Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove The drummer, master collaborator, and pop historian talks about his memoir, including stories about Prince, Al Green, and gaining his father's acceptance. by Contributor Paper Trail Rap June 13 2013 When Pitchfork ran a career-spanning interview with…

09.29.2003 When John Titor first showed up on IRC chat in October of 2000, he was enjoying a neat kind of double billing - as his 38-year-old self sat downstairs in the kitchen, typing away, a two-year-old version of himself lay sound asleep upstairs in bed. The elder Titor had been sent back in…

11.21.2003 I knew that those troublemaker sunspots were rotating back into view this week, but I was still afraid to get my hopes up too high. The gate agent saw the geeky glint in my eye and was kind enough to reassign me to a window seat on the northern side of the plane. I was going to try to see…

08.03.2005 The Space Shuttle Discovery is up in orbit, safely docked to the International Space Station, and for the next five days, astronauts will be busy figuring out whether it's safe for them to come home. In the meantime, the rest of the Shuttle fleet is grounded (confined to base, not allowed…

xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#"> In the final part of my interview with Prime Minister Pete Nice, the Hip-Hop legend talks about recording his 1993 solo album "Dust To Dust", the death of KMD's DJ Subroc and the legacy of 3rd Bass - make sure you check Part One, Part Two and Part Three before…

by Susan Orlean The New Yorker February 22, 1999 Jill Meilus is a New York City real-estate broker. Like Superman, she can see through walls. Walking down a Manhattan street with her is a paranormal experience. "Nice building," you might remark as you pass a handsome but unrevealing prewar facade,…

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic! It’s as if we’ve broken…

By Amy Linden In 1988, politically charged hip hop legends Public Enemy became the first rap group to play at Rikers Island, a minimum-security jail in New York. PE frontman Chuck D and a number of insiders tell the story. For a generation raised on Carrie and the girls, luxury condos and cabs that…

Fort Irwin is a U.S. army base nearly the size of Rhode Island, located in the Mojave Desert about an hour's drive northeast of Barstow, California. There you will find the National Training Center , or NTC, at which all U.S. troops, from all the services, spend a twenty-one day rotation before they…

The Night I Broke Monopoly In the Easter of 1988, when I was eighteen years old and in my first year at college, I went on a boating trip with three friends: Steve, Rik, and Stu. It was the second time I'd gone away with friends rather than family, and pretty much the last, for within two years the…