Why are some of California’s greatest red wines collecting dust in a storeroom near Yuba City? It has something to do with the cult that produced them.
Aaron Gilbreath
The Scientist at the Center of a Heated Scientific Feud
When one female scientist’s thirty years of research contradicted the established theory of dinosaur extinction, people started calling her a bitch that should be burned at the stake.
The Nastiest Feud in Science
Do you think a giant asteroid caused the earth’s most recent mass extinction? Princeton paleontologist Gerta Keller has a competing theory, and her decades of research have earned her so much ire in the scientific community that she keeps a list of insults others have thrown at her.
It Was the Last Night at Low End Theory, and Tyler, the Creator, Tokimonsta and More Made Sure This Wasn’t a Night of Mourning
You might not have heard of it, but Low End Theory is famous to fans of underground hip-hop and electronic music. The club night’s performers, DJ Nobody, Thundercat, Nosaj Thing, Flying Lotus and Tokimonsta, have shaped music far beyond LA’s beat scene, attracting the attention of performers like Kendrick Lamar and Thom Yorke. After twelve […]
Is Compassion Fatigue Inevitable In an Age of 24-Hour News?
The information age has exacted a high emotional cost, but lately, as one horror piles on another, things have become especially taxing.
5 Questions for Kristi Coulter About Writing, Humor, and Getting Sober
“If I couldn’t find humor in sobriety, I probably wouldn’t make it.”
Appropriation in the Land of Enchantment
In New Mexico, cultural appropriation by newcomers is fueling Indigenous activism over colonialism and property rights.
A New Citizen Leaves a Lost America
Journalist Rebecca Mead explains why she first left England for the United States, and why she’s now moving back to a country that isn’t necessarily home.
Manifest Destiny-Lite With Souvenirs: Why Assholes in Turquoise Are Flooding the Southwest
“You can’t waltz into a pueblo and say, ‘I’m here so you can tell me about your religion.’”
A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump’s America
As American values shifted, and the New York that she loved changed, one naturalized citizen found herself changing too, so she and her family decided to return to her native England even though it was no longer home.
