The story of the British matchstick girls who in 1888 took strike action against the dominating, patriarchal world of matchstick making isn’t well known. But these were the women who worked 14 hours a ...

What: ‘Drop Everything’ at The Meeting, presented by Aspen Skiing Co. 9 p.m. Double Feature: Arcadia,’ Transworld Snowboarding; ‘R3boot,’ Shredbots; music by Berkel Beats with Sunfeathr at Belly Up ...

Richard Plaud labored 4,200 hours over eight years to painstakingly transform more than 700,000 matchsticks into a 23½-foot-tall model of the Eiffel Tower, driven by a goal he had held since he was a ...

It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...