Escaping the Recession by Boat
In the midst of the Great Recession and its bleak job prospects, Alex and Nick Kleeman scraped together enough cash to buy a 32-foot sailboat and plunged into the Pacific for the adventure of their lives. So what if they didn’t know how to sail?
The Troll’s Lawyer
Tor Ekeland, unemployed and burned out from his job working at a corporate law firm, decided to defend Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, a Jew-hating hacktivist also known as weev, and challenge a sweeping computer crime law.
The World’s Top Breast-Reconstruction Artist Runs a Tattoo Parlor in Maryland
Meet Vinnie Myers, known as the “Michelangelo of Nipple Tattoos.”
War Over Hollywood Sign Pits Wealthy Residents Against Urinating Tourists
Residents of Los Angeles’ tony Beachwood Canyon neighborhood are battling hordes of GPS-enabled tourists looking to make a pilgrimage to the city’s most popular and unregulated landmark.
The Talking Cure
In Providence, Rhode Island, the mayor hopes getting low-income parents to talk to their very young children more will help boost language skills and close the achievement gap.
Reservation Confirmed: A Reading List About Airbnb
It’s easy to get distracted while reading about Airbnb. First, the listings themselves range from luxurious to quaint, and if you have any sort of upcoming vacation planned … well, let’s say it’s a timesuck.
Food Fight
Chefs in Dallas are unhappy with Leslie Brenner, the restaurant critic for The Dallas Morning News, and her newspaper’s star rating system. So they’ve stop cooperating with her.
‘Chris Harrison Is One of the Smoothest Motherf—ers I’ve Ever Met’
A very funny, thoughtful profile of The Bachelor‘s longtime host, now divorced and pondering the meaning of relationships.
Confessions of a College Athletics Fixer
How one former coach perpetuated a cheating scheme that benefited hundreds of college athletes.
Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory
Larmer visits Maotanchang High School in eastern China’s Anhui province, a “cram school” where 20,000 students train round the clock for the gaokao, the country’s college-entrance exam.
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