On 3 September 2005 – less than a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast – I began to understand that America cared little about what was happening in New Orleans . I was an undergraduate at Davidson College in North Carolina at the time, worried out of my mind because my family in…

Before Stones Throw Records moved into its current brick-and-mortar Highland Park, Los Angeles location on Figueroa St. in the late ‘90s, it was four guys in a house figuring things out, albeit four guys who had amassed quite the record collection. Many of those LPs belonged to DJ and founder Chris…

Debbie Sterling’s GoldieBlox is now grossing $300,000+ per month. My specialty is modeling success. I analyze what works and ask: what recipe can I find that others can use? In this post, we’ll dissect five successful online businesses. Some of them (e.g. GoldieBlox) are now grossing $300,000+ per…

OAKLAND, Calif. — In recent months, journalists covering crime and other stories here have themselves become victims of crime, robbed of expensive cameras, sometimes at gunpoint. In less than a year, every major television news station in the Bay Area has been a victim, some more than once. One…

April 16, 2013 By Gene Demby | Cover photo by Alyson B rooklyn Park, Minn., which sits just to the northwest of Minneapolis and hugs the Mississippi River, was once the quintessential American suburb: Pretty sleepy. Midwestern. Mostly white. Jesse Ventura, the garrulous former Minnesota governor and…

The nineteen-forties Bing Crosby hit “White Christmas” is a key part of the national emotional regression that occurs every Christmas. Between Christmases, Crosby is most often remembered as a sometimes-brutal father, thanks to a memoir by his son Gary . Less remarked upon is Crosby’s role as a…

For more on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television, and sports, see Fast Company’ s 100 Most Creative People In Business 2013 report. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are plenty proud of their hit sketch-comedy show Key & Peele , but they have no…

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the two stars of Comedy Central’s Key & Peele –have a funny way of presenting race in their sketch comedy show: They make it elemental yet somehow beside the point. It’s a finely honed balancing act unlike anything else out there right now. (In no place else will…

Last of three parts This story was reported by the Globe Spotlight Team, reporters Bob Hohler, Marcella Bombardieri, Jonathan Saltzman and editor Thomas Farragher. It was written by Hohler and Farragher. The crime-scene photos loop like a stubborn nightmare in a hushed classroom at a Boston police…

In the corner of Building 4 , a massive complex at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, the ghostly skeleton of a pickup truck endures a constant torment. The truck has no wheels, no bed, no seats, and no steering column—it’s just a vacant shell and a set of pedals. Inside, a pneumatic piston is…

ninety-nine glimpses The Everlasting Appeal of Princess Margaret A new book explains why the Queen’s younger sister has a story worth telling. by Hilary Weaver ninety-nine glimpses The Everlasting Appeal of Princess Margaret A new book explains why the Queen’s younger sister has a story worth…

The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate and orders him to put on…

In the middle of March, a nineteen-year-old Tunisian woman named Amina Tyler posted two topless photos of herself on Facebook. In one, she looks straight at the camera, her middle fingers up, with the words “Fuck Your Morals” painted across her bare chest, the black “O” of “morals” not quite closing…

Previous 1 2 3 Page 3 Page 3 of 3 The Apple IIe Warehouse Lots of people fell in love with the Apple IIe when it was released in 1983. It supported a wide variety of software and hardware, it was reliable, and its seven internal expansion slots made it extremely flexible. Kevin Huffman sitting next…

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times ON Feb. 26, 2010, a snowstorm canceled Dr. Hank Chien’s surgery schedule, allowing him to sleep in, and the world of competitive Donkey Kong would never be the same. That night, a well-rested Dr. Chien, 37, fired up the 30-year-old Donkey Kong arcade game that stands…

An inmate sunbathes on the deck of his bungalow on Bastoy. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro T he first clue that things are done very differently on Bastoy prison island, which lies a couple of miles off the coast in the Oslo fjord, 46 miles south-east of Norway's capital, comes shortly after I board the…

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Christopher Wallace is dead, murdered in the early hours of March 9, 1997, one block from my childhood home in Los Angeles. But exactly two weeks after his death, Wallace’s alter ego, the Notorious B.I.G., rose again with the album Life After Death . Geppetto was gone, but his Pinocchio lived on.…

Haggenberg Schloss Haggenberg is an imposing 17th-century baroque castle about an hour’s drive north of Vienna and a little short of Austria’s border with Slovakia. Built around an enclosed courtyard, it stands four storeys high, a foreboding stone structure that appears impenetrable aside from the…

Recently Emily White, an intern at NPR All Songs Considered and GM of what appears to be her college radio station, wrote a post on the NPR blog in which she acknowledged that while she had 11,000 songs in her music library, she’s only paid for 15 CDs in her life. Our intention is not to embarrass…

Riccardo Tinelli When I was 26, my then roommate was a great scavenger of furniture. One day, she came home with a daybed frame: a twin-size wooden box with only three legs, which is likely why someone had left it on a curb in the first place. The frame sat propped against our dining room wall for…

In early 2009, three years prior to Taco Bell’s 50th anniversary, CEO Greg Creed was already experiencing something of a midlife crisis. “Our target audience is [customers] in their 20s. Turning 50 makes us sound old, and I didn’t want to sound old,” Creed explains. “I said, ‘When we have our…

Intelligence Report The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. Subscribe here for a print copy. An inmate describes how he survives the rigors of anti-Semitism on the yard, and ponders where the experience has brought him David Arenberg had everything going for him. He was smart,…

Editor's note: As if we'd let the PS4 outing for Shadow of the Colossus pass by without returning to this - an article that's been republished as many times as the game has been remastered, at least. Craig Owens' piece was first published back in 2013 (and if you wondered what Craig was up to…

Marc Phares/Epic Studios You have to imagine what it was like being Don Carcieri in the harsh winter of 2010. As Rhode Island’s governor, a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, he had come into office seven years earlier as a business executive turned politician, vowing to retool the…

Human brains are remarkably inefficient in some key ways: our memories are lousy; our grasp of logic is shallow, and our capacity to do arithmetic is dismal. Our collective cognitive shortcomings are so numerous I’ve written a book about them. And yet, in some ways, we continue to far outstrip the…

The life of a taxi driver is hard. When cabbies start a shift, they owe about $100 to their company as payment just for the opportunity drive a taxi. They might not break even until halfway through their shift, or maybe not at all that day. In most American cities, they have to work very long hours…

nelsongeorge: Read Steven Soderbergh‘s Epic 'State Of Hollywood Cinema' SFIFF Keynote Speech | Shadow and Act http://t.co/6TKBGX2LWs Sharp observations.

"We were asked to hate everything Indian," said 26-year-old Arnab (shown in his Delhi flat). Photographs: Sanjit Das/Panos Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. I stand flush against the window of a Toyota showroom, trying to stay in a shrinking sliver of shade. We’re on…

Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get things right. That’s where Brilliantly Canceled comes in, looking at the shows that didn’t make it past their…

Normally, Brilliantly Canceled brings you the worst in TV, but with the spirit of giving quickly escaping the earth, only to lay dormant for the next 351 days, we decided to bring you something to get your 2013 off on the right foot. With the New Year’s baby pushing the withered remains of 2012 into…

After Reddit’s attempt to find the Boston Marathon bombers turned into a major failure (for which Reddit’s general manager Erik Martin publicly apologized Monday ), the over-all conclusion seems to be that the whole experiment was misguided from the start, and that the Redditors’ inability to…

At first it seemed like just another senseless shooting in an already violent summer. A little after 4 AM on Monday, August 18, 2008, two men were fired on as they sat in a Mercedes outside the Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's. By the time police arrived four minutes later, the Mercedes was on its way to…

Mike Merrill, 35, works in tech support in Portland, Oregon. In 2008 he offered 100,000 shares of himself to investors. Photo by Chris Buck On January 26, 2008, a 30-year-old part-time entrepreneur named Mike Merrill decided to sell himself on the open market. He divided himself into 100,000 shares…