Chinatown’s Ghost Scam
Following the fraudsters who use gods and myth to steal from the elderly.
Following the fraudsters who use gods and myth to steal from the elderly.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker May 2014 25min Permalink
A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.
Emily Urquhart The Walrus Apr 2013 25min Permalink
Another look at a popular myth.
For the longest time blues fans didn’t even know what their hero looked like—in 1971, a music magazine even hired a forensic artist to make a composite sketch based on various first-hand accounts—until two photos of Robert Johnson finally came to light. The dapper young man pictured in the most famous photo, dressed in a stylish suit and smiling affably at the camera, hardly looks like a man who has sold his soul to Lucifer.
Ted Gioia Alibi Magazine Aug 2011 Permalink