comfort food Funeral potatoes are not as grim as they sound Rusty Blazenhoff

Lemonade from lemons 7-year-old starts a lemonade stand to bury her mother Thom Dunn

Peter Bebergal "Son of Frankenstein:" Peter Bebergal takes childhood refuge in his favorite monsters Gareth Branwyn

death Proud trailer park lot owner and "gluttonous eater of fried foods and snack cakes" memorialized with wonderful obituary David Pescovitz

tabloids Secrets the Queen took to her grave, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

animals Watch: Australian shepherd guides herd into a giant heart shape in stunning tribute to late relative David Pescovitz

twitter A staff writer at The Atlantic was addicted to Twitter. Here's why she quit Mark Frauenfelder

Joe Biden's "smoking gun" and Elvis Presley's "odd sex life" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids World War 3 and Royals at War in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids His Royal High-ness Prince Harry's Pot Farm, and stars with only months to live, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow

court Over Charles Manson's dead body: grandson to cremate cult leader's remains Séamus Bellamy

books All about the Black Death flea that killed 100 million people Amy Stewart

smurfs Review / Smurfs: The Lost Village Rob Beschizza

mistakes Turkey cat funeral explained Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Parasitic Souls: what if there was a tech bubble, but for magic? Kater Cheek

media Deep-fried Oreos, beer ravioli, chocolate-covered bacon are tabloid favorites Peter Sheridan

politics Watch Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, Mike Bloomberg speeches at 2016 DNC (Video) Xeni Jardin

Food Warning: At least two eels were definitely harmed during the reporting of this story Linda Rodriguez

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow