Merry Christmas and a happy new fear
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Beloved Christmas traditions like giving gifts, baking cookies and caroling make the modern celebration the most saccharine holiday of the year — at least in …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Beloved Christmas traditions like giving gifts, baking cookies and caroling make the modern celebration the most saccharine holiday of the year — at least in …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
I confess, I’m a sucker for war films. Iconic entries in the genre like Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk…
By Barbara Russell
Reader Contributor
Human Rights Day is celebrated worldwide annually on Dec. 10 to commemorate the day the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
A lot can happen in a billion years. The continents, as we know them, have not always been laid out in the way they appear …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s tempting to say that the new film Napoleon, from director Ridley Scott, which premiered in theaters just before Thanksgiving, comes at an apt …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
There are few better ways to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the repeal of the Prohibition than hanging out at one of the oldest bars …
By Brendon Bobby
Reader Columnist
Book binding is an art that goes back to at least the fifth century B.C.E. This process could be even older but we don’t have …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Most people probably already know that the turkey is a uniquely North American bird — a fact primarily responsible for its central role in the …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
Archaeologists keep finding cool things out about us… our early history as a species… Homo Sapiens, baby… that’s who we are.
Evidently an early prototype …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
It has always interested me that the term “vanilla” refers to something as being plain, common or boring. Indeed, vanilla-flavored food is often considered a …
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