Park Square Theatre announced Tuesday that artistic director Richard Cook will retire at the end of this summer after 43 years with the St. Paul theater. “Richard has led this theater from an 88-seat ...

Richard Cook, who began his 31-year career operating the steam train and monorail at Disneyland and helped build Disney’s vaunted distribution and marketing machine, is being handed the keys to the ...

Chef Lena Richard, her arms stout from decades of stirring and whisking, hoisted her suitcase packed with cane syrup, brown sugar, Louisiana pecans and 10 pounds of dried shrimp and got ready to leave ...

The name Lena Richard may no longer be familiar in New Orleans, but in 1949 before Julia Child was on PBS or Emeril Lagasse was a twinkle in the Food Network’s eye, there was “Mama Lena,” who taught ...

In 1949, as chef Lena Richard stirred steaming pots of okra gumbo and shrimp bisque on live TV in New Orleans, viewers across the city -- mostly white housewives and the few Black women who could ...