scalping

In a shaky economy, you might be tempted to moonlight as a scalper for extra cash. Brittany Menard, author of "The Ticket Broker Guide," offers advice on how to do it right. Here's what you need to know to conquer the ticket trade part time.

Chef and restaurateur Grant Achatz is known for the ultra-pricey, fantastically complex food at his flagship Alinea restaurant, where he coined the term "molecular gastronomy." At his new restaurant concept, Next, things were supposed to be different.

When a former congressional aide tried to scalp tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration, which she was receiving free from her old boss, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), her only mistake was going on Craigslist.org and making the whole thing public. Many Republicans who recieved tickets to the...