If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with…” well, you know the rest. Fields meant it as a joke—a jab at showmen who used flash to hide a lack of substance. But every now and then, ...

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W.C. Fields was a sloshed-out comic genius who couldn't help but take his work home with him—and suffered the grim consequences because of it. 'Gringos leave': Protests targeting travelers rise as ...

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The 2025 W.C. Handy Music Festival is happening at several venues throughout the Shoals from Friday, July 18, through Tuesday, July 29, with other pre-events kicking off this week. The following list ...

Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb has struck a deal with one of the District's landlords, William C. Smith & Co., Inc. (W.C. Smith), in a groundbreaking settlement over a rental price-fixing scheme.

On my week off last month, I fulfilled a longtime wish by visiting two repertory movie houses in L.A., both of them owned by Quentin Tarantino: the New Beverly in the Fairfax District and the Vista ...