Last winter, the Washington Post decided to try something unusual. A reporter wanted to see what would happen if they hired a world famous violinist to play during rush hour on a Washington subway platform. Would anybody notice? Would anybody stop and listen? Would they toss any money into his violin case? To take part…

And now for something completely different — and utterly surprising: the story of a Georgia couple who reversed a sterilization procedure, and welcomed a bouncing baby boy: Etched into David Hanson’s memory is the image of his wife, Catherine, having just delivered their sixth child by emergency C-section, being wheeled on a gurney away from…

A Wisconsin paper has the story of a deacon — soon to be a priest — who has followed an unusual career path: After working as an insurance agent and a waiter at Tippin’s, Mike McLain is now adding deacon to his resume. McLain, 57, is the new transitional deacon at five area parishes, including…

With the Super Bowl soon upon us, we’ll be inundated with expensive and over-produced commercials. Again. But the classics never go out of style. Twenty years after it first aired, this still makes me laugh.

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