It was hard to find a louder football stadium than the Astrodome in the late 1970s. The likes of Earl Campbell and Elvin Bethea had plenty to do with that Luv Ya Blue fervor, but some of the credit ...

In this case, it's the oil drilling ecosystem that draws workers and billionaires alike to Texas. Series co-creator Christian Wallace is the man on set who keeps things realistic. Wallace was the host ...

‘Hey, Dirt, so . . . why do they call you Dirt?” “Well . . . when I was working offshore I used to get real dirty so they called me Dirt.” And so it goes. Because, why else would someone pick up a ...

Joe Roughneck’s battered mug first appeared as the advertising face of an oilfield tubular goods manufacturer before becoming an industry award in 1955. His bust has been presented to top independent ...

Stillwater is about an oil rig worker in Oklahoma named Bill Baker. He travels to France to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who has been in prison for the past few years. She is serving time ...

If you climb the concrete stairs to the top of Mustang Stadium, one of the highest points in Andrews, Texas, and look in nearly any direction, past the parking lot and asphalt loop surrounding the ...

A few years ago, musician Brad Jackson decided to transform his scraggly whiskers into a kick-ass beard. He sees the male mane as “something we earn as we age, an accomplishment that we as men can all ...

The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to the playoffs, and Jeff Lemire is ecstatic. All right, the team is technically still one agonizing point away from clinching a spot, but Lemire, sitting in his east ...

Socially and politically, Matt Damon sits on the opposite end of the spectrum from Bill Baker. That’s the character the actor portrays in Stillwater, writer-director Tom McCarthy’s dramatic thriller ...

Western movie legend John Wayne developed the genre in a way that cemented him in film history forever. He wasn’t shy in acknowledging his own impact on the Western hero’s definition in the media, as ...