Legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s daughter Emily Hornor Ma was recently married in the Berkshires, but asked her father not to play at her wedding because she wanted him to “just be a dad that night.” She ...

To most people, a yo-yo is just a toy. But to Gentry Stein, the whirling bundle of string, plastic, and precision ball-bearings can become much more in the right hands. “It is a simple toy,” he admits ...

For most of us, yo-yos are those toys from our childhood that we played with for approximately five minutes before the string got so infernally tangled that we could never play with it again. But ...

Every year on June 6, we celebrate National Yo-Yo Day. It coincides with the birthday of Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr, who in the 1930s, got into the yo-yo business. Yo-Yo was first sold in ...

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - AUGUST 09: Gentry Stein of USA, first placed, competes during the World Yo-Yo Contest 2014 on August 9, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. The World Yo-Yo Contest is the largest ...

As Faye Webster crept to the stage, the words held on everyone’s lips: what was this and what had we actually signed up for? Held Sept. 28 at Berkeley’s own Zellerbach Hall, her buzzy yoyo ...