For treatment centers, addiction can be turned into a constant flow of revenue. Illustration by Brian Stauffer In February, 2017, I stepped off a plane in Tampa, drunk and dope-sick. I was twenty-four, and for the past eight years I had been shooting up heroin, cocaine, and all manner of pills:…

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Billy Gil '12 (right) and head football coach Butch Davis. Former student-athlete Billy Gil '12 is on the road to becoming a sports media celebrity. Sports By October 1, 2019 at 10:50am Billy Gil ’12 works on the most popular sports radio show in the United States, the Dan LeBatard Show with…

Untitled Goose Game, which has become a surprise hit, aims to make your day better by encouraging you to ruin someone else’s. A screenshot from Untitled Goose Game. Credit House House MELBOURNE, Australia — Sometimes, when you’ve had a rough day, the best answer is to go home, play at being a goose…

Nearly 30 years ago, a handful of smart people set out with one mission: to make some silly movies. What followed was a true golden age of Hollywood comedy that

This story was originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, May 15, 2005 Fifty years ago this week, Palm Beach County met the man who would steer its future: John D . MacArthur . George Frost was a young engineer in the early 1960s when he and a Palm Beach County commissioner walked into…

Baker Mayfield slides his considerable barrel of a body into a brown leather booth at a steak house just outside Cleveland and announces that tonight he's just

BEREA, Ohio -- Growing up, Baker Mayfield admired Green Bay Packers legend Brett Favre from afar. But up close, he idolized the quarterback now backing him up on the Cleveland Browns. Long before he emerged into an NFL franchise quarterback, Mayfield was an undersized middle-schooler, dreaming one…

S porting a buzz cut, prison blues and a chin-strap beard, the slim 24-year-old Floridian Brandon Hatfield leans sideways in a rolling office chair inside the St. Johns County Jail. With a warm Southern drawl and a crooked smirk, he says, “I remember half of what happened … and half of what didn’t.”…

Welcome to 1999 Music Week , a celebration of one of the most interesting, vivid, varied music years ever. Join us as we count down the best singles and albums of the year , remember the days of scrubs and the girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch, and argue about which albums stood above the rest. W…

Last year I set out to build a simple piece of software to let my daughter practice her “sight words” as she began to learn how to read. This was nothing fancy, just a program that flashed words for her to memorise on the screen. I’m not an expert programmer by any means, but while this task wasn’t…

You'd think Sunset Boulevard would be hard to impress at this point. But judging by the people scrambling for their phones and mouthing expletives as we drove by, they'd apparently never seen a Rolls-Royce quite like Odell Beckham Jr.'s before. The color, for starters, is an orange that's somewhere…

How Jackass changed television and no one seemed to notice By The first strings of Jackass ' frenetic theme song only hint at the chaos and comedic destruction that's to come. Johnny Knoxville's sober warning that these stunts are performed by trained professionals and that you shouldn't try them at…

A dozen or so kids line up to catch a pass from Baker Mayfield , and one of them is so gut-wrenchingly adorable, I briefly wonder if he's a plant. It's an absurd thought, but the whole scenario carries a whiff of predetermined charm. The visual of Mayfield playing football with hundreds of children…

It’s 7:20 p.m. when he rolls into Spicy Bite, one of the newest restaurants here in rural northwest New Mexico. Locals in Milan, a town of 3,321, have barely

In 2014, chef Davide Cerretini advertised a special that would forever change his fate: Anyone who left his restaurant a 1-star review on Yelp would get 25% off a pizza. See, his Bay Area-based Italian joint, Botto Bistro, was at a crossroads. Like many small businesses, it was enslaved to the whims…

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Getty Images/ Instagram /Ringer illustration The teens were drinking something called “yee-yee juice.” In some of the videos, they call it “yeehaw juice,” which makes more intuitive sense, but there is nothing necessarily intuitive about a “yee” potion of any type that turns young people into…

You know what I remember? Back before he made basketball matter in Miami, catapulting the Heat from a regional team to an international one. Back before he became Michael Jordan in the 2006 Finals, carrying Shaquille O'Neal to a championship. Back before he put together the most interesting sports…

W hen the police break your teammate’s leg, you’d think it would wake you up a little. When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you’d think it would sink in. You’d think you’d know there was more to the story. You’d think.…

On “Saturday Night Live” and in a series of movies, Hader’s comedic shape-shifting delighted audiences. On “Barry,” which he co-created, he plays a hit man desperately trying to get out of the game by starting a new career—as an actor. Photograph by Malerie Marder for The New Yorker Bill Hader’s…

The first time Mike Judge worked in an office, he lasted three weeks. While taking time off from college, he landed a job alphabetizing purchase orders through

Williams & Hirakawa for ESPN B ryce Harper is sinking deeper and deeper into the couch, like a handful of loose change. The sky outside this luxury waterfront condo somewhere in the vicinity of Clearwater, Florida, is the color of faded denim. A few feet from the windows, pelicans interrupt their…

John Mulaney. Photo: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC We may never know whether or not John Mulaney wrote for Saturday Night Live , but one thing’s for sure: He’s one of the nicest and funniest comedians working today . Thankfully, 2019 has given us a whole lot of Mulaney so far, from his standout…

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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. If you're of a certain age, and of a certain personality type, there is probably no sentence more evocative of youth than: "Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to Jackass !" The show was wildly successful, inspiring kids around the world to cycle directly…

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A conversation with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey can be incredibly disorienting. Not because he’s particularly clever or thought-provoking, but because he sounds like he should be. He takes long pauses before he speaks. He furrows his brow, setting you up for a considered response from the man many have…

Emily Haasch New Year’s Eve, 2014 I weigh 460 pounds . Those are the hardest words I’ve ever had to write. Nobody knows that number—not my wife, not my doctor, not my closest friends. It feels like confessing a crime. The average American male weighs about 195 pounds; I’m two of those guys, with a…

His first job was riding a bicycle through neighborhoods in Miramar, tossing newspapers onto front lawns. He only had 23 customers, so the papers all fit in one basket. “The rainy days were the tough ones,” he said. At 19 he made his first money writing. It was for the River Cities Gazette, a…

Photo: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photo by Getty Images There is a scene in Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice in which a group of improvisers gathers to watch “Weekend Live,” the film’s version of Saturday Night Live . Seemingly in response to something Birbiglia’s character said about a certain…

Friend, have you heard the good news? Bread is back. After a 20-year period of privileged carb-fearing in America, our hunger for hearty artisan bread has returned in a way that we haven’t experienced since the ’90s . It’s once again romantic — healthful even — to eat preservative-free, crusty,…

Last week, one of my students asked me what makes someone a good front-end engineer. This is a highly subjective topic, but I’m happy to share my very opinionated perspective on this. The least important skill for a front-end developer # The least important skills for a front-end developer to have…

Virgin Galactic is competing with startups like SpaceX and Blue Origin to be the first private company to send tourists into space—a mission that some experts have deemed irresponsibly risky. Unlike its rivals, Virgin Galactic does not use automated vehicles. Once a Virgin Galactic ship is airborne,…

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In June 2016, Antonio Perkins unintentionally broadcast his own death to the world. It was a sunny day in Chicago, and he was sharing it on Facebook Live, a platform for distributing video in real-time, released just a few months earlier. The video is long. It features Perkins doing mundane summer…

Juliette Toma Johnny Knoxville captured the Jackass ethos when he said, “There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity.” This line was uttered in the first