Articles by Cara Giaimo

In some cities, temperatures may breach 120°F this week.

After a 500-year absence, two of the toothy mammals are now sniffing around a local pond.

It took a dedicated superfan 13 years to translate it.

You can see it from space.

Why not?

"The Wolf Dives Into the Water for Reflected Cheese," and other highlights of folktale categorization.

Led by beloved children's author Virginia Lee Burton, this group of mostly untrained women created immortal designs.

Give the people what they want!

The special-edition release is the first photoluminescent coin to ever enter circulation.

The world's least likely literacy ambassador is big and bristly and loves to kiss authority figures.

Fake it 'til you make it.

It's bodysurfing time at Medano Creek.

Take a minute and watch some tram bowling.

Economists and historians are connecting the early rise of organized crime with Sicily's citrus trade.

Giddings Square is getting sudsed nearly every week.

For the 125th anniversary of the L, the city's Transit Authority has put some old cars back on the tracks.

For the past 22 years, Kees Moeliker has commemorated the perverse death of one particular duck.

The grass was too long, and Thenius Wessels wasn't going to let a little bad weather stop him from making it shorter.

A who's who for the orca set.

A savvy, crazy successful publicity stunt made it seem like it was.

Charged with increasing the city's greenspace, a florist filled a public bus with plants.

Grad Jerich Alcantara made the most of a 2-hour subway delay.

Brian Sonia-Wallace is about to become the first-ever Writer-in-Residence at the Mall of America. And this isn't the first time he's snagged a corporate sponsorship.

BlessU-2 is meant to be controversial.