“Today it’s a mosquito. Tomorrow God only knows what is going to happen.”

A long stroll through a Staten Island cemetery leads to the story of the 19th-century free-black oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.

Five cars (all bought with $3,000 or less) containing 13 men (some in costume) race from New York City to California.

He stole over $1 million in chips – then checked himself into casino’s hotel to live like a king.

How a Madrid workshop is perfecting the art of copying imperiled art, from Egyptian tombs to Renaissance paintings.

“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”

“I mean, writers are horribly envious and so nobody likes stars, we always feel like it’s a zero-sum game and whatever stardom somebody else has is being taken directly from us, so we hate the stars. But we also need them. Because the possibility of some level of stardom is what will continue to attract new writers to the game. If you’re a linguistically talented 22-year-old, there’s a list of things you can be: you can work in Hollywood, you can be a blogger, etc. And if being a novelist equates to some quaint thing like being a Morris dancer, who’s going to choose this?”

An unlikely bipartisan alliance attempts to get Yes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

After eight women are murdered in Louisiana, what was initially thought to be the work of a serial killer becomes something much more troubling.

In the Winter of 1964, the Fab Four rocket to superstardom in just six weeks.

How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them.

On internships at Disney World, where “labor is meant to have an almost invisible quality.”

A profile of Justin Timberlake:

This need to succeed, to become his generation’s multi-talented Sammy Davis Jr., is part of what makes him appealing to filmmakers. “I needed someone who could be a Frank Sinatra figure, someone who could walk into the room and command all the attention,” says David Fincher, of casting Timberlake as Sean Parker, the Facebook investor and rogue, in The Social Network. “I didn’t want someone who would just say, ‘I know how to play groovy.’ You can’t fake that stuff. That’s the problem with making movies about a rock star—actors have spent their lives auditioning and getting rejected, and rock stars haven’t.”

A first-person account of Louisiana’s prison rodeo in which:

...thousands of visitors drive down this road toward an inmate-constructed, 10,000-seat arena to watch Louisiana’s most feared criminals compete in harrowing events like “convict poker” (four prisoners sit around a card table and are ambushed by a bull; last one seated wins); “guts and glory” (a poker chip is tied to the forehead of a bull and inmates try to grab it off); and the perennial crowd pleaser, “bull riding.” Prisoners can win prize money, but have no chance to practice before entering the ring.

In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year.

On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.

How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.

Kevin Wheatcroft owns the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia. And he’s suddenly eager to show it off.

The author was living in a friend’s basement after a bad breakup, unable to eat. Then he had lunch with Jacques Pépin.

What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.