Among the most infamous were the Mississippi River pirates, including a band based in Houston County, Minn. Well-known were the early-1800s exploits of pirate brothers Jean and Pierre LaFitte around ...

Target Margin Theater stages a radical reinterpretation of the classic Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical at NYU Skirball.

This minimalist staging strips ‘Show Boat’ to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to ...

Even if you know beforehand that the Target Margin production you’re attending will be an experimental reboot of “Show Boat,” ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Before many people had even heard of Louisiana’s largest coast restoration project, George Ricks set out to kill it. “It was ...

I was the captain of the boat. But they did not give me good information ... down Lake Michigan to the Chicago River and to ...

I’m following Jonathan Davis into the early morning fog. Davis is Bisso Towboat Co.’s vice president of training, and we’re ...

Since then, my editor, Judy Clabes, has graciously reprinted the 235 columns scribbled before a dark mist clouded our lives like shut-out fog on the Upper Mississippi ... must take sooner or later.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Abandoned and derelict boats may have an ongoing presence on the Willamette River, but Multnomah County’s River Patrol Unit reports that a good chunk of these illegal ...

Former Eden Prairie resident recalls a memorable 1979 Mississippi River steamboat trip with President Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn, ...