Reading this interview with Kevin Rose will make your stomach hurt.

The autopsy of the Web’s once-dominant photo site.

Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Didn’t turn out that way.

The story of a major music industry opportunity missed.

One of the most valuable cars in the world crashes on the Pacific Coast Highway. Its owner claims to be an anti-terrorism officer. In fact, he’s a former executive at a failed software company—and a career criminal. The unraveling of an epic con.

How what was once one of the most popular websites on Earth—with ambitions to redefine music, dating, and pop culture—became a graveyard of terrible design and failed corporate initiatives.

On Suck.com, the Web’s first daily-updated site.

The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.

The history of safety crises in football, why this one is different, and how it could change the game.

Searching for proof that football will endure.

The demise of a Pro Bowl safety, whose last wish before shooting himself in the chest was for his brain to be sent to the NFL’s brain bank.

A profile of Dr. Ann McKee: preeminent neuropathologist, Packers fan, football’s “only hope.”

How different are dogfighting and football?

The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.

A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.

Erwynn Umali, Will Behrens and the first gay wedding on a military base.

The marriage and divorce that bankrupted the Dodgers.

In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.

The dissolution of Brooklyn softcore skin-mag Jacques and the marriage of the couple that created it.

The frenzied few days before the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.

How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.

Scott Storch, a producer who earned six figures for beats he made in less than an hour, was worth an estimated $70 million. Then he blew it all in a bizarre cocaine binge.

The rise and fall of the Black Mafia Family, once one of the largest cocaine empires in American history.

A profile of Gil-Scott Heron.

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.

Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi and the making of The Blues Brothers.

Customer feedback on the New York City coke dealing industry.

Two aggressive Dallas cops. One confidential informant. Hundreds of pounds of cocaine. Fifty-three drug traffickers busted. Sound too good to be true? It was.

The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style.

On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.

“My father didn’t believe in things that were a reminder of the past because he had never had things in the past, and, more important, he had never had a past—not a past that mattered, that should be passed on to me, his son.”

A melancholic Billy Ray Cyrus on the trauma of being the father of a famous 18-year-old girl, his friendship with Kurt Cobain, and his favorite mullet nicknames (Kentucky Waterfall and Missouri Compromise).

An essay on African-American fatherhood.

Dominick Dunne’s account of the trial of his daughter’s murderer.

Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together.