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Whatever Happened to MTV's "Buzzkill"?

Not long ago, MTV made an unusual appeal: It asked for help finding information about one of its own shows. The show was "Buzzkill," a hidden-camera program that ran in 1996. The plea came from MTV's…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5823 words)

When Food Attacks: A Selective History of Literature's Most Alarming Feasts

Paul Newman’s egg-gorging feat in Cool Hand Luke certainly inspires wonder (along with a tinge of disgust). And yet each time I watch the film, I struggle with a nagging question raised by…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2885 words)

Spoilers, Screenerbrags and Squabbles: How Film Critics Use Twitter

Venn diagram review of "LA RELIGIEUSE" and "VIC+FLO ONT VU UN OURS" #Berlinale twitter.com/szacharek/stat… — Stephanie Zacharek (@szacharek) February 10, 2013 This year, the Tribeca…
AUTHOR:Jane Hu
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4081 words)

This Is A Longreads On The Internet: The Inroads Of Slow Art In A Fast Culture

The British documentary 56 Up, the latest installment of the renowned 50-year-long Up Series, had its stateside theatrical premiere earlier this year. The Up Series has followed the lives of the same…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2836 words)

How To Give Birth To A Rabbit

Mary Toft was 23 when she gave birth to her first rabbit. Other rabbits—six, seven, eight of them—followed. It was 1726. Toft lived in Godalming, a small rural town in Surrey; news of…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3832 words)

Venture Capital's Massive, Terrible Idea For The Future Of College

Can you go to college on your computer? Some say yes, and others respond with a resounding no. But one thing is for sure: there is a boatload of public money to be vacuumed off an overcrowded,…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4582 words)

We Must Build An Enormous McWorld In Times Square, A Xanadu Representing A McDonald's From Every Nation

Artists' Rendering. The first time I wrote a letter to the president of McDonald's it was about breakfast. I'm not a huge fan of most of the lunch and dinner options at McDonald's but I love Sausage…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2412 words)

What Became Of San Diego's Newspapers

The dystopian author Mike Davis once wrote that San Diego—the city where I live, 100 condo-packed miles south of Los Angeles—is "arguably the nation's capital of white collar crime." In…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3036 words)

Tupac Lane Welcomes You: The Street Names Of Las Vegas

When Tupac was riddled with bullets just off the Las Vegas Strip in 1996, yet another city was added to the long list of those that have claims on him: Baltimore, Oakland, New York, Los Angeles,…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2990 words)
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