Steve Herbst wants whistling to make a comeback. Not the doorman-getting-a-cab kind, or the whoo-whee sounds most often used to convey amazement. Herbst is talking about professional whistling, the ...

Actor Donal Logue once said in the 2000 film The Tao of Steve, “Everyone is good at something, just figure out what you're excellent at.” Personally, I hate that... Actor Donal Logue once said in the ...

Dick Shaw gives new meaning to the phrase: “whistle while you work.” That’s because whistling is Shaw’s work; he’s a professional whistler. “I’ve always whistled, even as a little kid,” said the ...

David Morris does more than whistle while he works - whistling is his work. After being crowned World Whistling Champion in 2003, David gave up his job in sales and transformed his dinner party trick ...

Nine-year-old Svara Menon, a resident of Karnataka capital Bengaluru, recently achieved success at the 46th World Whistling Championship in Kawasaki, Japan, held from May 30 to June 2. Competing in ...

John Osborne has always hated the sound of whistling. But it wasn’t until a man whistling in a café infuriated him so much that he got up and left that he realised it was becoming a problem. Could he ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the most celebrated pieces of advice in movies is wrong. It’s Lauren Bacall telling Humphrey Bogart how ...