Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

Hey, did you read:

• This report in the Observer on how Miami is drowning? —Ben Sachs

• That corruption raises the cost of running Illinois by 5 percent? —Mick Dumke

• Britt Julious on black subcultures in 21st-century America? —Tal Rosenberg

• About Wicker Park's dwindling gutter-punk population? —Leor Galil

• Eula Biss on pioneers, both urban and otherwise? (From 2008, but still great.) —Aimee Levitt

• That Nathan Rabin, the former AV Club writer who coined the term "manic pixie dream girl," has recanted? —Aimee Levitt