Gift-giving isn't about giving. It's about us, the gift-givers. Everything's about us. We don't care if our recipients want what we're buying, will use what we're buying or even if they'll keep what ...

Local snow sculptors Zachary Rueter, Dave Andrews, Jessie Barr and Gina Diliberti call themselves The Yodeling Pickles, influenced by their mutual admiration for pickles and the yodeling experiences ...

The White Elephant gift exchange is a high-stakes social battlefield. Your entire holiday reputation rests on the one weird, wonderful, or utterly useless item you place on that pile. There's a ...

Where else can you adorn yourself with pickle chip earrings, pick up a pickle-shaped Christmas ornament and hear an electronic yodeling pickle but at the 32nd Annual National Linwood Pickle Festival?

Is there anything more annoying than the ceaseless build-up to Black Friday shopping? Yes! The ceaseless build-up to Cyber Monday, the virtual holiday celebrating online gluttony, as opposed to the ...

From Mother Teresa breath spray to a screaming rubber chicken, manufacturers come up with stockings full of stupid gifts in time for the holidays with one Web site dedicated to finding the most ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) asked the community for help to care for two dogs who suffered gunshot wounds. Two dogs were admitted to APA!'s clinic to recover from two separate shootings.