PARK CITY, Utah—The world lost a genius when Paul Reubens died in 2023 at the age of 70, but he gets to tell his story—both ...

One of the pivotal turns in Paul Reubens’s life happened years before Pee-wee Herman, years before the “Playhouse,” years before the arrests. It was the mid-seventies, and Reubens was in his early ...

The late Paul Reubens made sure he got the final word when it came to his much-debated but never openly acknowledged sexuality. The beloved actor came out as a gay man in the posthumous documentary, ...

Pee-wee Herman, created and portrayed by Paul Reubens, is a truly unique and quirky character in pop culture. The character would debut on stage before breaking into mainstream fame with Pee-wee's Big ...

The man staring into the camera is not Pee-wee Herman. He may look a little like him, kinda sorta sound like him, have that same sly, agent-of-chaos-reporting-for-duty-sir smirk. But he is not the man ...

Countless memes exist about how Gen X is a tough, often overlooked generation, and there are a million more memes about how we're also an apathetic generation (say whatever you want about us, I don't ...

"I was born in 1938 in a little house on the edge of the Mississippi River; my father worked on a steamboat and his name was Steamboat Milton," says Paul Reubens by way of misdirection in Matt Wolf's ...

This story is part of our Best Things in Texas package, which appeared in the December 2025 issue. For the last year or so I was busy with an unusual project: writing the interpretive panels for the ...