For Lucy, Emily, Bonnie, Mom When my niece was born a year and a half ago, I resolved to write her something that she could read as an older child or young adult that would be a distillation of the wisdom of my young mind. I once learned of a conversation that my mother, father, and uncle had had…
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I went to see Maurice Sendak last year at his home in Connecticut. The eighty-three-year-old was promoting his latest book, Bumble-Ardy, about an orphaned pig whose ninth-birthday festivities are gate-crashed by teenage swine. He came to the door with his dog, Herman (after Melville), and for the…
Today, I'm going to tell you about the time my grandfather shot a man in the ass. The year was 1949. The place was downtown Los Angeles. The occasion was a robbery with violence. A small store, I think: a tailor's, or maybe a family-run grocery market? History has not recorded all of the details.…
Negotiating the Kiss of Mud obstacle at Tough Mudder Toronto, August 2012. Tough Mudder founder Will Dean. Billy Wilson founded Tough Guy in 1985. Electroshock Therapy. Crossing Hangin' Tough. Scaling Everest. Trench Warfare. Atop Walk the Plank It's a warm March night in New York City. The Wix…
LOUIS C.K. EMERGES from the subway station: sullen, sweating. His balding crown of carrot colored hair is slightly brighter than his ruddy, freckled skin. The man is overweight but solid, like a fullback long past glory, in love with French fries, who still hits the gym. He’s got broad shoulders,…
One of the most controversial political attack ads of the year didn’t originate with an actual candidate or political party. It came from Stephen Colbert. Or more accurately, “Stephen Colbert,” his satirical alter ego. The ad was funded by Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, a super PAC…
Guy’s Big Bite Burger. (Photo via Flickr ) In January of 1968, the beginning of a year when the world caught on fire, Guy Ferry was born in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. And in that moment, though America would not realize it for years to come, she had welcomed into her heartland perhaps her…
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times LIKE Krazy and Ignatz, Carville and Matalin, Cupid and Psyche or Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, the peanut butter and pickle sandwich is one of those unlikely pairings that shouldn’t work, but does. That’s how I’ve always felt, anyway. I’ve been happily eating these…
When "Saturday Night Live" hosts and cast members stare into the camera, hoping to utter their lines with perfect comedic timing on live television, they are focused on one thing only: the cardboard cue cards held up by Wally Feresten. "Wally is a character in every sketch, you just don't see him,"…
O n Sunday, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner flew a helium balloon over the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, to a point higher than any manned balloon flight had reached before — more than 128,000 feet, so high that from inside his pressurized capsule, Baumgartner could look out on the darkness…
There is no mention of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf on the webpage for the win-a-Taylor-Swift-concert contest, which is surprising, since the school received the most votes. Sponsored by Papa John’s and Chegg, an online textbook rental company, the contest promised to send the pop singer to…
The last time Digg was something worth thinking about, Iraq was in the midst of civil war and Justin Timberlake was on the radio. The site went to ruin. It sold for pocket change . And now, with no warning, it's back—and it's beautiful. And the team that pulled it off isn't sure what to do now. Digg…
In 2010, former troupe-mates Donald Glover and DC Pierson returned from Los Angeles to perform at The Creek and The Cave, in New York City. Glover was tossed a question from an audience member: What’s it like working with Chevy Chase? In response, he described how Chase had delivered a 40-minute…
Even after his parachute opened, Tyler Stark sensed he was coming down too fast. The last thing he’d heard was the pilot saying, “Bailout! Bailout! Bail—” Before the third call was finished, there’d come the violent kick in the rear from the ejector seat, then a rush of cool air. They called it…
09.17. 2012 Diane Person and Stephanie Bourque My girlfriend Diane met Stephanie last October at a free makeup event for women with cancer called Look Good Feel Better. It was one of the curious get-togethers you get invited to when you are ill. Women showed up, got a make-up kit, and listened to…
On October 1, 2005 Bill Hader debuted on SNL , feeling lucky and surprised to be there. Now, seven years later, it seems like not much has changed. Hader might be entering his eighth season as the first male cast member since Eddie Murphy to be nominated for an Emmy for his performance on the show,…
Credit Illustration by Michael Gillette On August 17, 2010, I got an e-mail from Facebook notifying me that I had received a message. It was from my ex-boyfriend’s mother. Its subject heading was “Goodbye from Nancy and Bill.” Nancy and Bill are my ex-boyfriend’s parents, though I’ve changed their…
Zach Galifianakis as Marty Huggins and Will Ferrell as Cam Brady in The Campaign Photo by Patti Perret/Warner Bros Pictures. In The Campaign , which opens tomorrow , Will Ferrell is Cam Brady, an ambitious, skirt-chasing politician with a $900 haircut and a remarkable amount of self-admiration. So…
The Pangea 3000 members, standing up: Seth Reiss, Dan Klein, Arthur Meyer and Zack Poitras. Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times “THIS is our last show, indefinitely,” the actor-writer Arthur Meyer said, standing onstage at BAM Café on a recent Wednesday night. He glanced at the other three…
Celebrity The GQA: Nick Offerman 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…
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No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he gave Sabu up. On June 7, 2011, federal agents came to his apartment on New York’s Lower East Side and…
Photo Illustration by Erwin Olaf for The New York Times. Set Design: Jeffrey W. Miller. Special Effects: Jane Choi. Location: Bulthaup Showroom, New York. 1. JULIA’S CHILDREN I was only 8 when “The French Chef” first appeared on American television in 1963, but it didn’t take long for me to realize…
Radical hackers took up Hotz’s fight, although he never considered himself a cause. Credit Illustration by Ron Kurniawan In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile…
Last year, during his best three-month stretch, Jordan Golson sold about $750,000 worth of computers and gadgets at the Apple Store in Salem, N.H. It was a performance that might have called for a bottle of Champagne — if that were a luxury Mr. Golson could have afforded. “I was earning $11.25 an…
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One of the better spots to enjoy a bowl of ramen noodles here in New York is Minca, in the East Village. Minca is the kind of place just out of the way enough that as you’re about to get there, you start wondering if you’ve already passed it. A…
by J. Walsh If you watch enough modern comedies in theatres and on television, chances are you’ll come across Ken Jeong. Rising to fame as the easily frazzled Dr. Kuni in 2007’s Knocked Up, Jeong quickly made a name for himself in roles that both played to and occasionally worked against Asian…
T here’s no cheaper commodity in sports than that noxious mixture of potential and hype. Everyone’s selling it, and they’re digging deeper and younger to find it. Draft coverage — pick the sport — often gets more headlines than the games themselves. It’s no longer enough that 16-year-old football…
The Republic of Marfa by Sean Wilsey Isolation. In the middle of what’s known as Far West Texas, there is Marfa: a hardscrabble ranching community in the upper Chihuahuan desert, sixty miles north of the Mexican border, that inhabits some of the most beautiful and intransigent countryside…
Look, Google, we’ve got a plan to help you win on social. There’s only one catch: You have to give up on the notion that animates Google Plus.
Out in the Mojave Desert, there’s a place called California City that’s fascinated me ever since Geoff Manaugh brought its story to the Internet’s attention.…
This whole We Hate LeBron thing reminds me of a story. A woman is in front of an apartment house that's engulfed in flames. She's screaming, "Help! Help! My baby's in there!" A man sprints up and says, "Which floor?" "Tenth!" she screams. "In the back!" He rips off his coat and goes running in. Five…
Here’s the story Adam Fleischman likes to tell about the genesis of his Umami restaurant empire: Hunched over a ketchup-red plastic cafe-teria tray at the Culver City In-N-Out Burger, Fleischman, a 35-year-old wine entrepreneur, peers into a cardboard box flecked with french fry grease. He ponders…
How a young entrepreneur got caught living secretly at AOL CNET's Kara Tsuboi talks to Dan Terdiman about how he broke the story about the famous AOL squatter. by Kara Tsuboi Close Drag It was 6 a.m. when Eric Simons was jolted awake by the yelling. After working until 4 a.m, the 19-year-old…
Talking with Del Harvey of Twitter at pii2012 this morning. Del Harvey is the director of trust and safety for Twitter — a big job that covers areas including account activity and abuse, user safety, spam, legal issues and many other areas. This morning at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference,…
One of my favorite things about this time of year are the commencement addresses delivered to graduating students at colleges and universities across that country that pop up on YouTube. I enjoy watching/listening/reading these speeches because I think they’re often filled with wisdom and…
Top stories Getty Images Texas Bound Edwin Encarnacion hit a walk-off HR in the 11th inning to launch the Blue Jays over the Orioles and into the ALDS where they'll face the Rangers. 6:36 Scan All: Citizen Soldier 400 at Dover After a hectic weekend, NASCAR America gives you all access to the…
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The grand unifying theory of the American consumer has been that we are, first and foremost, low price fetishists. There’s ample evidence supporting this view: From Wal-Mart’s prominence to the fast food industry’s ongoing success, vast swaths of the economy are indeed built on…
With the Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York debuting Sunday at 8:30 before the Comedy Awards , I thought it was a perfect time to look back at the Between Two Ferns series. B2F has been incredibly popular, bringing in over 80 million views across the entire series, on Funny or Die alone.…
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