Wenner's World
How a hanger-on at the fringe of San Francisco’s rock scene built the Rolling Stone empire.
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How a hanger-on at the fringe of San Francisco’s rock scene built the Rolling Stone empire.
David Weir Salon Apr 1999 15min Permalink
Contemplating plastic surgery.
David Rakoff Salon Nov 2005 15min Permalink
On the militarization of America’s police forces.
Radley Balko Salon Jul 2013 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
The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.
Andrew Leonard Salon May 2013 20min Permalink
The story of a suicide.
Alex Halperin Salon Mar 2013 20min Permalink
In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”
Mark Ames, Alexander Zaitchik Salon Dec 2012 25min Permalink
His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.
Patrick Somerville Salon Jul 2012 10min Permalink
Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Joel Whitney Salon May 2012 25min Permalink
On the family origins of an eating disorder.
Jennifer Egan Salon Jul 1997 10min Permalink
A profile of Maggie Gallagher, founder of National Organization for Marriage.
Mark Oppenheimer Salon Feb 2012 35min Permalink
A group of misfit boys from the fringes of Las Vegas form a clique. Then, with murky motives, they decide to murder one of their own and bury him in a desert pit.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Salon Mar 2007 25min Permalink
The state of the American cockfight.
Deborah Kennedy Salon Jan 2012 15min Permalink
Enlightened is probably the sharpest satire of modern white-collar work since the original British version of The Office, and its skewering of this world intertwines with its portrait of individual personalities so deftly that you can’t separate them. Creator Mike White captures the unsettling blandness of office protocol, politics and jargon, from the chill that workers feel when Human Resources calls them out of the blue to the impressive-sounding word salad labels that the company gives to its departments and projects. (The experimental department to which the newly demoted Amy is assigned is called “Cogentiva.”)
Matt Zoller Seitz Salon Nov 2011 Permalink
I’ve read stories from people who say they always knew they were attracted to the same sex, or that they figured it out at a young age. I’m not one of them.
Steve Kornacki Salon Nov 2011 10min Permalink
Rogue cops in the LAPD Rampart division’s anti-gang CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) were involved in everything from drug smuggling and bank robberies to, allegedly, the murder of Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace.
How a herbalist who used to swim naked with Allen Ginsberg became one of conservative talk radio’s most vicious—and listened to—hosts.
David Gilson Salon Mar 2003 20min Permalink
A lifetime worth of little scams adds up.
Jason Jellick Salon Nov 2010 Permalink
The cozy relationship between “the internet newspaper” and bogus medicine.
Rahul K. Parikh Salon Jul 2009 15min Permalink
The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.
Marc Weingarten Salon Jun 2009 15min Permalink
Profile of the flip-flop wearing 61-year-old ‘dude’ who turned around a dying company by selling all-American sex to teens – and isn’t apologizing.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis Salon Jan 2006 Permalink