During the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, some people turned back to the land.

“How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need” recently topped the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list only a few weeks after its publication. Bill Gates — co-founder of Microsoft and of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — has previously addr…

Growing up watching his father and grandfather run a business sparked an interest in Luke Bietz.

People traded in their bunny ears for masks this Easter weekend.

Last Friday evening the lobby of the local movie multi-plex was as busy as I’ve seen it in over a year. As winter fades and people get their inoculations, the world seems about ready to come alive again. Thankfully.

What do a pizza pan and cake pan have in common? A person can make inexpensive, cute signs and wreaths with these simple household items.

“An Opportunity to be Better” is a beautiful book built around a touching story. It is both local and international, historical and contemporary. The core story centers upon the relationship between a small Kansas town and a French village in the late 1940s. The town was Morganville, in Clay…

Patty Reece, proprietor of the Volland Store, views the gallery as a crossroads.

Marvin Hachmeister said he likes the social aspect of running.

Children have a way of wandering through doorways in literature, into the likes of Narnia, Wonderland and any number of other fantastical lands. They tend to stumble in unwittingly, wander about for a bit and eventually find a quest or heroic task set upon them.

Benedict Cumberbatch’s many fans will be pleased with the new movie “The Courier.” Sometimes actors need to take roles because they give them chances to show what they can do. This Cold War drama not only required the oddly named one to be shaved almost bald and to lose some weight, but it a…

As a child, Philip Nel wrote and illustrated his own stories, giving him the notion early in life to create something another person might read someday.

The organizers of a 31-mile foot race through the hills of the Konza Prairie say they likely will bring the rugged spring run back next year.

“The Daughters of Yalta” is the gripping story of the Yalta Conference in Feb. 4-11, 1945, between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union strongman Josef Stalin to decided the postwar future of Europe.

The title of the new film “Long Weekend” will suggest to some movie-goers that the action takes place on one of our Saturday-Sunday-Monday holiday vacations. But that isn’t it. Then, of course, there’s the time-travel component in the story.

If you’ve been to a show at Manhattan Arts Center in the last couple of years, you’ve probably seen Audrey Artis.

If asked to think of a family name to stand in for an expression of royal power, you could do far worse than the Habsburgs. The family kept royal power of some kind for almost 1,000 years, from Kanzelin (died 990) to Emperor Karl, who presided over the Austrian Empire’s complete dissolution …

The obvious lesson for filmmakers in the new science fiction thriller “Chaos Walking” is that sound recording is especially important to a story about hearing.

As she created a colorful frog on Saturday morning on the sidewalk in City Park, people marveled at Tessa Anderson’s drawing.

Probably the important thing to remember as you watch the odd new hit film “Nomadland,” is that its central character, Fern, has shaped her life with conscious choice. Hers is not a set of duties forced onto her by circumstance. And she is not a dope, or a dope taker. She is deliberately cho…

“A Delayed Life” is a new memoir by Dita Kraus, whose life was previously told in fictional form in “The Librarian of Auschwitz” by Antonio Iturbe. Her memoir tells the full story of her life in her own words and offers a unique perspective on her existence in the concentration and work camp…

After reaching a milestone in February of practicing law for 50 years, Jim Morrison, 74, said a mixture of his can-do personality and connections with his longtime clients and partners help motivate him to keep going.

If you’ve ever wondered why the eagles in “The Lord of the Rings” didn’t simply fly Frodo to Mordor, then “The Storm Crow” by Kalyn Josephson is the book for you.

TikTok has selected local musician and pastor JahVelle Rhone for an incubator program involving 100 Black creators.

When I was a kid, my dad, who was a high school journalism teacher, once in a while would arrange for his newspaper class to go to a midnight movie.

Editor’s note: The Mercury is publishing love stories in place of the weekly Our Neighbors profiles during February.

Manhattan Arts Center’s production of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” stays true to the story while making some adjustments, so it is easier for modern audiences to understand.

Before there was Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Paige, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a black gospel and blues artist from the Mississippi Delta who with her trusty Gibson SG was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the Godmo…