Will buying educational toys make your kid a genius -- or just leave you broke? Author Susan Gregory Thomas cuts through the baby-business babble.

Those trippy puppets have had some really strange encounters through the years.

Fascinating world views from the smoke-filled streets of Brussels to a Big Bird sitting in Central Park

I'll take "a surprisingly versatile host" for $400, please!

Thirty years after the release of "Out of Time," here's why the upbeat, earnest song still enjoys love & respect

Salon Sneak Peek: a daily book review -- Sexplorations: Journeys to the Erogenous Frontier, by Anka Radakovich.

A Goldman Sachs tell-all gets panned for the wrong reasons, showing how financial journalists are in bed with CEOs

Visitors had the opportunity to take in the museum’s paintings and sculptures without clothes

Elmo, Oscar the Grouch and the Count were accompanied by toy instruments

Ten-year-old Aiden Vazquez refused to engage in a fight at school, because he said doing so was" not the Jedi way"

An octogenarian who likes to mow his lawn in the nude gets a year in jail for assaulting an officer.

That year altered my worldview as an autistic teenager obsessed with the Bush-Gore race and its results

Romney's casual dismissal of the PBS star shows how deeply we need our feathered friend

MTV2's "Wonder Showzen" aims to do for childhood innocence what "Chappelle's Show" did for racial sensitivity. Just don't call it "'Sesame Street' on acid."

Miss Piggy joins a list including Sandra Day O’Connor, Toni Morrison and Anita Hill