Adams Fall
A bridge, a preventable leap, and the politics of barriers for “suicide hotspots.”
A bridge, a preventable leap, and the politics of barriers for “suicide hotspots.”
Matthieu Aikins The Coast Jan 2008 25min Permalink
A profile of Felipe Lopez, high school phenom.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Mar 1993 40min Permalink
An annotated transcript:
MR. SEALE: [The marshals are carrying him through the door to the lockup.] I still want an immediate trial. You can’t call it a mistrial. I’m put in jail for four years for nothing? I want my coat.
Jason Epstein New York Review of Books Dec 1969 1h5min Permalink
The rise and fall of “Rock Around the Clock” singer Bill Haley.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Jun 2011 30min Permalink
A field trip to the video gamey world of the modern trader.
James Somers The Atlantic May 2011 10min Permalink
A letter to his unborn son about the wonders of being an only child.
John Hodgman Psychology Today Jan 2007 10min Permalink
Joyce Hatto, unknown to even the most ardent classical music collectors until late in her life, released a string of incredible performances of great works, distributed by her husband’s mail-order CD business. But how was it possible for her to record difficult works at such a dizzying rate? And if wasn’t her playing, who was it?
Mark Singer New Yorker Sep 2007 45min Permalink
Kevin is the only surviving Von Erich brother, born into a wrestling family that lived and died by the code of the ring.
John Spong Texas Monthly Oct 2005 30min Permalink
Inside Florence, Colorado’s ADX prison, possibly one of the most isolated places on Earth, where Tommy Silverstein has spent the last 27 years without human contact.
James Ridgeway, Jean Casella Solitary Watch Feb 2011 30min Permalink
On the “booming market” for human breast milk.
Judy Dutton Wired Jun 2011 15min Permalink
On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.
On why we need to stop questioning Wikipedia and start thinking about what comes next.
Maria Bustillos The Awl May 2011 20min Permalink
Today, in the electronic age of instantaneous communication, I believe that our survival, and at the very least our comfort and happiness, is predicated on understanding the nature of our new environment, because unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitute a total and near-instantaneous transformation of culture, values and attitudes.
Marshall McLuhan Playboy Mar 1969 1h10min Permalink
The story of a college town and the most devastating tornado in Alabama history.
Lars Anderson Sports Illustrated May 2011 Permalink
On the ground in Nigeria with the nation’s notorious scam artists, who share a remarkable number of qualities with America’s top entrepreneurs.
Sarah Lacy TechCrunch May 2011 10min Permalink
“Winning” in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.
Roseanne Barr New York May 2011 15min Permalink
A profile Mark Pincus, the founder and C.E.O. of Zynga—the company that created FarmVille, CityVille, and Zynga Poker, the most popular online poker game in the world.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Jun 2011 15min Permalink
A young mother transplants her family to Bahia.
Eleanor Stanford Guernica May 2011 20min Permalink
How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.
Jane Mayer New Yorker May 2011 35min Permalink
Louis C.K. has a deal unlike anyone else’s on TV: his network, FX, has no approval rights and offers no notes. He is also the show’s lone writer, editor, director, and star. A profile.
Emily Nussbaum New York May 2011 15min Permalink
Ah yes, you should also know that most of your colleagues are some of the biggest neurotics in the country, so you might as well get used right now to the way they're gonna be writing you five and ten page single spaced inflammatory letters reviling you for knocking some group that they have proved is the next Stones.
Lester Bangs Shakin' Street Gazette Oct 1974 20min Permalink
Since being revealed as a CIA operative and selling Blackwater, Erik Prince has set to work building U.A.E. a mercenary army, made up heavily of Colombian and South African troops, to be used “if the Emirates faced unrest or were challenged by pro-democracy demonstrations in its crowded labor camps or democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year.”
Emily B. Hager, Mark Mazzetti New York Times May 2011 Permalink
There’s a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don’t want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: “You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.”
Bruce LaBruce, Karl Lagerfeld Vice May 2011 25min Permalink
Inside Gibsonton, Florida, the carny capital of the nation.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Sep 2003 Permalink
In his first Major League at bat, Adam Greenberg was hit in the head with a fastball. He never made it back.
Barry Bearak New York Times Magazine Mar 2007 20min Permalink