From 1968-1973, the three teenage Wiggin sisters, guided by a domineering father, played their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms and recorded a single album. The Philosophy of the World LP goes for over $500 today, but the intervening decades have not been kind to the Wiggins.
On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.
A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.
On spending your life among large felines.
Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.
“If I were a bitch, I’d be in love with Biff Truesdale. Biff is perfect. He’s friendly, good-looking, rich, famous, and in excellent physical condition. He almost never drools.”
The story of John Laroche, which led to Orleans’ The Orchid Thief, and tangentially, the film Adaptation.
A profile of Colin Duffy: fifth-grader, suburban New Jersey resident, ruler of the backyard, player of video games, boy.
On the empire built by “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade.
On Bangkok’s Khao San Road.
On designer Jean Paul Gaultier and his inspirations.
A profile of Felipe Lopez, high school phenom.
War stories from the world of Manhattan real estate, written during an era when everybody knew the Internet would completely change the business and nobody quite knew how.
What does it take to win the World Taxidermy Championships?
An artist takes on “the umbrella problem,” which runs so deep the U.S. Patent Office has four full-time examiners dedicated solely to assessing ideas for umbrella improvement.
