American Pie
On a decade-old family ritual, in which a Chinese woman and her visiting Chinese-American granddaughter make a pilgrimage to Pizza Hut to share a Hawaiian pizza.
The Lost Civilization of California Wine
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.
To Be Clean
A tender relationship with a fellow exotic dancer shows Natassja Schiel how to love her sister, a recovering addict.
Who’s Killing Buck Birdsong’s Cows?
Someone poisoned eighteen of the Birdsong family’s calves in the past four years by feeding them a mysterious grain. But who? And why? Texas Monthly writer-at-large Leif Reigstad digs into a confounding true-crime cold case with no leads, no motive, no patterns, and no suspects.
Semi-Fluid States: The Rigid Line of Straightness
In the fourth installment of her series on #Dating_While_Woke, Minda Honey interrogates her sexuality and questions the future of straight-by-default.
Sex, Steroids, and Arnold: The Story of the Gym that Shaped America
A sprawling oral history of Gold’s Gym recounts bodybuilding’s transformation from a small, niche scene to a mainstream cultural phenomenon (thanks, in no small part, to one entrepreneurial Austrian immigrant).
Raphael Saadiq Interviewed by Elise R. Peterson
Musician Raphael Saadiq talks about soul music and his own career’s longevity.
What Happened at Camp Lejeune
Living next to North Carolina Naval Base Camp Lejeune, Lori Lou Freshwater grew up drinking and bathing in water contaminated at levels 240 to 3400 times the safety standard. Now a Superfund site and a candidate for “the worst water contamination case in U.S. history,” the area’s carcinogens caused her mother to lose two sons, one born with an open spine, the other with no cranium, and to develop two kinds of leukemia. As a stopover base for military personnel, up to a million others could be affected.
Why Doesn’t Boston Give New Edition Their Due?
G. Valentino Ball wonders whether Bostonians understand the true impact of New Edition, the boy band formed in late 70’s Roxbury that became the prototype for Boyz II Men, New Kids on the Block, the Backstreet Boys, and NSYNC.
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.
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