Perspiring reporter finds age is a state mind The music in Linn Morin’s workout class is loud. It’s a remix of some old disco songs, and the 20 or so men and women in the room are grooving to it. I mean, they’re really grooving to it. The biggest mistake one can make about Morin’s […]

What does $1,500 get you in blue jeans? One answer is 44 pairs of Wranglers. Another option: Four or five pairs of raw denim-a rigid, rugged, unrinsed jean for true connoisseurs-from Pure Blue Japan, Samurai, or any of the other excellent brands frequently hailed on Reddit’s /rawdenim subthread. A third, for a sophisticated rich-brat look, […]

This past spring, Marleen Brooks, a 37-year-old property manager in the small town of Park Hills, Missouri, came home to find a handwritten letter from a 90-year-old woman she had never met. It was just a few lines: “Would you consider to become my friend. I’m 90 years old — live alone and all my friends […]

WASHINGTON — In the winter of 1967, a customer walked into a luggage store in Pittsburgh in search of a bag of a certain size and composition. The suitcase was destined for a transatlantic flight, but before that flight, it had to be altered to accommodate a specially built device designed to serve a special […]