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An oral history of the Upright Citizens Brigade.
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An oral history of the Upright Citizens Brigade.
Brian Raftery New York Sep 2011 20min Permalink
Meeting Nick Drake, London, 1970.
Brian Cullman The Paris Review Jul 2012 Permalink
A sniper’s bullet and a long recovery.
Brian Mockenhaupt Esquire Apr 2006 35min Permalink
After centuries of persecution, brown bears are showing up in some unexpected places.
Brian Payton Hakai Magazine Jan 2021 15min Permalink
A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.
Brian Boucher New York Jan 2006 15min Permalink
On FIFA’s history of scandal.
Brian Phillips Grantland Aug 2011 15min Permalink
A profile of 6’8”, 430-pound Brian Shaw.
Burkhard Bilger New Yorker Jul 2012 40min Permalink
Why all soccer fans should root for Holland to lose to Spain.
Brian Phillips Slate Jul 2010 Permalink
A 29-year-old Jobs on the culture that gave birth to Apple.
David Sheff Playboy Feb 1985 1h5min
Having departed Apple, a slightly disillusioned Jobs describes his new project, NeXT, and his views on the future of technology.
Jobs, having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, addresses the graduating class of 2005.
Steve Jobs Jun 2005 10min
The legendary rivals meet, in conversation.
Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg All Things D Aug 2011 55min
A former Gizmodo editor at the center of the lost iPhone 4 scandal recalls his relationship with Jobs.
Brian Lam Wirecutter Oct 2011
Feb 1985 – Oct 2011 Permalink
An oral history of Cheers.
Brian Raftery GQ Sep 2012 45min Permalink
A clinical test is underway to evaluate MDMA—ecstasy—as a treatment for PTSD.
Brian Anderson Motherboard Aug 2011 15min Permalink
Bringing down a cocaine empire in 1980s rural Maine.
Brian Kevin Down East Jan 2015 25min Permalink
A writer who went astray takes a road trip through the ruins of the American West.
Brian Phillips MTV Jun 2016 10min Permalink
A physicist remembers working on the Manhattan Project.
Brian Merchant Motherboard Aug 2015 20min Permalink
A trip to the Iditarod.
Brian Phillips Grantland Apr 2013 20min Permalink
Excerpts from Live From New York, an oral history of SNL.
Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller Vanity Fair Sep 2002 45min
SNL in its grim 20th season through the lens of first-year (and only-year) cast member Janeane Garofalo.
Chris Smith New York Mar 1995 35min
A pre-30 Rock profile of Tina Fey.
Virginia Heffernan New Yorker Nov 2003 20min
Eight years removed from the show, Murray was at the peak of his box office power and living in a secluded farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley.
Timothy White New York Times Magazine Nov 1988
How one of the most maligned cast members in SNL history ended up a talking head on Fox News.
Gus Garcia-Roberts Miami New Times Jan 2012 20min
A sweeping, honest interview published just before Murphy announced he wouldn’t host the Oscars included his first public comments on SNL in years.
Brian Hiatt Rolling Stone Nov 2011 25min
Nov 1988 – Jan 2012 Permalink
A profile of Brian Eno as he transitioned into installation art.
Rick Poynor Designers' Journal Jan 1987 10min Permalink
How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.
Brian Feldman New York Jul 2018 20min Permalink
Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.
Brian Freskos The Trace 15min Permalink
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“The Playground” (Terrance McCoy • Amazon Kindle Singles)
Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s secret surveillance network.
Matthieu Aikins Wired May 2012 25min
Breakneck growth has made China an economic miracle. But will the destruction of families prove to be too high a cost?
Deborah Jian Lee, Sushma Subramanian Foreign Policy May 2012
How the museum-quality 55,000 film collection that an East Village video store gave away ended up in a small, possibly mob-run village in Sicily.
Karina Longworth Village Voice Sep 2012
The Kabul hospital that treats all sides.
Luke Mogelson New York Times Magazine May 2012 35min
Swift acceptance of gays by the Israeli military helped transform Israel into one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world.
Brian Schaefer Moment Magazine Sep 2012 15min
A profile of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Mar 2012 35min
Unexploded ammunition near U.S. firing range poses peril for Afghans.
Kevin Sieff The Washington Post May 2012
An investigation into slavery in Mauritania.
Edythe McNamee, John D. Sutter CNN Mar 2012 30min
Thailand is the United States’ second-largest supplier of foreign seafood. The accounts of ex-slaves, Thai fishing syndicates, officials, exporters and anti-trafficking case workers, illuminate an opaque offshore supply chain enmeshed in slavery.
In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people. Thirty years later, a Guatemalan living in the US got a phone call from a woman who told him that two boys had been abducted during the massacre – and he was one of them.
See also: “Finding Oscar” (Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana • ProPublica, Fundación MEPI)
In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people. Thirty years later, a Guatemalan living in the US got a phone call from a woman who told him that two boys had been abducted during the massacre – and he was one of them.
See also: “Finding Oscar” (Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana • ProPublica, Fundación MEPI)
Mar–Sep 2012 Permalink
At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.
Brian Barrett Wired Jun 2020 30min Permalink
It’s a mess inside the network – and Brian Williams may still come out on top.
Gabriel Sherman New York Mar 2015 25min Permalink
South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.
Brian Goldstone California Sunday Nov 2019 20min Permalink
On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.
Brian Stelter New York Times Magazine Apr 2013 20min Permalink
The story behind an Instagram sensation is the story of a changing coastal Maine.
Brian Kevin Down East Dec 2019 20min Permalink