Music: It's in your head, changing your brain - CNN.com

Bassist Victor Wooten says you don't need to start with the rules of music in order to play an instrument. (CNN) -- Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as "Do Re…
PUBLISHED: May 26, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2172 words)

Los Angeles L.A. Woman Was the Doors' Bluesy Masterpiece, and Jim Morrison's Kiss-Off to L.A.

By Jeff Weiss published: January 19, 2012 Photo by Paul Ferrara/copyright DMC PHOTO COURTESY OF ELEKTRA RECORDS Click here for "L.A. Woman: Track List,"
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3156 words)

Tar Sands Showdown in the Nebraska Sandhills

At a heated hearing in the heart of cornhusker country, one cowboy poet gives local outrage an eloquent voice It wasnt yet 3:30 p.m., and already there were heated words at the entrance to…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3570 words)

The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934

(Fiction) Five days of trading the field glasses and taking turns crawling back into the trees to smoke out of sight. Five days on surveillance, waiting to see if by some chance Carson might return to his uncle’s farm. Five days of listening to the young agent, named Barnes, as he recited verbatim from the file: Carson has a propensity to fire warning shots; it has been speculated that Carson’s limited vision in his left eye causes his shots to carry to the right of his intended target; impulse control somewhat limited. Five days of listening to Barnes recount the pattern of heists that began down the Texas Panhandle and proceeded north all the way up to Wisconsin, then back down to Kansas, until the trail tangled up in the fumbling ineptitude of the Bureau.
PUBLISHED: Oct. 25, 2010
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3235 words)

Welcome to the Far Eastern Conference

On his first morning in China, former NBA point guard Stephon Marbury went to the lobby of his hotel to attend what his…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1247 words)
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