To baseball, time is a tapestry. Babe Ruth is Hank Aaron is Barry Bonds. The sport's history blends together, starting in black and white, moving into color and then high-definition. More than in any other sport, baseball's caretakers nurture a sense of timelessness, actively cultivating nostalgia.…

Share Dan Diebold woke up to a hangover and a lot of emails Friday morning, all of them asking about a series of pictures he posted on reddit of what seemed to be the unicorn of gaming history: a prototype of the never released Nintendo Play Station . Only 200 of the consoles were said to have ever…

The Parks and Recreation star on how to be a man, how to love a woman, and why he'll never tweet again You might be surprised to learn that Nick Offerman—who plays iconic manly-man Ron Swanson on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation —has a giggle that can only be described as girlish. It is at once…

I t was early afternoon in Inglewood, California, about 10 minutes before the 12:30 p.m. televised start of the 1983 NBA All-Star Game, and Amanda Mayo was in a broom closet. Twenty minutes earlier, a panicked Lon Rosen, the Lakers’ director of promotions, had asked the 24-year-old team employee to…

Doom explains his mask as an effort to “control the story.” Illustration by Jaime Hernandez I first heard the rapper Daniel Dumile (pronounced DOOM -ee-lay) when I was fourteen and hip-hop was just beginning to bloom. The music was not so much “CNN for black people,” as Chuck D would later dub it,…

Photo: TriStar Pictures When director James Cameron was concocting 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day , he knew that he needed its villain to evolve beyond Terminator ’s formidable T-800, played — in both the original and the sequel — by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Enter the crew at George Lucas’s…

Today, Luke Malone published a story on Matter , a publication of Medium, with the headline “You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?” Fortunately, that “you” in that headline is probably not you , although it could be, and is also not Luke the writer; it’s a…

“I didn’t want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.” – Gene Kelly It’s hard to imagine — let alone remember — living in a world where it wasn’t a universally acknowledged truth that Channing Tatum used to be a stripper.…

Like his polar opposite Dershowitz, Scalia enjoyed having analytical arguments with the other side, as it tended to sharpen his own view. For his clerks, Scalia usually hired three conservatives and one liberal. But this practice sometimes had an unfortunate side effect. A number of Scalia’s liberal…

Cruel and All-Too-Usual Dana Liebelson When the video above was filmed, the girl on the bed was 17 years old. For the purposes of this story, I’ll call her Jamie. There was a time when she liked acting in goofy comedy skits at her Detroit church or crawling into bed with her grandmother to watch TV.…

Translator Sabine Sebastian tried to bring Seinfeld to Germans, yada yada yada, it flopped Like so many of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends on Seinfeld, Dolores was TV-beautiful, with glossy, reddish-blond hair, big blue eyes, full lips, and impeccable bone structure. Most of Jerry’s girlfriends brought…

From an avid Reader I just want to share some observations. Also, I don't work for Google or any other autonomous vehicle company - I just happen to live in Mountain View, CA and I've shared the road with cars that drive by themselves for the past year or so. I see no less than 5 self-driving cars…

If you are late for “Amy,” a new documentary about Amy Winehouse, you will miss her at her blithest. The year is 1998, and she is fifteen, fooling around with friends. They sing “Happy Birthday” together, but the other voices soon make way for hers: an extraordinary sound, as effortless as a…

Two Dissolve writers keep The Killer conversation going... Scott: Let’s flash back to the early ’90s. I was an undergrad at the University Of Georgia and a member of Cinematic Arts, a student organization that programmed a repertory house inside the Tate Center. Back then, we didn’t have the…

In Jean-Claude Van Damme’s latest film, the organ-theft thriller Pound Of Flesh , he owns the screen. He appears in almost every scene, and when he’s present, all the action revolves around him. Plot points exist only to nudge him from beatdown to beatdown. Other characters lives’ begin and end in…

Wonder Woman, introduced in 1941, was a creation of utopian feminism, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love. Photograph by Grant Cornett The Wonder Woman Family Museum occupies a one-room bunker beneath a two-story house on a hilly street in Bethel, Connecticut. It contains more…

GIRLS and the United Vanderpumping Heart of Jane Austen I Every time I board a commercial flight I think it’s going to crash. It’s not that I’m paralyzed with fear—or that I truly believe a crash will happen—but the thought always passes my mind for a brief moment when I cross the threshold from the…

Adam Levey 1. Youngstown, U.S.A. The end of work is still just a futuristic concept for most of the United States, but it is something like a moment in history for Youngstown, Ohio, one its residents can cite with precision: September 19, 1977. For much of the 20th century, Youngstown’s steel mills…

Bourdin once wrote, “When you fight monsters, be careful that . . . you do not become one.” Photograph by François-Marie Banier On May 3, 2005, in France, a man called an emergency hot line for missing and exploited children. He frantically explained that he was a tourist passing through Orthez,…

HappyDancing / Mega Pixel / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Last winter, William MacAskill and his wife Amanda moved into a Union Square apartment that I was sharing with several friends in New York. At first, I knew nothing about Will except what I could glean from some brief encounters, like his…

As long as the City of New York has owned Rikers Island, since the 1880s, it has been a place for the unwanted. For a time, pigs were raised for slaughter there. Not long afterward, the island — conveniently but remotely located in the East River between the Bronx and Queens, not 300 feet from where…

Diane and John Foley endured two kidnapping ordeals. Their son Jim, a journalist, was abducted in both Libya and Syria. Photographs by Carla Van De Puttelaar Five American families, each harboring a grave secret, took their seats around a vast dining table at the home of David Bradley, a Washington,…

Alex, a 23-year-old Sunday school teacher and babysitter, was trembling with excitement the day she told her Twitter followers that she had converted to Islam. For months, she had been growing closer to a new group of friends online — the most attentive she had ever had — who were teaching her what…

Richard Nixon was a traitor. The new release of extended versions of Nixon's papers now confirms this long-standing belief, usually dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" by Republican conservatives. Now it has been substantiated by none other than right-wing columnist George Will. Nixon's newly…

Sure, you've heard of Bridgegate, but Chris Christie's entire career is a veritable litany of ruthlessness. Now, as the bully who would be president jumps into the 2016 race, we've gathered his victims' stories. Presenting an abridged guide to the petty abuses and calculated skullduggery of the…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell. In the Green Mountains of southern Vermont, where I spent last week enjoying the fresh air, the world seemed like a quiet and peaceful place. I enjoyed some time with my family, swam in crystal-clear lakes, walked by a house where Norman Rockwell once lived, and tried…

The European Court ruled that Google must delete certain links that violate privacy. Illustration by Javier Jaén On October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father’s sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California. Catsouras was…

Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Stewart is hungry. He’s munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It’s a prominent piece of furniture in what will be the kitchen area for Stewart’s new…

There’s no helpline for pedophiles who want treatment before they act. So a teen with a terrible secret had to find his own way to save himself and others like him. By Luke Malone Illustrations by Simon Prades Nominated for a 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Interest , which honors magazine…

There’s a scene in The Virgin Suicides in which the neighborhood boys, who have long lingered on the sidelines of the Lisbon sisters’ lives, reach out to the girls over the phone. After hearing a single “hello,” they drop the needle on Todd Rundgren’s “Hello, It’s Me,” holding the receiver up to the…

Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at The New York Post who wrote the most anatomically evocative headline in the history of American journalism — HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR — died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 74. A former colleague, Myron Rushetzky, confirmed the death, of pancreatic cancer, at…

The Abortion Drone was a success, women in Poland receive medical abortions. The drone departed from Germany and landed at the opposite side of the river in Slubice, Poland. While the drones were crossing the German/Polish border , the German Police tried to intervene but the drone pilots were able…

“I’m not proud of the fact that I have to chase these records down like a maniac,” John Heneghan said of his search for rare (and expensive) 78 r.p.m. blues records. Theo Morrison for The New York Times JOHN HENEGHAN tugged a large shellac disc from its brown paper sleeve, placed it on a turntable…

Most of us old enough to have grown up with cassette tapes have fond memories of recording off the radio, copying albums, or making mix tapes. But we also recall that horrible moment when the tape you’re enjoying suddenly grinds to a halt. You press the eject button and try to pull out the cassette,…

Growing up in the 1970s, Bucks Burnett never even owned an eight-track tape: When his parents purchased their first post-LP stereo console, they went straight for a cassette player. “They were visionaries,” he says. But that hasn’t stopped Burnett from becoming the eight-track’s most vocal champion,…

Boomboxes are, by definition, excessive. With their deafening bass thud and dazzling chrome dials, these electric beasts are heavy enough to tone your biceps. Also known as “ghetto blasters” or “jamboxes,” they rose to fame in the 1980s along with hip-hop, flourishing as a tool for sharing and…