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The word "hippie" has been used to describe the sound and style of the indie music phenomenon Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros so often in reviews and profiles that it's now a suggested search term on Google. Of course, it's too narrow a description for the freewheeling folk rock...

Last year, sportswriter King Kaufman stepped up to the lectern at a symposium held on the Google campus. In a 14-year haul at Salon.com, Kaufman earned a reputation as one of the best and most cerebral sports journalists on the Internet. But his subject that day was his new job,...

Visitors to the State Fair of Texas will have to wait at least a year before they can use their iPhones to instantly locate the closest fried cookie dough stand. State fairs in Ohio and Indiana this week announced plans to roll out iPhone apps that will allow users to...

Sergeant Vince Ariaz liked what he saw in 15-year-old "Maggie." Eager to please, in awe of police work and seeking a trustworthy authority figure in her life, the shy brunette was an ideal fit for the Brownwood, Texas, Police Department's Explorer program. With nearly 2,000 law-enforcement Explorer posts and upward...

In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in theater and Hispanic studies, she'd mostly cobbled together part-time jobs—waitressing, teaching Spanish, coaching high school speech. Olson was looking at nanny listings on Craigslist.org when she came...

It's possible that a sense of humor has joined common sense on the endangered species list of American foibles. Not that anybody's noticed, mind you, but when a pair of wise-cracking DJs get canned for a practical joke--and not a very original one at that--well, it may be time to...