With the Bowery Hotel now open, Gothamist thought it was worth taking one final look at the Bowery of the 1970s and '80s through the lens of Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New ...

In February 1950, LIFE published a feature on what the magazine called “the gold-bricking existence” of ski bums at Sun Valley, Idaho. Eight months later, in its August 28 issue, LIFE published a ...

The word “bum” has two major meanings. One is pejorative and refers to the unfortunate among us who find themselves homeless and out of work. That particular term has properly fallen out of use.

It's two o'clock on a Saturday afternoon in June, four hours before the first pitch, and five Beach Bums are already lounging around their windowless, concrete dressing room at MCU Park in Coney ...

He’s only a short, golf-cart jaunt away from the manicured lawns of the historic Warner Bros. studios, but Joe Mantegna is lost in his family theme park of Vienna Beef, Maxwell Street Polish and Eli’s ...

When Democrats won four of five state executive offices, including governor, last November to end the GOP's 12-year total control of state government, a local political sage just shrugged. "Out with ...