Could California's Salmon Make a Comeback?
A fishery, an economy, and a way of life hang in the balance.
A fishery, an economy, and a way of life hang in the balance.
Barry Yeoman OnEarth May 2013 20min Permalink
An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.
Scott Johnson Buzzfeed May 2013 35min Permalink
“The supernatural stuff doesn’t get to me anymore. But here’s the movie that scared me the most in the last 12 or 13 years: The movie opens with a woman in late middle-age, sitting at a table and writing a story. And the story goes something like, then the branches creaked in the - and she stops, and she says to her husband: What are those things? I can’t think of them. They’re in the backyard, and they’re very tall, and birds land on the branches. And he says, why, Iris, those are trees. And she says, yes, how silly of me. And she writes the word, and the movie starts. That’s Iris Murdoch, and she’s suffering the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Terry Gross NPR May 2013 30min Permalink
A week in the life of Naomi and Spencer Haskell.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post May 2013 15min Permalink
Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.
Jeff Stein Salon Aug 2001 20min Permalink
A profile of Dennis Rodman today.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach May 2013 20min Permalink
How Jeffrey Katzenberg became the Democrats’ kingmaker.
Andy Kroll Mother Jones May 2013 Permalink
Margalit Fox is a senior obituary writer for The New York Times.
"You do get emotionally involved with people, even though as a journalist you're not supposed to. But as a human being, how can you not? Particularly people who had difficult, tragic, poignant lives. But there are also people that you just wish you had known. And, of course, the painful irony is that you're only getting to know them by virtue of the fact that it's too late."
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The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.
Patricia O'Connor Vela May 2013 25min Permalink
How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.
Ben Austen New York Times Magazine May 2013 Permalink
A college football coach is falsely accused of producing and possessing child pornography.
Eli Saslow ESPN May 2013 15min Permalink
A profile of the greatest checkers player of all time.
Adam Langer Chicago Reader Feb 1993 20min Permalink
Argo, The Insider, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dog Day Afternoon—a collection of great articles that became (mostly) great movies.</p>
The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.
Jon Henley The Guardian May 2013 Permalink
“Southwark’s petty thugs must have thought all their birthdays had come at once: a well-dressed toff stumbling round their borough in no state to defend himself, and with an alcoholic street whore as his only companion.”
Reconstructing a mysterious 1892 London murder.
Paul Slade PlanetSlade Feb 2013 50min Permalink
“Jeannie Peeper’s diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton. Within a few years, she would begin to grow new bones that would stretch across her body, some fusing to her original skeleton. Bone by bone, the disease would lock her into stillness. The Mayo doctors didn’t tell Peeper’s parents that. All they did say was that Peeper would not live long.”
Carl Zimmer The Atlantic May 2013 25min Permalink
In the ring, Hector “Macho” Camacho was a champ. Out of it, he was a coke-fueled, womanizing wild man, until the appetites that consumed him cost him his life.
Paul Solotaroff Men's Journal Apr 2013 20min Permalink
On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker May 2013 50min Permalink
An oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, as poker went mainstream in America and online players invaded the competition.
Eric Raskin Grantland May 2013 1h Permalink
The story of Héctor Espino, the greatest hitter never to play in the majors.
Eric Nusbaum SB Nation May 2013 25min Permalink
“I haven’t put out an album in 20 years. Let’s face it. I am an oldies act. I just don’t want it to be like when you watch Channel 13 and there’s the Delltones or some English band from the ’60s, and they’re real crotchety and they look terrible, and I go, ‘Oh, God, I don’t want to be on that show.’”
Andrew Goldman, Billy Joel New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
The story of a tobacco industry whistleblower.
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair May 1996 1h15min Permalink
Inside Brigham Young University’s successful animation program.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
A beloved girls’ basketball coach is accused of sexually molesting several of his players.
Eric Adelson ESPN Jan 2005 20min Permalink
Patsy Cline’s hometown and the debate over her legacy.
John Lingan The Morning News May 2013 30min Permalink