Lost at Sea
Their boat gone, they spent five days in the Atlantic Ocean without food or water, surrounded by sharks.
Their boat gone, they spent five days in the Atlantic Ocean without food or water, surrounded by sharks.
Kevin Koczwara Boston Magazine Aug 2021 20min Permalink
Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.
Chris Sweeney Boston Magazine May 2021 15min Permalink
The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.
John H. Tucker Boston Magazine Oct 2019 25min Permalink
Last summer, Arthur Medici went surfing off the coast of Cape Cod. He never made it back.
Casey Sherman Boston Magazine May 2019 15min Permalink
When loved ones die, what do we do with the digital reminders they’ve left behind?
Luke O'Neil Boston Magazine Jun 2018 10min Permalink
All aboard the maiden voyage Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Boston Magazine May 2016 15min Permalink
Twenty years ago, Brian Peixoto was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son. But is he innocent?
Gus Garcia-Roberts Boston Magazine Feb 2016 35min Permalink
The rise of the king of American swingers.
Michael Damiano Boston Magazine Jan 2016 20min Permalink
A treasure hunter found the world’s richest shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. Or at least that’s what he told his investors.
Erick Trickey Boston Magazine Sep 2015 25min Permalink
Inside the cutthroat world of competitive bagpiping.
Chris Sweeney Boston Magazine Aug 2015 20min Permalink
A man felt wronged by his ex-girlfriend, a video game designer. So he published a 9,425-word online screed with “each component designed to be as damaging to [her] as possible.” It sparked the online fire known as “Gamergate.”
Zachary Jason Boston Magazine May 2015 20min Permalink
Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.
Michele McPhee Boston Magazine Apr 2015 25min Permalink
Buddy Cianci, former Providence mayor and convicted felon, is running for the city’s top office. Again.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Boston Magazine Oct 2014 15min Permalink
A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.
Susan Zalkind Boston Magazine Feb 2014 30min Permalink
In 1913, Joe Knowles became a media sensation after fleeing into the Maine woods wearing nothing but a jockstrap. Two months and one bear-clubbing incident later, the “Nature Man” returned to civilization as a hero. But was it all hoax?
Bill Donahue Boston Magazine Apr 2013 20min Permalink
A coffee maven—and Frappuccino inventor—attempts a comeback in the cafe business.
Janelle Nanos Boston Magazine Dec 2012 20min Permalink
On drinking alcohol while pregnant.
Alyssa Giacobbe Boston Magazine Dec 2012 15min Permalink
Becoming a priest in Boston amidst a sex abuse scandal and church closings.
Patrick Doyle Boston Magazine Oct 2012 20min Permalink
The story of a device that delivers electric shocks to students at a school for special needs.
Paul Kix Boston Magazine Jul 2008 Permalink
In the late 90s, an American man adopted a 5-year-old from the Ukraine. A decade later, one of the two would be accused of molesting young boys. The other would be charged with murder.
Chris Vogel Boston Magazine Aug 2012 Permalink
How Curt Schilling’s video-game company went bust.
Jason Schwartz Boston Magazine Aug 2012 Permalink
On trying out for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Jennie Dorris Boston Magazine Jul 2012 15min Permalink
John MacNeil was convicted by the state of Massachusetts of second-degree murder. He was given a life sentence. He escaped. He was caught. Through an incredible feat of jailhouse lawyering, he somehow got himself paroled and exiled to Canada. Then he came home.
David L. Yas Boston Magazine Nov 2001 15min Permalink
Shiva Ayyadurai told the world he invented email. Not everyone agreed.
Janelle Nanos Boston Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The rise and fall of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association), from its 1970s founding as a splinter group within the gay rights movement to its current incarnation as the most reviled organization in America.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis Boston Magazine May 2006 25min Permalink