cocktail, which is said by some to be the best way to get over a hangover.

The Nevada Appeal, the Silver States oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.

NEW YORK — Shermane Billingsley was barely 2 years old when Broadway gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen revealed that Shermane was bedridden with a fever of 104. Less than a year later, Walter Winchell reported that Shermane had vamped to an inquiring columnist, “I will break your heart someday with my big blue eyes!”

The nightspot her father opened as a Prohibition-era speakeasy endured as a Manhattan institution until 1965. For decades she was “the keeper of the flame.”

Celebrate spring at Piper’s Opera House with an USO-WWII “Big Band” Glenn Miller evening starring the Retro Dolls—Andrews Sisters; the Kiddos of Storey County Schools and a special guest appearance of Josephine Baker in the personage of Ms. Jakki Ford.

Its a busy weekend around Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region, with Colorados only Tulip Festival among the best bets.