The Life and Death of Jaco Pastorius
“What can I say about Jaco? When I first met him he was extremely present tense and, I would have to say for lack of a better term, extremely sage.”
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“What can I say about Jaco? When I first met him he was extremely present tense and, I would have to say for lack of a better term, extremely sage.”
Joni Mitchell Musician Magazine Dec 1987 10min Permalink
An Oklahoma rehab center puts defendants to grueling, dangerous work in a chicken processing plant. They receive neither pay nor treatment for their addictions.
Amy Julia Harris, Shoshana Walter Reveal Oct 2017 Permalink
An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.
Laura Rena Murray Rolling Stone Sep 2017 20min Permalink
“It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism–the real motives for which despotic governments act.” Memories of a British soldier in Burma.
George Orwell New Writing May 1936 15min Permalink
The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.
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A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Feb 2004 25min Permalink
Franklin Chang Díaz immigrated to the U.S. at 18, became an astronaut, tied the record for most spaceflights, and now might hold the key to deep space travel.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Jan 2018 20min Permalink
“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”
Kevin Robillard Politico Magazine Mar 2018 15min Permalink
At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.
David Ewing Duncan Vanity Fair Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Skinny, sober, happily married, and seemingly full of radiant light, Gucci's become an improbably inspiring public figure, a beacon of serenity and gratitude for positivity-starved times.
Alex Pappademas GQ Sep 2018 10min Permalink
It didn't matter if these clubs were in Cleveland, Portland, Corpus Christi or Baton Rouge—if it was a nightclub, the owners were the Mob. For a good forty years the Mob controlled American show business.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Feb 2012 30min Permalink
For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.
Janet Reitman New York Times Magazine Nov 2018 50min Permalink
Pope Benedict XVI’s post-retirement presence in the Vatican has set the stage for a conflict that threatens to split the Catholic Church into two.
John Cornwell Vanity Fair Nov 2018 25min Permalink
A 1993 profile of Ricky Jay, world-class sleight-of-hand conjurer who rarely performs (and never for children), historian of unusual entertainments and confidence scams, bibliomaniac.
Mark Singer New Yorker Apr 1993 1h Permalink
Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.
Gian Volpicelli Wired UK Dec 2018 30min Permalink
Women’s recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.
Nazish Brohi Guernica Dec 2018 20min Permalink
Tekashi 6ix9ine was SoundCloud rap’s most notorious star. But the same instincts that made him huge may put him in prison for years
Stephen Witt Rolling Stone Jan 2019 30min Permalink
Angelika Graswald, also known as the Kayak Killer, went to jail for letting her fiancé drown in the Hudson River. Now she’s out on parole and looking to clear her name.
Kat Stoeffel Elle Feb 2019 20min Permalink
In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
Rachel Kushner New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink
Two years ago, the climbing photographer known as Nathan Smith saw no way out, after struggling for years with gender-identity issues in the male-dominated outdoor industry. Then—slowly, bravely—Nikki introduced herself to the world.
Julie Ellison Outside Apr 2019 30min Permalink
The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?
Kaitlyn Tiffany The Goods May 2019 10min Permalink
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone May 2019 35min Permalink
It was a place where you could, whatever you needed could to look like, for so many folks who’d been told they could not.
Bryan Washington Buzzfeed Jun 2019 15min Permalink
When deep sea diver Dave Shaw reached the bottom of Bushman’s Hole, he discovered the body of Deon Dreyer. Though Dreyer had been gone for 10 years, Shaw was determined to bring him back.
Tim Zimmermann Outside Aug 2005 40min Permalink
How a Northern Californian rapper ended up facing life after being hired to produce a CD titled Generations of United Norteños – Till Eternity that may have served as a recruiting tool for the prison gang Nuestra Familia.
Justin Berton East Bay Express Oct 2003 Permalink