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A veteran black Metro columnist, adrift in a rapidly shifting D.C., rankles an incoming generation of gentrificationists.
A veteran black Metro columnist, adrift in a rapidly shifting D.C., rankles an incoming generation of gentrificationists.
Rend Smith Washington City Paper Nov 2010 35min Permalink
Brian Windhorst was one of the first reporters to cover LeBron James. He was there in high school. There at the draft. There in Cleveland. And now he’s there in Miami, though the relationship is far from what it used to be.
Published on the eve of Iran’s 2009 presidential election and subsequent protests, a look at the booze-fueled, hijab-less underground party scene in the capital.
A stylized account of the fall of ant colony.
E.O. Wilson New Yorker Jan 2010 25min Permalink
Nobody knows the full story of why legendary surfer Andy Irons died in a Dallas hotel room earlier this month. But some who knew him have come forward to discuss the demons he’d battled for years.
Brad Melekian Outside Nov 2010 15min Permalink
How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.
Michael Kaplan Wired Nov 2010 25min Permalink
The story of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, written and published the following week.
Jay-Z on his new book Decoded, his parents’ record collection, and the real reason rappers have a tendency to grab their junk on stage.
Jay-Z, Terry Gross NPR Nov 2010 35min Permalink
“From the start, it was a bad case.
A battered 21-year-old woman with long blond curls was discovered facedown in the weeds, naked, at the western edge of Miami, where the neat grid of outer suburbia butts up against the high grass and black mud of the Everglades.”
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2010 30min Permalink
“For years, the most profitable industry in America has been one that doesn’t design, build, or sell a single tangible thing.” The case for why investment banking is socially useless.
John Cassidy New Yorker Nov 2010 30min Permalink
How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.
Brendan Kiley The Stranger Aug 2010 15min Permalink
How did a Kentucky entrepreneur, a Louisiana politician, and the vice president of Nigeria end up in one of the biggest scandals to hit America’s black elite in decades?
Andrew Rice Portfolio Oct 2007 20min Permalink
During WWII, a bomber crashes into the Pacific and the crewmen begin an epic battle against dehydration, exposure, and endless attacks by sharks. Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.
Laura Hillenbrand Vanity Fair Dec 2010 35min Permalink
Western execs on what it’s like to be taken over by a Chinese firm.
The Economist Nov 2010 10min Permalink
A first-person rumination on a lifetime spent behind bars.
An oral history of a family in Mexico City, in transition from poverty to the lower-middle class, as they scramble to organize the burial of a slum-dwelling aunt.
Oscar Lewis New York Review of Books Sep 1969 40min Permalink
On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Dec 2010 30min Permalink
A survey on where the industry is headed. Says one agency veteran: “Marketing in the future is like sex. Only the losers will have to pay for it.”
Danielle Sacks Fast Company Nov 2010 Permalink
On the workings of Sarah Palin’s inner circle.
An investigation into Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group behind the 2008 Mumbai massacre, and why Pakistani authorities has not arrested their leaders.
Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Nov 2010 15min Permalink
A history of entrepreneurship in New York City, starting with shipping magnate Jeremiah Thompson’s big gamble in the 1820s: scheduled departures.
Edward L. Glaeser City Journal Nov 2010 20min Permalink
On the BBC radio addresses of E.M. Forster: “For one thing, he won’t call what he is doing literary criticism, or even reviewing. His are ‘recommendations’ only. Each episode ends with Forster diligently reading out the titles of the books he has dealt with, along with their exact price in pounds and shillings.”
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Aug 2008 20min Permalink
On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.
Chris Jones Esquire Jul 2009 Permalink
Scenes from the new Tijuana: two teenage brothers from the country club set descend into the cartel underworld, bored federales guard the acid pit where hundreds of bodies were erased, families picnic through a chain-link border fence.
Ed Vulliamy Guernica Nov 2010 30min Permalink
A profile of April Bloomfield, chef at The Spotted Pig.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Nov 2010 35min Permalink