A Cocktail Party In The Street
An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.
Great articles, every Saturday.
An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.
Krista Ninivaggi, Nicola Twilley Edible Geography Nov 2010 15min Permalink
The immersive mise en scène of a 2010 Hollister flagship store, redolent of California beach towns that don’t exist, “lazy, hygienic sexuality,” and weed.
Molly Young The Believer Sep 2010 10min Permalink
A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.
Adam Ciralsky Vanity Fair Jan 2010 25min Permalink
How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Nov 2019 15min Permalink
A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.
A. A. Gill Vanity Fair Oct 2006 10min Permalink
Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.
Claire Hoffman Portfolio May 2008 25min Permalink
Is all water created equal? It depends on who you believe.
Katy Kelleher Topic Apr 2019 25min Permalink
How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.
Gary Rivlin Mother Jones Mar 2011 15min Permalink
Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Feb 2001 35min Permalink
The rise of an amazing optical corporation and the future of our eyes.
Sam Knight The Guardian May 2018 35min Permalink
A 42,000-word, 3-continent spanning “hacker tourist” account of the laying of the (then) longest wire on earth.
Neal Stephenson Wired Dec 1996 2h45min Permalink
Best Article Arts Business Media
A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Feb 2004 25min Permalink
Five years after they leave the league, 60 percent of NBA players have nothing left. In the NFL, it’s closer to 80 percent after just two years. On the economics of professional sports.
Pablo S. Torre Sports Illustrated Mar 2009 25min Permalink
A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.
Hamilton Nolan Deadspin Jun 2017 30min Permalink
Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.
Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2017 10min Permalink
Built on a foundation of debt and trickery, where economic principles were sacrificed to romantic political visions, the Euro has become the world’s most dangerous currency. How the utopian dream of a common currency turned tragic.
Der Spiegel Oct 2011 1h Permalink
Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the bubble in the subprime-mortgage market before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him. The article that became The Big Short.
Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Apr 2010 45min Permalink
An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.
Chandler Phillips Edmunds Jan 2001 1h45min Permalink
A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.
Lisa Miller New York Sep 2014 25min Permalink
In July 2008, the director of a Denver non-profit received a package containing house keys, a will, a $100,000 check and what appeared to be a suicide note. She didn’t go to the bank–or to the cops.
Alan Prendergast Westword May 2009 25min Permalink
The story of a lead squandered.
Kurt Eichenwald Vanity Fair Aug 2012 30min Permalink
The human lives lost in exchange for cheaper goods.
Jim Yardley New York Times Dec 2012 Permalink
How an obscure Australian judge and a hard-charging lawyer put the S&P on trial for the global financial collapse.
Bernard Lagan The Global Mail Dec 2012 20min Permalink
How business incentives impact local economies.
Louise Story New York Times Dec 2012 50min Permalink
The future of beer behemoth AB InBev.
Devin Leonard Businessweek Oct 2012 15min Permalink