Americans Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick — two of the world’s fastest skaters 10 years ago —  were both scheduled for the 1500-meter speed skating event in the 2006 Winter Olympics. For weeks before the match, they bickered in

“I’m in no shape to exercise.” Overhearing this sentence in a coffee shop, I glanced over to see an obese fellow holding a gooey pastry and a drink topped with whipped cream. He and his buddy laughed, but there

Several years ago, I joined a small group visiting the set of Saturday Night Live after its Friday night rehearsal. During the visit, executive producer Lorne Michaels discussed SNL’s creative process — emphasizing that the show’s extraordinarily tight schedule

The surveillance cameras throughout the streets of Amsterdam looked really boring to Jill Magid, a conceptual artist. So for her next street-art project, Jill wanted to decorate those dull cameras with rhinestones. But when she presented her plan to