Off Ramp

"Hank Stuever's reports take us to everyday places where the increasingly unusual realities of today's world run rampant. Stuever calls this terrain the American Elsewhere. He finds it by bypassing Big News and taking off ramps to places where seemingly ordinary people lead lives just slightly off-kilter. Stuever's Elsewhere extends through trailer parks, roller rinks, malls no longer sparkling, and suburbs where robot dogs growl and bored children jump off rooftops using Hefty-bag parachutes." "From Star Wars conventions to credit disasters, from snipers to missing persons, there is always…