LEXINGTON — While in Columbia last month opening for Hootie & the Blowfish, Barenaked Ladies lead singer Ed Robertson ran a few errands. He got his hair cut — and he bought spare parts for his ...

It’s getting ever harder to build a truly unique digital clock. From electronic displays to the flip-dots and flip-cards, everything seems to have been done to death. But this pinball scoring reel ...

South Carolina has lost one of its pinball wizards. Marc Mandeltort, who founded an internationally renowned pinball machine parts company, died Dec. 19 “peacefully in his sleep,” his family said. He ...

Tim Arnold has been collecting and repairing rare pinball machines for decades. Now he’s looking for a protege to take the reins – otherwise it’s game over Tim Arnold prizes his pinball machines.

Pinball machines are a study in distraction, throwing up bright bells and whistles in order to distract the player from where their ball's location. But behind the sights and sounds, simple mechanics ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, if you lost a quarter to a mercilessly tough pinball machine, you likely lost it to a game designed by one of the four big players: Stern, Williams, Bally, or ...

Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude Stein’s ...