Writers sometimes gain inspiration from real life stories. But finding interesting real life stories to write about can sometimes be challenging. Two playwrights and actors from New York City decided to find inspiration for a play through lives revealed in the belongings tucked inside two local storage units. [More]

The rules regarding who can run in the election for mayor of a town are much the same in most of the world’s democracies. Elections laws customarily require that candidates live in the town, be of a certain age, be a citizen of the country in which the town is located, etc. The rules are not much different in St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada. But a man who lives in nearby Niagara Falls has found a way to bend them. He has rented a St. Catharine’s self storage unit and has listed it as his residence in St. Catharine’s, allowing him to enter the St. Catharine’s mayoral race. [More]