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One night in Newark with Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen.
“No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!” he screams over the noise of the crowd, and then screams it again, to make sure I understand: “No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!”
The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.
A profile of Fiona Apple.
Visiting his daughter in San Francisco, the author longs for food delivery in Manhattan.
The people behind San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
The man who made millions selling counterfeit wines.
On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.
A profile of the Hollywood star-maker behind Vanna White, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.
An interview with John Waters.
Real life is seeing and art is looking. If you’re successful, it’s a magic trick: you take one thing, and you put it in here, and it changes in one second, and then you can never look at that thing again the same way. That is what art is to me.
How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.
A profile of fashion designer Nudie Cohn, who made clothing for Elvis, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and others.
A profile of the Against Me! frontman.
Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom.
The author recounts playing herself – best-selling author Sloane Crosley – on an episode of “Gossip Girl.”
A profile of filmmaker Michael Haneke.
On tour with America’s first 50-year-old rock band.
Growing up on B-movies.
A history of the fowl.
The political fight over a new football stadium in Minnesota.
The story behind “the best brisket you’ll ever eat.”
A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.
A painter’s dogged, doomed pursuit of the perfect $100 bill.
A profile of singer-songwriter Will Oldham.
He has settled into character as an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music, and he has become, in his own subterranean way, a canonical figure. Johnny Cash covered him, Björk has championed him (she invited him to appear on the soundtrack of “Drawing Restraint 9”), and Madonna, he suspects, has quoted him (her song “Let It Will Be” seems to borrow from his “O Let It Be,” though he says, “I’m fully prepared to accept that it’s a coincidence”).
A posthumous profile of Whitney Houston.
“I didn’t realize who my father was. So it didn’t make a whole lot of difference. I wasn’t there believing that I was receiving genius from on high. My father was my father.”
