Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.


                                              Hey, did you read:
  • This chilling account of the cross-examination of the accuser in the St. Paul’s rape case? —Aimee Levitt
  • Greg Howard on the fight for leadership in the Black Lives Matter movement? —Tal Rosenberg
  • The story of David Denson, the Brewers minor-leaguer who recently came out as gay, the first player in an MLB organization to do so? (Get with the times, dudes.) —Kate Schmidt
  • This Glenn Greenwald column on what the Ashley Madison hack and the puritanical glee that comes with it says about us? —Ryan Smith
  • That longtime Chicago weatherman Harry Volkman has died? —Tony Adler
  • About the discovery of $1 million worth of baseball cards in an abandoned building in Detroit? —Mick Dumke
  • About the kids who attend the Gathering of the Juggalos? —Brianna Wellen
  • About the fear and loathing of walking in America? —Aimee Levitt
  • About the uproar over the Manhattan Theatre Club’s all-white-male-playwright season? —Tony Adler
  • About Banksy’s pop-up art exhibition in a dystopian theme park? —Andrea Bauer
  • About the history of True Detective magazine? —Tal Rosenberg