Muhammad Comes to Manhattan
The imbroglio over the ground-zero mosque, like all New York stories, is about the clashing dreams of ordinary folks — and, of course, real estate. #Sept11
Stephen Tobolowsky: The X Factor, Part 2
I said, “The waiting room’s gotten so hard.” Felicia, the head of casting, smiled sympathetically. “The nerves-or the folding chairs?” I laughed. “No. The years. The waiting room has become harder than the audition. I never know whom I’m going to see or what it’ll stir up. I am now carrying three huge memories from my life like giant rocks on my back. And I have brought them in here with me now—to you.”
Mike Penner, Christine Daniels: A Tragic Love Story
The Los Angeles Times sports journalist lived most of his life wanting to be a woman. He discovered too late that he wanted his wife even more
Happily, Evie After
Evie Stevens loved her job on Wall Street, her income, her new apartment, her family and her friends. So she became a pro racer.
The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine
What’s a drug used to deworm livestock — a drug that can obliterate your immune system — doing in your cocaine? Nobody knows.
Cassini Royale
By the time he died, in 2006, designer Oleg Cassini had seduced the top top girls of his day, from Grace Kelly to Marilyn Monroe to Anita Ekberg. But, for all Cassini’s success with women, the battle over his estate, between his daughter Tina and his last (and secret) wife, Marianne Nestor, suggests a chilling calculation behind the dashing image.
Eleven Lives
The oil will have stopped gushing into the Gulf. The shoreline and the estuaries and the beaches will have been scrubbed clean by man and nature. BP and Transocean will have resumed business as usual. But the original wound will never heal. This is the story of what’s been lost.
Thank You for Not Screaming
If everyone on television were like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, television would be a much more civilized place. Really
Bob Dylan, the Beat Generation, and Allen Ginsberg’s America
Penetrating Aether: The Beat Generation and Allen Ginsberg’s America
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