Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? Part 10: 1999
“By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …” In a grim finale, the nineties get their Altamont.
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“By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …” In a grim finale, the nineties get their Altamont.
Steven Hyden AV Club Feb 2011 15min Permalink
A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.
Hugh Martin Grantland Jun 2014 15min Permalink
How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants.
Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2016 35min Permalink
Julia, a 30-year-old, has spent her life trying not to take more than what she needs from the world. It’s made life very difficult.
Larissa MacFarquhar The Guardian Sep 2015 25min Permalink
The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.
Jessi Hempel Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink
How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.
Matt Goodman D Magazine Feb 2016 20min Permalink
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”
Annie Dillard The Atlantic Jan 1982 25min Permalink
The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism
Rembert Browne Time Aug 2018 15min Permalink
How the former Fear Factor host’s podcast became an essential platform for “freethinkers” who hate the left.
Justin Peters Slate Mar 2019 20min Permalink
When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.
Nathan Heller New Yorker Jun 2019 20min Permalink
“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”
Jason Fagone Huffington Post Highline Apr 2017 30min Permalink
The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.
Hua Hsu New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink
In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice
Vicky Mochama The Walrus Sep 2020 15min Permalink
The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.
Alex Abad-Santos Vox Dec 2020 30min Permalink
On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner ESPN Mar 2016 20min Permalink
A little alcohol can boost creativity and strengthen social ties. But there’s nothing moderate, or convivial, about the way many Americans drink today.
Kate Julian The Atlantic Jun 2021 25min Permalink
In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.
Wright Thompson The Atlantic Jul 2021 30min Permalink
Inside the criminal operation illegally buying, selling and killing tigers – and selling their meat at the local butcher.
Jon Yates, Maurice Possley Chicago Tribune Nov 2002 15min Permalink
Finding personal stories buried deep in the YouTube comments.
Mark Slutsky Buzzfeed Jan 2014 15min Permalink
Predicting the first 100 days.
Evan Osnos New Yorker Sep 2016 20min Permalink
Life when you’re seven feet tall.
Tom Breihan The Classical Aug 2012 10min Permalink
The con man who cost Google $500 million.
Jake Pearson Wired May 2013 20min Permalink
How the modern pig farm came to be.
Sujata Gupta Mosaic Jun 2014 20min Permalink
On domestic violence and the NFL.
Louisa Thomas Grantland Sep 2014 10min Permalink
“Over the years, it’s been hard to get male movie stars to be in a movie if a woman’s the lead, where a great, great movie star, a woman, will be in a movie where the man’s the lead. So there’s just not parity there, we’re not on equal footing.”
Amy Larocca New York Sep 2015 25min Permalink