Unearthing the Complete and Total Disaster That Was 'The Chevy Chase Show'

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…
SOURCE:Splitsider
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2387 words)

The Band: Drifting Toward the Last Waltz

Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel of The Band. R. Gates/Getty Images
PUBLISHED: Dec. 16, 1976
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1216 words)

Bloodchild and Other Stories

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Go to Chapter One Section • Go to Book World's Review Bloodchild and Other Stories By Octavia E. Butler Chapter One: Bloodchild My last night…
PUBLISHED: May 12, 1997
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7100 words)

Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms

At exactly 10:53 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, 2011, Joe and Mary Reneau were in the bedroom of their whitewashed and brick-trimmed home, a two-story rambler Mary's dad custom-built 43 years ago.…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2059 words)

How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'

One weekend last October, Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Walt Disney (DIS), sat through all six Star Wars films. He’d seen them before, of course. This time, he took notes. Disney was in…
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3449 words)

Prince Alwaleed And The Curious Case Of Kingdom Holding Stock

Prince Alwaleed (Photo: Ben Baker/Redux) Any reporter who shows an interest in Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia can expect at some point to get a little gift from His Royal Highness. A…
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1036 words)

How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy

Vickie, Alice, Lisa, Debbie, Barbara, Chris, Clair and Cootz boarded the Los Angeles-bound Sunset Limited in Schriever, La., and immediately took residence in the glass-sheathed Sightseer Lounge car.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5006 words)

The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

An inmate sunbathes on the deck of his bungalow on Bastoy. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro The first clue that things are done very differently on Bastoy prison island, which lies a couple of miles off…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2321 words)

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