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Inside the Epoch Times: How an aspiring poet in Brooklyn became a tool in a right-wing propaganda blitz linked to Falun Gong.
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Inside the Epoch Times: How an aspiring poet in Brooklyn became a tool in a right-wing propaganda blitz linked to Falun Gong.
Oscar Schwartz The Atavist Magazine Oct 2020 50min Permalink
When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.
K.J. Yossman Elle Nov 2020 Permalink
A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.
Erika Hayasaki Wired Feb 2021 Permalink
Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in?
Brendan Bures Input Magazine May 2021 Permalink
When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.
Olivia Carville Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 20min Permalink
“As we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money?”
Ariston Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola The 99 Percent Jan 2011 10min Permalink
An 11-month investigation ends with a booster, now in prison for a Ponzi scheme, going public with details of how he spent millions on college athletes from 2002 to 2010.
[Shapiro] said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play including bounties for injuring opposing players, travel and, on one occasion, an abortion.
Charles Robinson Yahoo! Sports Aug 2011 30min Permalink
How a creator of Assassin’s Creed sold investors on a magic marijuana product that he claimed could predictably produce specific feelings in users.
Update: Co-founder Michael Wendschuh has attempted to subpoena Alex Halperin’s notes and sources.
Alex Halperin Pando Jun 2016 Permalink
“I haven’t put out an album in 20 years. Let’s face it. I am an oldies act. I just don’t want it to be like when you watch Channel 13 and there’s the Delltones or some English band from the ’60s, and they’re real crotchety and they look terrible, and I go, ‘Oh, God, I don’t want to be on that show.’”
Andrew Goldman, Billy Joel New York Times Magazine May 2013 20min Permalink
“Howard Stern’s a bad motherfucker, man..if I had to be on six hours a day, it would be just as nasty and foul and not sophisticated. The fact that you’re going to see me do an hour every four years? Reduce Howard Stern to an hour every four years, you’d have the most brilliant comedian who ever lived. It’s not even close.”
Chris Rock, Scott Raab Esquire Mar 2011 Permalink
How Harper Lee was duped into signing away the rights to To Kill a Mockingbird, which still sells 750,000 copies per year, and how she’s fighting to get them back.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2013 30min Permalink
The former Van Halen front man has actually made more money from booze and food than from music.
Rebecca Flint Marx San Francisco Magazine Jul 2015 15min Permalink
From the campaign trail to California, Martha Stewart to John Wayne — our favorite essays and profiles by Joan Didion.
For immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, applications for visas, asylum, green cards, and naturalization can take decades. Unless you’re willing to be an informant for the FBI.
Talal Ansari, Siraj Datoo Buzzfeed Jan 2016 15min Permalink
No one really knows the script for days like these, and neither did we.
Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks New York Times Mar 2011 10min Permalink
After robbing two video stores with a friend, Rene Lima-Marin was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. Then, due to a clerical error, he was released 88 years too early.
Robert Kolker The Marshall Project, Matter Apr 2015 20min Permalink
Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.
He went from a viral pop hit to an arrest for conspiracy to murder charges in just under six months. Was Bobby Shmurda “too real” for his label?
Robert Kolker New York May 2015 25min Permalink
An inside look at how an ad agency sells a car in 2015.
Jessica Pressler New York May 2015 20min Permalink
In 1995, the Chicago Reader profiled a little-known professor (and lawyer and philanthropist and author) who had decided to run for office to get back to his true passion: community organizing.
Hank De Zutter Chicago Reader Dec 1995 15min Permalink
The author wanted to give up her day job but keep her lifestyle. So she turned to Seeking Arrangement, a site that pairs rich, older men interested in “companionship” with 20-somethings interested in “gifts.”
Melanie Berliet Vanity Fair May 2010 10min Permalink
Seventeen years after taking the iconic “Afghan Girl” photograph for National Geographic, Steve McCurry went back to find her.
Cathy Newman National Geographic Apr 2002 Permalink
Six months after playing an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, a rambling Dylan holds forth on style, songwriting, and fame. “People have one great blessing—obscurity—and not really too many people are thankful for it.”
Nat Hentoff Playboy Feb 1966 35min Permalink
White women between 25 and 55 have been dying at accelerating rates over the past decade. Anna Marrie Jones was one.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Apr 2016 15min Permalink
“I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.”
Stephen Harrigan Texas Monthly Jun 2016 45min Permalink