“If you walk down the halls of high school everyone is whistling. There are so many people whistling and you don’t really expect it,” says Lily Bennett. “All the teachers are like, ‘Stop whistling.'” ...

Remember Harris Mackim from Catcher in the Rye? You probably don’t remember his name. I didn’t either, and I spent years of my adolescence reading and re-reading Salinger. But if you read the book ...

I never could whistle as a kid. It was one of my biggest disappointments. Every night when my dad got back from work, he would whistle like a little bird, announcing to us — my sister and me — that he ...

Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’ questions. Tell him about your lifelong or ...

In the D.C. region, conversations often start with, “What do you do?” WTOP’s series “Working Capital” profiles the people doing the work that makes the region unique. Some people whistle while they ...

I think that it is strange that you don’t hear people whistling anymore. I grew up hearing people whistling. As a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of whistling myself and, for some unknown reason, I ...