He Didn’t Stop Believin’
In need of a new lead singer, Journey settled on an unknown 40-year-old from the Philippines whose clips they found online. Arnel Pineda was perfect: just a small-town boy, living in a lonely world.
In need of a new lead singer, Journey settled on an unknown 40-year-old from the Philippines whose clips they found online. Arnel Pineda was perfect: just a small-town boy, living in a lonely world.
Alex Pappademas GQ Jun 2008 25min Permalink
In the chaotic days before the Berlin Wall fell, the East German secret police shredded 45 million pages. Fifteen years later, a team of computer scientists figured out how to put it all back together.
Andrew Curry Wired Jan 2008 15min Permalink
The author wanted to give up her day job but keep her lifestyle. So she turned to Seeking Arrangement, a site that pairs rich, older men interested in “companionship” with 20-somethings interested in “gifts.”
Melanie Berliet Vanity Fair May 2010 10min Permalink
A dispatch from the frozen, drunken wasteland of Eastern Siberia.
Jeffrey Tayler The Atlantic Apr 1997 20min Permalink
The justly paranoid man behind WikiLeaks.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Jun 2010 40min Permalink
A 1970 review of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider.
Ellen Willis New York Review of Books Jan 1970 10min Permalink
In 2003, Gary Coleman ran for governor of California. But what he really wanted was to have never come to Hollywood in the first place.
Hank Stuever Washington Post Aug 2003 15min Permalink
A mayday call in the critical moments after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.
Douglas A. Blackmon The Wall Street Journal May 2010 10min Permalink
What fragmented reading experiences do to neural circuitry. (It’s not good.)
Nicholas Carr Wired Jun 2010 10min Permalink
The rise and fall of The Exile, Russia’s angriest English-language newspaper.
James Verini Vanity Fair Feb 2010 30min Permalink
Lenny makes $5,000 a week selling coke. It was easy to get into the business after finishing prep school. Getting out and going legit after his final score is proving much more difficult.
David Amsden New York Apr 2006 25min Permalink
How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.
Alex Pappademas GQ May 2010 Permalink
The contradiction-rich world of Maya Arulpragasam.
Lance Stephenson, the latest in a long line of Coney Island basketball prodigies, carries a burden none of his predecessors did: restoring New York City’s reputation as the hoops capital of the world.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Apr 2009 25min Permalink
A teenage Florida hacker crew, millions of credit cards numbers stolen by driving by big box stores and entering their networks, $1.1 million in cash buried in a backyard, an FBI snitch, and how it all fell apart.
Tim Elfrink The Miami New Times May 2010 20min Permalink
How smallpox went from eradicated disease to the ideal weapon of bioterrorists.
Richard Preston New Yorker Jul 1999 50min Permalink
The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.
Scott Anderson Esquire May 2000 15min Permalink
After his untimely death at age 50, prior to the publication of any of his novels, Larsson is posthumously at the center of a publishing empire built on the international success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
What does it take to win the World Taxidermy Championships?
Susan Orlean New Yorker Jun 2003 15min Permalink
Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.
Johann Hari The Independent Apr 2009 35min Permalink
The nation watched live as Robert O’Donnell rescued Baby Jessica from that well in Texas in October, 1987. Then they stopped watching, and Robert O’Donnell was lost without the attention.
Lisa Belkin New York Times Magazine Jul 1995 30min Permalink
The not-so-underground culture of neuroenhancing drug use, and where it’s headed.
Margaret Talbot New Yorker Apr 2009 40min Permalink
How a celebrated American artist was forced to trade his multimillion-dollar collection for a job selling donuts.
Michael Paul Mason The Believer Nov 2009 15min Permalink
What’s really happening in Kyrgyzstan.
Philip Shishkin Foreign Policy May 2010 20min Permalink
A 1992 Q&A with Woody Allen, conducted in the midst of the media swarm around his newly public relationship with Soon-Yi.
Walter Isaacson, Woody Allen Time Aug 1992 Permalink