I lived a placid childhood in an interior suburb of Houston, in a green neighborhood with an annual decorate-your-bicycle parade on the 4th of July. The summers were sweltering hot and spent outside, ...

The producer of a farting iPhone app is making a legal stink over another flatulence app in a looming trademark battle over the phrase, "pull my finger." A trademark dispute over the rights to the ...

In stressful situations, some people keep calm and carry on. Others scream and punch the walls. My coping mechanism is more . . . idiosyncratic. Under the cosh, I pluck my hair – tuft after tuft ...

I follow the receptionist through the turquoise and white blowout bar past the counter where women perch sipping Bellinis while their hair is dying and their nails are drying. She seats me at a ...