It’s a question protagonist Monkey D. Luffy asks in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the immensely popular manga One Piece, and it’s at the heart of recent reconceptions of pirates in popular ...

Though swashbuckling bandits have not roamed the high seas in centuries, a culture-wide fascination with pirates and their exciting feats still pervades. Bolstered by the success of recent franchises ...

If we think of "pirates" at all these days, we may visualize fictional brigands with bandanas or three-pointed black hats on their heads, wearing black eye-patches and wielding cutlasses, with a ...

Utility players are all the rage in baseball, especially with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates have more than a dozen players in their spring training camp who can play multiple positions, and they ...

Had Rupert Holmes’s career ended in the early ’80s, he would be most widely remembered for “(Escape) The Piña Colada Song,” a lovably hokey pop single that was his biggest hit as a singer/songwriter.

Maritime piracy conjures up scenes from Robert Louis Stevenson novels and Errol Flynn movies, a 17th-century phenomenon that went out with ships under sail. But if you believe that piracy is an ...

Modern day piracy is alive and well on the open seas. A recent Navy seizure notice shed light on the litany of illegal goods being trafficked. "As long as ships go to sea, there's gonna be piracy," a ...

A federal appeals court panel says a group of anti-whaling protesters based out of Friday Harbor are “modern-day pirates” and ordered them to halt their aggressive and high-profile attacks of Japanese ...