Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
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Falling in Love with Chicago at Night: An Interview with Jessica Hopper
In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Shelved: The Sound of Big Star’s Self-Destruction
As the band dissolved, they managed to capture their destruction in some dark, powerful music.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Sports, Story
Almost Undefeated: The Forgotten Football Upset of 1976
How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.
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Revisiting the History of the Oakland Raiders Courtesy of Hunter S. Thompson
The Oakland Raiders are moving to Las Vegas, so let’s remember when Hunter S. Thompson tried to embed with the NFL’s strangest team.
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The Horse Was a Lie (The Horse Is Here With Us Now)
In Mario Chard’s “Land of Fire,” was it the truth or a lie that killed the migrants in the desert? And what if that’s the wrong question? What if we say it was a horse?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
The Relentless Relevance of ‘9 to 5’
An recent interview with Patricia Resnick, author of the screenplay for the 1980 film “9 to 5,” on how little had really changed for women by 2015.
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John Oliver on the Media’s Struggle to Confront Disinformation
“It’s very dangerous to keep the old campaign architecture around with this presidency.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story, Unapologetic Women
Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre
Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
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We’re Not Ready for Mars
Elon Musk can’t wait to send humans to the Moon and Mars. But before we land ourselves on other worlds, we need to remember how we’ve treated our own.
