There was a time when graffiti was perceived to be a scourge, a public nuisance made by outlaws who sprayed their work on subway cars then slipped into the shadows, occasionally pursued by the police.

Modesto’s annual celebration of vintage chrome and cruising culture returns Friday, June 6, with a classic car parade that will shut down a busy stretch of McHenry Avenue for several hours. The parade ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The train passes by, much too slowly for those of us stuck at the train crossing. Car after car, little to break the monotony of black tankers and brown boxcars. There's a boxcar ...

THE STARS AND THE HISTORY. WHERE WAS MODESTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT? I THINK IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING THIS CULTURE ALIVE. DOWNTOWN ON 10TH AND 11TH STREETS. THIS IS OUR STORY. I MEAN, LEGITIMATELY, THERE’S ...

Inside Look is a Modesto Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. Take a trip back in time to a nostalgic Modesto. Stroll ...

Festivities include super-sized car cruise that will now include parts of D Street. Sure, the movie is called “American Graffiti,” but back in 1962, there were still a few open-minded renegades who ...

The underground graffiti movement took form in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Norman Mailer heralded the drawings as a vibrant form of urban art. But by the 1980s, graffiti covered almost every car, ...

I was 13 years old when “American Graffiti” hit movie theaters in the summer of 1973. A nerdy, awkward kid more in the mold of the movie’s Terry “The Toad” Fields than its more confident drag racing ...