The Great American Dodgeball Bash at Kiwanis Park Recreation Center managed to draw what, to me at least, seemed a huge turnout. It was a tournament-style, double-elimination contest, with the open-division winning team walking...

The author of Stiff, a history of the scientific life of cadavers, is at it again. The title of Mary Roach's latest book is enough to catch anyone's interest. It's edgy, offbeat...

When asked how he created his sculptures, the Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni reputedly replied: "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." The ability to...