In magic circles, Robbins is regarded as a kind of legend. Psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and the military study his methods for what they reveal about the nature of human attention. Photograph by Martin Schoeller A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act…

Image courtesy of Koen Schepers I am sharing a turkey sandwich from the Alcatraz landing cafe with my mother—who is here on vacation and the sole motivation for this outing. I hear the woman behind us on the ferry say, “I’d really just rather not eat than eat something not good, you know? I eat…

Today, Rooster T. Feather s Comedy Club at 157 West El Camino Real in Sunnyvale, California — slap-bang in the middle of Silicon Valley — faces out to a Chinese restaurant and taqueria across a three-lane road. It’s squeezed between a Goodyear garage and a check-cashing place; on the corner is the…

Tim Ralston is building an empire selling the Crovel, a half-shovel, half-weapon for practical-minded doomsday preppers, spinning the American Dream out of our worst nightmares. In the woods and up the creek with the end times' greatest success story. Somewhere in Arizona, a man I have known for…

Welcome to the Hotel of Doom: The 3,000 room monstrosity in Kim Jong-Un's starving dictatorship no foreigner has stepped inside... until now The world's biggest hotel is set to open in North Korea next year When it opens it will be 26 years after building work began It is built in Pyongyang, a city…

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Wednesday, May 12 2010 click to flip through (9) Frank Gaglione Epic Weird Man On Feb. 15, Thomas Bruso's already unpredictable life took an abrupt detour. It was the day he ceased being Thomas Bruso and became Epic Beard Man, Internet sensation. That day, Bruso pulled on his custom-made "I am a…

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Illustration by Mark Matcho Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Don’t take anything that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at “Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide…

Modern snake oil salesmen In February 2008, "out of the blue," Joseph got a call from a salesman that identified himself as Ron Martino from PushTraffic, with a work from home opportunity. "I told him what had happened to me, and he said, ‘gee... I have a brother who’s paraplegic. I know what you’re…

HTC Windows Phone 8x As many of you know, I have a tendency to fall back on automotive metaphors when trying to describe the mobile industry. What can I say? Cars are familiar and relatable. So imagine this: you walk into your local dealer (for the purposes of this analogy, said dealer sells all…

People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. Donald Chan/Reuters When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of…

Creator and executive producer Aaron Sorkin poses at the premiere of the HBO television series "The Newsroom" at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles, California June 20, 2012. MARIO ANZUONI/Reuters Aaron Sorkin knows the weight of last words, and his last words to me, as we walk-and-talk out of the HBO…

The village will be protected by electric fences and 24/7 surveillance cameras. Olivia Harris/Getty Images AMERICAN TARGET SHOOTER Josh Lakatos faced a conundrum. Halfway through the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he and his rifle-toting teammates were finished with their events, and the U.S.…

Leif Parsons The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living. The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia…

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Because the President’s limousine passed almost exactly in front of Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder on Nov. 22, 1963, just as he was playing with his new film camera, and precisely at the moment that Lee Harvey Oswald fired his rifle from a nearby books depository, his silent,…

“Set a goal to go completely paperless by 2015 in every department and every aspect of city government,” he wrote. “We waste countless dollars pushing paper around in an outdated and inefficient matter.” The mayor saluted him. This was in line with broader digital initiatives in the city — plans to…

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Peter Yang Published in the October 2012 issue On or about March 15 of this year, Teller — the smaller, quieter half of the magicians Penn & Teller — says he received an e-mail from a friend in New York. In that e-mail, the friend included a link to a video on YouTube called the Rose & Her Shadow.…

I can remember the specific moment when I swore off the sex lives of the famous as journalistic currency. It was the case of a national sportscaster — I won’t name him, but, alas, most of those old enough will remember the name, which is regrettable — whose sex life had suddenly become the media…

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Alson Kelen is seated comfortably on the grave of his great aunt, at the far eastern end of Bikini Island in the vast, hyperblue beyond of the Pacific Ocean. He is telling a story of a lost paradise, of a life he lived on this island a long time ago. He is 44 years old now, a short, barrel-chested…

Peter Molyneux has always been a dreamer. As a student at England’s Southampton Solent University in the early ’80s, he hatched a scheme to make a fortune by driving up to Scotland, buying a bunch of salmon, and then returning to sell it to local restaurants at a fantastic profit. It was only on the…

The irony of President Barack Obama is best captured in his comments on the death of Trayvon Martin, and the ensuing fray. Obama has pitched his presidency as a monument to moderation. He peppers his speeches with nods to ideas originally held by conservatives. He routinely cites Ronald Reagan. He…

A landing for the ferry that runs between the mainland and the small island Cayo Granma, which is near the mouth of the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Andrew Moore/Yancey Richardson Gallery On the plane, something odd but also vaguely magical-seeming happened: namely, nobody knew what time it was.…

Curt Schilling set out to build the greatest video-game company the world had ever seen, and to get rich — Bill Gates rich — doing it. Instead, the whole thing exploded in his face. Drawing on exclusive interviews with the Red Sox legend and his former employees, Jason Schwartz takes us inside the…

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If you've been to Vegas, you've heard about it or stood in line to get in. Marquee, the superest of the superclubs, sprawls over an astonishing 60,000 square feet. It allows you to party very, very hard. For just thousands of dollars! Would you like bottle service at one of our dance-floor tables?…

Grace Under Pressure Topher Grace on His Notorious Role in BlacKkKlansman In Spike Lee’s fiery new film, the actor plays against type as white supremacist David Duke. by K. Austin Collins Grace Under Pressure Topher Grace on His Notorious Role in BlacKkKlansman In Spike Lee’s fiery new film, the…

The Hollywood Reporter spends a week with the man who put Tina Fey, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell on the map. "God this is scary. F---!" Helen Mirren is standing in the doorway of a cramped conference room on the 17th floor of NBC's celebrated 30 Rockefeller Center, staring in surprise at a sea of…