Just in time to deflect attention from real issues such as the Gulf oil spill comes a pressing new crisis: Silly Bandz. Schools across the country have banned the popular rubber bracelets ...

The Bandz are now contraband. Schools in several states, including New York, Texas, Florida and Massachusetts, have blacklisted Silly Bandz, those stretchy, colorful bracelets that are creeping up ...

Kids have gone crazy for Silly Bandz, and they wear them everywhere — except, in more and more cases, to school. As the academic year gets underway, administrators across the country are banning ...

Childlike wonder bounds across the seven-song project, from the Dr. Seuss-themed title to the bubbly synths and references to Silly Bandz. But it was “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake,” named after the ...

Origins: Just as hula hoops, yo-yos, Tamagotchis, and Pokemon cards were the playground fads for their generations, Silly Bandz have become "must have" items of the day for today's younger set.