The Philadelphia Contraption Contest went dormant during the pandemic. It took an experimental theater company to bring it back.

CHICAGO — Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was best known for his depictions of complicated contraptions with far too many moving parts built to solve the simplest of problems. These “Rube ...

See the adventures of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, Rube Goldberg's protagonist in many of his 50,000 cartoons, in a new book of Goldberg's art.

Let's say that President George W. Bush, as part of a new tax-cut plan, was to propose a graduated series of tax rebates based on (A) your oldest child's height divided by the weight of the family cat ...

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