As I sat down at my desk this morning to write this article, something caused me to take stock of everything on it. A computer, of course, reading glasses, assorted labels and stationery, a couple of ...

Pipes shedding stodgy image after decades of decline. Handsome hand made pipes by Richard Lewis, a Minneapolis pipe maker and seller. Courtesy George Lewis — -- Pipe smoking had long gone the way ...

It was a very special moment in any young man’s life: buying his first pipe. On a recent Saturday afternoon, 25-year-old Ben Darge stood at the counter of Iwan Ries, which bills itself as America’s ...