Most zippers are just there, on jeans & coats, whatever. But they weren't always seen so innocently. When zippers first appeared, some people thought they were too suggestive. Here's the story of how ...

Squirrel Nut Zippers came together with the greatest of ease. Their hit came even more easily, with a song Tom Maxwell claims to have dashed off in 15 minutes. Most effortless of all was their breakup ...

Take a look at a zipper on any given pair of pants and chances are it’s inscribed with the letters “YKK,” an acronym stamped on some 7 billion zippers a year. Every one of them is manufactured by a ...

“I’d have to be the guitar player,” she says, “and I don’t really have any of that material worked up. I don’t believe we’ll get into any of that stuff, but I don’t know, maybe we will. It doesn’t ...

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Teenagers have found a new way to amuse themselves: Stealing people’s backpack zippers. Not just any zippers, specifically Nike Elite backpack zippers. Why? You’ll have to ask a teenage boy that one.