The young ladies in this video demonstrate that just because Summer's giving up her fight doesn't mean that fun and games have to go into hibernation as well. more ›

When it comes right down to it, most people are bad neighbors. They are selfish with parking spaces, they erect fences between one another's equally average property (it's not as if you're going to strike oil on your side, buddy) and they will rarely buy something from your child, unless it's Girl Scout cookies. more ›

It’s all fun and games until someone calls sell-out, but how is almost every artist not a sell-out when it comes to putting tunes behind a commercial these days? From the use of “Lust for Life” to get us aboard a Royal Caribbean Cruise to Wilco shilling for Volkswagen, what are the best or worst songs used in commercials? Mark Caro wants your comments about that over at his blog, Pop Machine. Do we care... more ›

Hey, we just had an idea — don't spray pepper spray in a school filled with young children! (Or, incidentally, at a party filled with drunk college students dressed in 80s fashion; we speak from personal experience.) more ›

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where to... more ›

Plenty of people have had one of those moments where they thought for sure that bottle of generic Vicodin said to "Take four with bottle of pinot grigio," but it turns out that kind of behavior could actually cause some serious problems. more ›

First it was Mark Buehrle, who the Sox fined for using the on-field tarp as a Slip-N-Slide during a rain delay on Sunday. Buehrle told the media after the game, "I don't know if I should be talking about this. I got in trouble. … I can't be out there anymore and I can't have any fun." more ›

Unless it involves children, consumers seem somewhat apathetic to the recall of goods nowadays. When someone smells cleaning supplies in the soda aisle of your local grocery store, however, there is luckily still a reaction. more ›

If you watched Sunday's Wind Bowl, you may have noticed that John St. Clair started at right tackle in place of Fred Miller, ending Miller's 102-game streak of consecutive starts. When first reported, the fractured jaw that was expected to cost Miller at least 2 games was caused by a fall at home last Monday. However, a little different story unfolded yesterday. Seems that the broken jaw actually was the result of an Olin Kreutz... more ›