"We are all so relieved that Hobo is back safe with his family!" Hobo, a deaf 8-year-old Australian Shepherd, is going to be kept on a very short leash from now on after surviving a 100 foot fall and ...

Forget coal, chalk or even magic-markers. The latest, and probably the greatest, way for hobos to communicate is, you guessed it, the iPhone 3GS. iHobo is a spoof augmented reality application for the ...

In Kyle Starks "Rock Candy Mountain," the harshness of life on the rails is not ignored. (Courtesy of William Kulesa) The concept of privacy and our ever shrinking access to true privacy is something ...

In 1915, Charlie Chaplin, to the delight of moviegoers, created “The Tramp,” an enduring image of the sooty and bumbling yet lovable vagrant. Although distinctions were drawn between hobos and tramps, ...

"There's nothing nobler than to put up with a few inconveniences like snakes and dust for the sake of absolute freedom." -- From "The Vanishing American Hobo" by Jack Kerouac Hobo poet James "Jimbow ...

Darrel "Tuck" Ray has caught the westbound train. That's the hobo community's way of saying that Ray, 58, has died. Named King of the Hobos several times, he died of lung cancer on June 20 at Our Lady ...

Your mortgage bill came today. The payment went up. The local energy company is asking for an increase, too. Property taxes are going up, the cost of food is rising, clothing is up, and getaway prices ...

The first time Hobo Johnson and his band the Lovemakers visited Chicago was in September for Riot Fest. Their set was a bonkers attack on the expectations of what acts should (or shouldn’t) do at the ...