As the holiday season and the end of finals approaches, I have to think about what to get those hard-to-buy-for family members this year. It's always a struggle to try to come up with a thoughtful, useful gift for the parent or sibling who seem to already have all of their toys, or power [...]

In the midst of a party with friends Saturday night, a handful of us huddled around my 8-year-old stereo in my neighbor's apartment. It's a three-disc, two-cassette deck 50w detached double speaker system with auxiliary input. The radio tuner is rarely used now, a drastic change from when it sat in my bedroom at my [...]