The first time I gave any thought to the term was when I watched some of the great old film noir movies about gangsters. It seemed like almost every gang was victimized by one. I am referring here to ...

The snitch, that much-maligned, usually marginalized staple figure of crime fiction, receives sympathetic centerstage treatment in compelling Hong Kong-set police meller “The Stool Pigeon.” Latest ...

Smarting with as much psychological as physical bruising, "The Stool Pigeon" is an action film with a grave, melancholic strain. By Maggie Lee, The Associated Press HONG KONG — Smarting with as much ...

During the early 1800s, American hunters, in the not-so-subtle process of blasting billions of passenger pigeons into extinction, would attract their quarry with decoy pigeons. (Warning — Gruesome ...

Many individuals erroneously interpret the above term from the Joe Valachi testimony about the Mafia in the Kefauver congressional hearings in the 1950s. Other famous “snitches,” traitors, informers, ...

A few weeks back, when the Stool Pigeon issued a call for cocktail recommendations, he figured he’d get some tips about good drinks and good places to drink them. The Press-Register’s intrepid bar ...

Having gotten it into his head to initiate a search for the perfect cocktail, the Press-Register’s intrepid master of the bar beat knew he couldn’t just sit around watching Facebook and Twitter, ...

If you're a longtime FADER reader and remember being bummed out around the beginning of 2007 after reading our bit about UK-based magazine Stool Pigeon and not being able find it anywhere, you're now ...