This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. It's the little ...

”Did you ever play with paper dolls?” Ask this question of any woman between the ages of 50 and 90 and you are apt to get an enthusiastic response. ”Of course! I entertained myself for hours cutting ...

A good friend told me that she and some family members went to the movies to see the new “Barbie.” She shared that the movie was packed, and this was not a surprise because she was aware that it had ...

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs. When a new Sears catalog arrived at our home, the old one was set aside, available for play. My sister and I would pour through it, looking for just ...

After what seems like the longest five months ever (riiiiiight?), we’ve finally reached the unofficial start of summer — the end of May in Los Angeles — and nothing speaks volumes in the City of ...

The control group of girls, ages 4 to 7, who played with a Mrs. Potato Head reported having more possible career choices, nearly as many as they reported for boys. Girls who play with Barbie dolls ...

Give Mark Hampton and Barbara J. Zitwer a point or two for sheer chutzpah. In their biographical wallowing in the life of Jacqueline Susann, they have dared to be as trashy as Susann was in her ...