Kathleen Madigan is just here for the jokes. In her 25-plus year career in stand-up comedy, she has bypassed the coveted sitcom and movie route that so many comedians strive for and stayed doing what she really loves instead – simply standup. It i...

"I want to be really rich and live on a farm with a bunch of horses — which is my main best animal — and have three yachts or more and diamonds and jewels and all that stuff." — Erin Blackwell, known as Tiny, from the 1984 documentary Streetwise T...

When Victoria Moran decided to go vegan in 1983, the decision was such an anomaly that the local paper in the western suburb of Chicago where she was living did a full story about her “odd” lifestyle choice, with photos and everything, she says. F...

In his latest book, How To Be Great At Doing Good: Why Results Are What Count, and How Smart Charity Can Change The World, Nick Cooney, Director of Education at the non-profit animal advocacy organization, Mercy for Animals, is offering a “complac...

As an early champion of undercover investigations on factory farms, animal activist, best-selling author and co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, Gene Baur has testified in court before state, local and federal legislative bodies on his fin...

If just one image from the photo exhibit "Cuba: Contrasting Visions" can cause a pause in the drone of excited conversations and consistent media narrative of "vintage cars and fine cigars" that has occurred since proposed new rules were put in pl...