The organization Margo St. James founded in 1973 was called COYOTE — short for Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics — but she and her associates also referred to themselves as a “loose union of women” or, winkingly, a “union of loose women.” Ms. St. James, a self-described...

Q: On Christmas my grandma was checking out a noise in her yard on Christmas Eve when she apparently got run over by Santa Claus. The hoof prints in the snow checked out as reindeer tracks, and the fact that they (and the sleigh tracks) started inexplicably 15 feet in...

News of the eviction of chef Jason McLelland from Grunt, his tiny Mechanicsville eatery, has prompted a number of individuals to come forward, alleging that they, like landlord Angela Ienzi, are owed longstanding debts of thousands of dollars. McLelland, who was...