“My name is Jackie and I am addicted to waitressing.” An essay on waiting tables.

Don’t call them “foodies.”

On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.

An interview with the experimental filmmaker and Hollywood chronicler Kenneth Anger, 85.

On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.

Academics are convinced it’s an intelligent satire.

A BASE jumper emerges from a coma after a bad fall and sets about rebuilding his body and his life.

How an L.A. high school dropout became an enforcer for Mexican cartels and ended up on the F.B.I. Most Wanted List.

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

An interview with R. Crumb on how he adapted Genesis into comic form.

Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.

On the longstanding human fascination with a light source we could borrow but not share.

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

“There’s no blueprint for remediating a radioactive town and then moving people back into it.”

A boy whose skin blisters at the smallest touch is fighting for his life.

Can a $100,000 robot that makes a delicious crab bisque replace a real chef?

As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?

James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies.

He had the gear, the charm, the trail stories. He found his marks in outdoorsy women.

What the heck happened?

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

“If we don’t run, then we won’t achieve.”

An interview with Maurice Sendak.

San Francisco’s forgotten serial killer.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.