Did you read about Frankie Knuckles, the benefits of spite, and gun owners?

• Ernest Collins
• Frankie Knuckles

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

Hey, did you read:

• About the Las Vegas masseuse who found a secret pocket in which to hide valuables? —Tony Adler

• That Frankie Knuckles died? (Here’s Reader contributor Michaelangelo Matos’s obituary for Rolling Stone.) —Tal Rosenberg

• An argument that a materialist worldview can only be half-right and that we should put “currently rejected forms of knowledge on our academic table” as a way to better understand the nature of consciousness? —John Dunlevy

• About how the popular TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother wasn’t about the mother at all? (Here’s an interesting review of last night’s finale. Note: SPOILERS) —Keshia Bardney

• About high-tech developments in the maple syrup industry? —Ben Sachs

• About how spite can be a good thing? —Aimee Levitt

• About the low pay rates for minor league baseball players? —Mick Dumke

• Rookie‘s deep sartorial analysis of cereal box mascots? —Aimee Levitt

• About the many faces of gun ownership? —Mara Shalhoup