When it comes to exercise, escapism is the order of the day. Aerial acrobatics, once the preserve of sequin-clad circus performers, offer an exhilarating alternative to a trip to the gym.

Chat Roulette is a new video-enabled chat room that pairs strangers for fleeting conversations, ensuring that the culture of Internet exhibitionism is alive and giggling. It’s creating some major buzz—and gross-outs.

Beginning next July, California dry cleaners will be forced to ban chemicals solvents, joining many dry cleaners who have already done so. But environmentalists and experts question the real definition of organic dry cleaning.

Fewer Armenian goldsmiths and jewelry makers are teaching their children the trade. Will an ancient art be lost?

Competitive table tennis has become more popular on campus. Teams from 40 universities will go head-to-head in April at the annual College Table Tennis National Championships. May the best chop block win.

Vegetarian and natural culinary academies are no longer niche, as interest in healthy eating expands. Enrollment and course offerings are growing, even attracting chefs from mainstream meateries.

While middle-aged women still fight the onset of gray, young women have actually begun to dye their hair gray by choice—as a fashion statement.

The growing presence of Facebook is interfering with romantic relationships, particularly when it comes time to break things off.

Beekeeping has been illegal in New York City since 1999, when bees were added to a list of over 100 wild animals prohibited within city limits along with cheetahs, scorpions and elephants. Despite the ban, an underground community of beekeepers is producing and selling contraband local honey.

An increasing number of people are combining conventional heating methods, such as an oil furnace, with nontraditional methods, such as heating stoves and pellet stoves, in an effort to buffer against frigid temperature and the fluctuating nature of oil prices. The shift is being spurred by a tough economic climate and the federal government’s tax credit for eco-friendly wood stoves and pellet stoves.