Zach Galifianakis Can't Help It
A profile of the up-and-coming comedian just after the cancellation of his VH1 talk show, Late World with Zach. His sentiment at the time: “Hollywood is just such a fucking idiot machine.”
A profile of the up-and-coming comedian just after the cancellation of his VH1 talk show, Late World with Zach. His sentiment at the time: “Hollywood is just such a fucking idiot machine.”
Jason Gay The New York Observer Jul 2002 10min Permalink
A profile of the up-and-coming New York politician, who at the time was toying with a run for mayor.
Doree Shafrir The New York Observer Dec 2007 10min Permalink
A profile of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar during the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival.
Bob Rodriguez, the oracular mutual fund manager with the best record over the last quarter century and two correctly-predicted crashes under his belt, says another spectacular crash is on its way within five years.
Mina Kimes Fortune Jun 2011 15min Permalink
"For example, I remember reading Hemingway and loving his work so much—but then at some point, realizing that my then-current life (or parts of it) would not be representable via his prose style. Living in Amarillo, Texas, working as a groundsman at an apartment complex, with strippers for pals around the complex, goofball drunks recently laid off from the nuclear plant accosting me at night when I played in our comical country band, a certain quality of West Texas lunatic-speak I was hearing, full of way off-base dreams and aspirations—I just couldn’t hear that American in Hem-speak. And that kind of moment is gold for a young writer: the door starts to open, just a crack."
George Saunders, Patrick Dacey BOMB Magazine Jun 2011 40min Permalink
On the complete corruption of Paul Bergin, a federal attorney turned high-priced defense lawyer now awaiting trial on a host of charges.
If Paul is guilty of half the things they say, he’d be the craziest, most evil lawyer in the history of the State of New Jersey. That is saying something.
Mark Jacobson New York Jun 2011 20min Permalink
In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.
Barry Bearak New York Times Magazine Jun 2011 30min Permalink
A dispatch from the early days of AIDS:
It is as relentless as leukemia, as contagious as hepatitis, and its cause has eluded researchers for more than two years.
Robin Marantz New York Times Magazine Feb 1983 25min Permalink
A brutal story from the Times’ cub Metro reporter:
''We're dying,'' he said. ''Why is this happening? Is it because we loved each other too much or not enough?"
Maureen Dowd New York Times Dec 1983 1h20min Permalink
It was the worst AIDS crisis in years—until it wasn’t.
David France New York May 2005 Permalink
Pathologists and epidemiologists take on “the confounding killer known as AIDS.”
Walter Isaacson Time Jul 1983 Permalink
On returning to Lagos after years abroad.
It is always understood when you leave Nigeria as a Nigerian that you will return at some point.
Saratu Abiola This Recording Jun 2011 10min Permalink
On Forever 21 and the rise of “fast fashion”:
They have changed fashion from a garment making to an information business, optimizing their supply chains to implement design tweaks on the fly.
Rob Horning n+1 Jun 2011 15min Permalink
“Is he Socrates or Mengele?” On the late Jack Kevorkian.
Ron Rosenbaum Vanity Fair May 1991 55min Permalink
On comics and journalism:
Now, when you draw, you can always capture that moment. You can always have that exact, precise moment when someone’s got the club raised, when someone’s going down. I realize now there’s a lot of power in that.
Hillary Chute, Joe Sacco The Believer Jun 2011 15min Permalink
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Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.
A ride-along with the guys tasked with demolishing the city’s 10,000 “abandoned, godforsaken homes.”
Howie Kahn GQ May 2011 20min Permalink
America's fascination with murder has not yet extended to its aftermath. As a result, the victims' survivors must seek comfort from one another.
Eric Schlosser The Atlantic Sep 1997 35min Permalink
On Kimora Lee Simmons, then the head of the Baby Phat clothing company and wife of Russell Simmons.
“Let me take off my glasses,” she says, removing her large frames. “I want you to see my eyes. I will beat a bitch’s ass!”
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Apr 2005 30min Permalink
An investigation into the death of Victoria Arellano at a Los Angeles County immigration detention facility.
Ben Ehrenreich Los Angeles Sep 2008 25min Permalink
A rare interview with Gene Hackman, who says Welcome to Mooseport was his last movie, unless he “could do it in my own house.”
Gene Hackman, Michael Hainey GQ Jun 2011 10min Permalink
On Lance Armstrong’s return to racing after cancer.
Michael Specter New Yorker Jul 2002 35min Permalink
Why your phone may (or may not) be killing you.
Nathaniel Rich Harper's May 2010 Permalink
What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.
Max Chafkin Inc. May 2011 20min Permalink