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Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it. For example, 49% of Americans play video games, but only 10% identify as gamers. According to a recent survey we conducted, there’s ...

Photo by Rebecca J. Barnabi. Now retired, “The Staunton, Virginia Bathroom Reader” is his 7th book, and includes a compilation of columns that were snippets of stories published in the Staunton News ...

Sixty years ago, South Bend, Indiana, offered America a preview of what was to come in the industrial heartland. The Christmas 1963 shuttering of the Studebaker automobile plant foreshadowed the ...

Steve Sorensen wrote for the Reader from 1976 off and on through 1997; he was the Reader's most adventurous writer. He walked and hiked the mountains and desert he wrote about. He covered the surfing ...

Smiley Anders, whose column appeared in this newspaper for many years, will be remembered as an artful scribe, leaving behind thousands of columns and several published collections of his work when he ...