During a hike of about 20 miles, the OP camped overnight about halfway through. While crossing what seemed like another ...

In his stand-up comedy special "New in Town," comedian John Mulaney joked about the oversaturation of quicksand on childhood TV shows: "I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger ...

Getting trapped in quicksand is a corny peril of old movies and TV shows, but it really did happen to one unfortunate hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park. The park famous for dozens of natural, ...

When a show is called The Accident, you know something very bad is going to happen, and when it opens with a kids' birthday party, you know it's probably going to be extra bad. While on vacation, I ...

Just after noon on the day before Thanksgiving 2011, 25-year-old NOLS student Rob Tesar unwittingly walked into quicksand in the Utah backcountry. Half a day later, he was still stuck upright, trying ...

Falling into quicksand isn't quite as bad as some movies make it out to be. Instead of being sucked all the way in, quicksand victims will float once they get about waist deep, according to a new ...

I’ve never read a Tanizaki novel that was absent of merit or one that I did not enjoy. His breezy style, coupled with his moments of humor, make all of his books entertaining on one level, yet he also ...

At a time when experimentation and exploration are the norm in pop music, no band has been able to make such memorable music out of such seemingly disparate and incompatible elements as Chicago’s ...