The Ballad of the Piggyback Bandit
How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled road trip.
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How Sherwin Shayegan pulled off a 3,000-mile, piggyback ride-fueled road trip.
Bryan Curtis Grantland Jul 2012 20min Permalink
On rongorongo, which no one can decipher.
Jacob Mikanowski Cabinet Magazine Jul 2018 25min Permalink
The paper spiked a #MeToo story. Why?
Irin Carmon New York Apr 2019 25min Permalink
The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”
William McGowan Slate Jul 2012 30min Permalink
“They have effectively claimed the progressive causes of the left – from gay rights to women’s equality and protecting Jews from antisemitism – as their own, by depicting Muslim immigrants as the primary threat to all three groups. As fear of Islam has spread, with their encouragement, they have presented themselves as the only true defenders of western identity and western liberties – the last bulwark protecting a besieged Judeo-Christian civilisation from the barbarians at the gates.”
Sasha Polakow-Suransky The Guardian Nov 2016 30min Permalink
“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”
Supriya Nair Roads & Kingdoms May 2014 Permalink
Catching up with the controversial radio host, who recently returned to the air after years away.
Michael Kruse Grantland Sep 2012 15min Permalink
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.
Bill Jensen Washingtonian Apr 2015 15min Permalink
A group of scientists started tracking thousands of British children born during one cold March week in 1946. Those children are now 65 and the data generated through careful tracking of their life history has become extremely valuable.
Helen Pearson Nature Mar 2011 15min Permalink
Google and Tesla are spending billions to develop driverless technology. George Hotz used an Acura.
Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink
Justin Vivian Bond found downtown fame as Kiki DuRane, decrepit drag chanteuse and comedic prophet of gay rage born out of the AIDS era. Then he killed Kiki to try to become the woman (and man) he always wanted to be.
Carl Swanson New York May 2011 20min Permalink
The British artist, a contemporary of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, has been called “the most unabashedly all-balls-out, rock ‘n’ roll” of her generation.
Olivia Laing T Magazine Mar 2015 10min Permalink
The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.
Ernest B. Ferguson The American Scholar Apr 2009 15min Permalink
Catch shares are touted by the government and environmental groups as the solution to overfishing. But for a new generation under the system, the economics consist mainly of “absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, [and] fish quota that costs more than your house.”
Lee van der Voo Seattle Weekly Jan 2013 Permalink
HEMINGWAY: You go to the races? PLIMPTON: Yes, occasionally. HEMINGWAY: Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction.
Ernest Hemingway, George Plimpton The Paris Review Apr 1958 35min Permalink
A species of jellyfish that can transform itself back to a polyp at any time appears to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world — you are born, and then you die.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Nov 2012 25min Permalink
A profile of the Los Angeles Clippers owner, an oft-sued real estate baron with a documented racist streak and a penchant for heckling his own players, on the occasion of him winning an NAACP lifetime achievement award.
Peter Keating ESPN Jun 2009 20min Permalink
As medical researchers scramble to find the source of a fatal lung disease and officials seek to ban the sale of vape pens, our correspondent set out to separate reality from hysteria.
Amanda Chicago Lewis California Sunday Jan 2020 40min Permalink
Authorities say Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, perfected a simple internet scam and laundered millions of dollars. His past says a lot about digital swagger, and the kinds of stories that get told online.
Evan Ratliff Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 Permalink
Promise kept.
But his greatest presidential stumbling block may be right under his nose. At home, Newt's second wife, Marianne Ginther Gingrich, tells me she doesn't see herself in the First Lady's job. "Watching Hillary has just been a horrible experience," commiserates Marianne. "Hillary sticking her neck out is not working." What happens if Newt runs?, I ask. "He can't do it without me," she replies. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy" --she giggles at her naughtiness. "I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything..."
Gail Sheehy Vanity Fair Sep 1995 Permalink
The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink
The Bachelor’s host, Chris Harrison, is now a divorced bachelor himself. It turns out coaching single men is a lot easier than being one.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink
The Giant Pacific Octopus is, in the words of a Seattle conservationist, a “glamour animal.” It is also tasty. Therein lies the conflict.
Marnie Hanel New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 10min Permalink
“The entire system set up to monitor and regulate Wall Street is fucked up. Just ask the people who tried to do the right thing.”
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Mar 2010 30min Permalink
The 66-year-old became lost while hiking the Appalachian Trail. She survived for at least 16 days before crawling into her sleeping bag one last time, her journal sealed in a waterproof bag.
Kathryn Miles Boston Globe Aug 2016 15min Permalink