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 ...

With August in full swing, the frenzy of summer activities starts to relax. The summer checklist is beginning to fill up ... vacation — check; summer camp — check; pool parties, sleepovers and ...

A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, they enticed us ...

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 ...

It occurred to me one Sunday as I was carefully cutting coupons from the Sunday paper that I missed paper dolls. Cutting out coupons takes on many forms. Some people randomly tear them out, some use ...

Zelda Fitzgerald once gauged a publisher's interest in creating a collection filled with the striking paper dolls she made for her daughter, but the book she imagined never materialized. More than 70 ...

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 ...

Captivating and heartbreaking, Katy Warner's new short play PAPER DOLL challenges the audience to consider how and if would forgive when faced with betrayal of trust. As the latest in Red Line ...