How fertility doctors impregnating their own clients is more common than you might think and on how the law around tracking sperm donors and donations is impotent against the problem.
2017
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Uncategorized
The David Letterman University of Excessive Self-Deprecation
Talking late-night television, retirement, and putting comedy in service of our nation, with the great David Letterman.
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The Cult of ‘Zelda: Majora’s Mask’
How the video game Zelda: Majora’s Mask — the “black sheep” member of the game franchise notable for its apocalyptic storyline as a stark departure from the beloved princess-saving series — became a cult object that spawned a fan-made, horror-based, sinister “creepypasta” storyline called Ben Drowned which has terrifying connections to the story of Katelyn […]
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Saving Chickens, Saving Myself
On seeing and “being seen” — the silent gift of bearing witness to one another and individual suffering as a way of offering comfort and hope.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Name’s Grass. Mr. Grass.
At watching-grass-grow.com, you can watch Alex Komarnitsky’s lawn. In Southwest magazine, Bradford Pearson profiles Komarnitsky and explores his own fascination with a stranger’s front lawn.
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In Conversation: David Letterman
What has one of the architects of late night comedy being doing since he retired? Developing deep thoughts about using comedy to undermine the presidential administration, and confusing people with his long Santa Clause beard, among other things.
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The Fire on Harvard Avenue
How a flawed investigation and junk arson science convicted Angela Garcia of killing her two daughters.
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Prisoners in Hawaii Are Being Sent to Die in Private Prisons in Arizona
Forty-three percent of Hawaii’s state prisoners are currently locked up in the notorious Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona. This is the story of one man, Johnathan, who died in custody just days before his 22nd birthday.
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‘This Land’ Was Our Land: A Eulogy for a Groundbreaking Magazine
“This Land”closes its print edition this month, capping seven years of extraordinary local journalism.
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Leaving Aleppo: ‘A distant star / Exhausts its light on the sleep of the dead.’
Pauls Toutonghi lovingly recalls his grandfather, Philippe Elias Tütünji, a writer, poet, and translator from Aleppo, Syria. Tütünji immigrated to America during World War II and never gave up his dream to achieve success as a poet in his adopted homeland.