Apr 24th, 2008 · Robert Reed, keyboardist for go-go pioneers Trouble Funk, died last week of pancreatic cancer. He helped pioneer a kind of music that anyone who hasn't lived in Washington D.C. might never have had the funky pleasure of encountering.
Apr 21st, 2008 · Writer Eric Jerome Dickey has written a string of best-selling novels about contemporary African-American life. His latest work, Pleasure, is a story about love, jealousy, and obsession from a female point of view.
Apr 14th, 2008 · "Sing Again," from Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla, is two and a half minutes of pop pleasure, a bass-propelled brand extension stacked with harmonies, gratuitous helicopter noises, and an unmercifully catchy chorus.
Mar 11th, 2008 · As a young woman living in Paris in 1968, author Mireille Guiliano found friendship -- and frustration -- in Lily Bart, Edith Wharton's naïve, self-interested heroine who struggles to make decisions that are in her self-interest.
Jan 26th, 2008 · Ice skating is one of the great pleasures of winter. But the origin of the idea of attaching blades to our feet has not been well understood. Researchers at Oxford University think they may have an answer. Federico Formenti, co-author of the study called "Human Locomotion on Ice," says it all started in Finland.
Jan 15th, 2008 · If you want to people to enjoy your product, raise the price. Researchers asked people to taste wines with different price tags. The testers' brains showed more pleasure at higher prices than the lower ones, even for the same wine.
Jan 8th, 2008 · Have that burger, says author Michael Pollan, and honor the importance of pleasure in food. The author slices through the nutri-hype with his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Plus: Pollan reveals his own guilty pleasures.
Nov 29th, 2007 · One of the biggest professional football games of the year Dallas Cowboys vs. Green Bay Packers -- will likely not be available for your viewing pleasure Thursday night because of a dispute between the league and cable TV companies. Stefan Fatsis of The Wall Street Journal and Robert Siegel follow the money and weigh the arguments over who is the bad guy in this dispute.