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The Winners' History of Rock and Roll, Part 3: Bon Jovi

Our success had a lot to do with timing. I guess there was a hole — there was a need by the people for a Bon Jovi. Just a good-time entertainment band, you know? A bridge between Phil Collins…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 21, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3781 words)

Django, the N-Word, and How We Talk About Race in 2013

2013 is going to be incredible, if for no other reason than because this will undoubtedly be the year the cultural discourse shifts from simple discussions of "race" or "racism" to the majestic land…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 3, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2093 words)

Rooked

It happened this spring, in the 2012 Virginia Scholastic and Collegiate Chess Tournament. Both Quentin Moore and his opponent, a rising star on the D.C.-area chess scene named Clark Smiley, came into…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4316 words)

Let It Fly

The kicker stands behind a podium in the Heidelberg Room, on the top floor of the Baton Rouge Hilton, and pauses for a moment while grown men dry their eyes. Mo Isom has just finished telling a story…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7674 words)

The Many Faces of James Harden

To understand and appreciate James Harden, maybe we should begin with the time he was scared to shoot. That would set up a narrative of Harden the Selfless, a team-first, me-last embodiment of…
PUBLISHED: May 29, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4089 words)

ActionFest, the Action Film Festival: Movies + TV: GQ

ActionFests Rocketman aka Dan Schlund, pre-flight An enormous, ungodly whining sound fills the air as a man wearing a tuxe
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LENGTH: 3 minutes (889 words)

Mad for Carolina

It's a fine line, the difference between passionate fan and scary insane person. When you first meet Greg Cauley, you're not sure which one you're getting. Especially when the g
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 3 minutes (937 words)
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Final Cut

My wife and I have two children, and we love them dearly, dearly, the sleep-stealing, bank-account-depleting little trolls. But some days—when the livi
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LENGTH: 3 minutes (874 words)

The Final Comeback of Axl Rose

(I) He is from nowhere. I realize that sounds coyly rhetorical in this day and age, it's even a boast, right? Socioeconomic code for I went to
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LENGTH: 4 minutes (1115 words)
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