Though a great film essentially requires fantastic performances from its actors, those performances and their respective actors alone cannot make the film great. Herein lies the problem with Pretty ...

September has been a busy month for chef Viet Pham. Earlier this month, he opened the fourth location of his Pretty Bird fried-chicken restaurant chain, in Midvale. And in the last week of the month, ...

Mid-May is the peak of the season in Northeast Ohio for birdwatchers hoping to see the array of birds on their travels northward. However, a new study from the University of Toledo finds that ...

At Sundance a few years ago I caught a film called Pretty Bird, directed by actor Paul Schneider, that was about a group of misfit scientists and businessmen who decide to build a working ...

Look, I’m a huge advocate for bone-in fried chicken. And normally, that’s what I would tell you to try here — and you should try it. But at Pretty Bird, chef/owner Viet Pham has painstakingly worked ...

UPPER PENINSULA — In the Keweenaw Peninsula, Rick Baetsen knelt on an old log. He started beating his knee with his hand, faster and faster. “I’d really be ticked if someone were kneeling on my ...

It's been a cold winter in Washington, D.C., but over at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, there's a flutter of exotic real and imaginary birds, created by 12 contemporary artists, in an exhibit ...

Kathy Mattea has been successfully making music for a long time. Her first gold album came out in 1987. She won her first Grammy in 1990. For a while, she was putting out albums every year or two. But ...

There's a soft magic to birdwatching: a sudden flutter in a hedgerow, the silhouette (and sound) of a song thrush at dawn, or the shimmering flash of a kingfisher darting downriver. It’s no wonder, ...