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When I heard that GQ editor Mickey Rapkin was writing a book about college a cappella, I was thrilled.
By Nina Shen Rastogi.
Originally published in Slate.com , July 15, 2008
The Rockaway Peninsula's tortured development history enters its latest chapter, with ill-fated spec buildings disintegrating next to successful new housing development, and a rezoning belatedly attempting to instill order.
By Matt Schwarzfeld.
Originally published in CityLimits.org, June 9, 2008
The human brain is complex. Along with performing millions of mundane acts, it composes concertos, issues manifestos and comes up with elegant solutions to equations.
By Robynne Boyd.
Originally published in Scientific American online, February 7, 2008
American voters are not the only ones taking a closer look at the field of contenders for the presidency.
By Charly Wilder.
Originally published in Salon.com, March 7, 2008
Buddhist monks and other Tibetans began protesting in and around Lhasa on March 10, the anniversary of a major uprising against Chinese rule.
By Nina Shen Rastogi.
Originally published in Slate, March 28, 2008
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As a young girl growing up on a California vineyard, I passed the long summers outdoors, and when I wasn't catching lizards or squeezing grapes into fizzy water in order to make "wine spritzers", I was foraging.
By Justine Sterling.
Originally published in Saveur, April, 2008
Zachary Westcott knows that he should get tested for HIV. As a 27-year-old sex worker who serves both women and men, he is especially at risk. But the lines at clinics are long and the staff can be callous, so he tends to put it off.
By Alex Cotton.
Originally published in Gay City News, April 17, 2008
The kids are moving back home in Brooklyn—because they need to (and they want to!). But what about when they start families of their own? Or when the boyfriend wants to sleep over?
By Benjamin Popper.
Originally published in The New York Observer, March 25, 2008
On a wintry Wednesday afternoon, thousands discovered that New York City Ballet principal dancer Maria Kowroski wears flared purple legwarmers.
By Margaret Fuhrer.
Originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, April, 2008
Public historian Richard Rabinowitz prefers the storytelling of history to lecturing on its particulars.
By Conor Friedersdorf.
Originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, February, 2008
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"The ethnic restaurant is one of the few places where the native and the immigrant interact substantively in our society."
By Matthew Fishbane.
Originally published in The New York Times, January 13, 2007
What does the Modern Love column tell us about contemporary Judaism?
By Eryn Loeb.
Originally published in the Nextbook, November 30, 2007.
Why the concept of justice - not freedom, not democracy - is becoming a potent tool for political reform in the Muslim world
By Shahan Mufti.
Originally published in The Boston Globe, October 28, 2007.
“We’re waiting for the young people to come and take over.”
By Erica Westly.
Originally published in The New York Times, October 28, 2007
After eight years in exile, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's return was greeted with twin bomb blasts late Thursday.
By Shahan Mufti.
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor, October 19, 2007.
A "Colombian idol"-style search transformed a humble farmer into the 21st century version of TV's coffee icon. Meet the man behind the mule.
By Matthew Fishbane.
Originally published in Salon.com, October 16, 2007.
For all its seventh-generation beauty—and the game is gorgeous—Sigma plays like an arcade game, as if its life depends on killing our quarters.
By Ray Huling.
Originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, October 2007.
Jonathan Kozol, author of "Letters to a Young Teacher," talks with Salon about why No Child Left Behind squelches learning and about reading Rilke's sonnets to first graders.
By Matthew Fishbane.
Originally published in Salon.com, August 30, 2007.
After nations carve up the fast-melting region, will there be anything left?
By Erica Westly.
Originally published in Discover, August 30, 2007.
Trapped between frightening civil war memories of their native country and an alien society in nearby Ghana, refugees linger for years in the Buduburam permanent settlement camp.
By Rollo Romig.
Originally published in Worldpress.org, August 21, 2007.
Religious scholar Javed Ahmad Ghamidi has become a popular figure in Pakistan for his strict reading of the Koran -- which, he says, dictates against gender discrimination, terrorist jihad, and other favorites of modern Islamists
By Shahan Mufti.
Originally published in The Boston Globe, July 22, 2007.
The Minor Leagues of Professional Video Gaming
By Ray Huling.
Originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2007.
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I’m standing in Williamsburg’s Black & White Gallery with a portable radio in my hands and a pair of headphones fit snugly in my ears.
By John MacDonald.
Originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2007.
Thai restaurants are a dime a dozen, but 30 years after Pol Pot, Khmer cuisine is still hard to find in the U.S. Why hasn't it become the next big thing?
By Matthew Fishbane.
Originally published in Salon.com, June 26, 2007.
Marlo Donald was kicked off Social Security for kicking someone almost 20 years ago. The bizarre tale of a "fugitive felon."
By Freda Moon.
Originally published in the New Haven Advocate, April 26, 2007.
"Trees are great for a variety of reasons, but how do you explain that to the Office of Management and Budget?"
By David K. Randall.
Originally published in The New York Times, April 18, 2007
One thing Sambath Suen can’t abide is the cold. Until four years ago, Suen lived in Kandal, a Cambodian province that borders on Vietnam.
By Matthew Fishbane.
Originally published in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, December 31, 2006.
Making schools safer is part of push to improve literacy.
By Ruthie Ackerman.
Originally published in The San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2007
In war-torn Afghanistan, Zamarai Kamgar has built the only private airline.
By Megha Bahree.
Originally published in Forbes, February 26, 2007
Two mosques, two sects, face each other across Atlantic Avenue. Given
global tensions, the natural questions arise.
By Shomial Ahmad.
Originally published in The New York Times, January 14, 2007
There's more than magical realism in the literature of this beautiful and still very dangerous country.
By Matthew Fishbane.
Originally published in Salon.com, January 17, 2007.
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Some criminal cases meet with 'problem-solving justice.'
By Freda Moon.
Originally published in City Limits, December 11, 2006.
Walter Sear and his Sear Sound are the last of the analog champions.
By David Marchese.
Originally published in Wax Poetics, Issue 20, December/January 2007.
Author Tom Lutz talks to Sabine Heinlein about 400 years of slacker culture.
By Sabine Heinlein.
Originally published in The Idler, October 2006.
Hip-hop disrespects them. Subway patrons love them. Beatboxers make some serious noise.
By Derek L. John.
Originally published in The Village Voice, December 5, 2006.
Everything you wanted to know about the Kazakh road trip—what was staged, who was an actor, and who was just hapless comedy roadkill.
By David Marchese and Willa Paskin.
Originally published in Salon.com, August 25, 2006.
In its fourth year, the Arab-American Comedy Festival will do anything but bomb.
By Rawan Jabaji.
Originally published in Time Out New York, August 25, 2006.
Has hip-hop's once unstoppable juggernaut finally chugged to a halt?
By David Marchese.
Originally published in Salon.com, August 25, 2006.
Author Jeremy Iversen went undercover as a high school student. The experience taught him about text messaging and steroids -- and the failures of U.S. education policy.
By David Kent Randall.
Originally published Oct. 3, 2006 in Salon.com.
We watched fires burn across the canopies of forests and rumble like demons. “It’s Satan,” said our instructor, “Can you hear him?”
By Jonah Owen Lamb.
Originally published in The Point Reyes Light, June 22, 2006.
Burned and rotting hulks of abandoned vessels jut from the dirty beach into the silted, sluggish water of Coney Island Creek. No one is sure when the two dozen wrecks arrived at this little waterway at Bensonhurst's southern tip. No one even knows their names.
By Jonah Owen Lamb.
Originally published in The New York Times, August 6, 2006.
Activists and supporters sound off on President Bush’s plan to spend $15 billion to fight AIDS—known by the acronym PEPFAR—and its approach to preventing HIV infections worldwide.
By Adam Graham-Silverman.
Originally published in Gay City News, August 17-23, 2006 edition.
We've gone from badasses Lou Reed and James Caan to jackasses Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller. Where are the hip male Jews?
By David Marchese.
Originally published in Salon.com, July 10, 2006.
Supermarkets are not evil giants, but they are caught up in the business of giving you what you want, and figuring out what makes you want something.
By Ruthie Ackerman.
Originally published in the Hartford Courant, June 15, 2006.
One of my more significant childhood experiences took place at a leisurely Sunday barbecue, when an employee of my father’s asked his infant: “What does daddy do at Mr. Heinlein’s company?”
By Sabine Heinlein.
Originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, June 2006.
AIDS activists press world body for tougher action during special session on epidemic
By Adam Graham-Silverman.
Originally published in Gay City News, May 11-17, 2006 edition.
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How the New York Times accidentally covers up the contradictions of Aghanistan with the euphemisms of "freedom."
By Sabine Heinlein.
Originally published in The Revealer, April 24, 2006.
They want to live in the United States, but a gallery competition for foreign-born artists may be asking too much.
By Gergana Koleva.
Originally published in The New York Times, April 23, 2006.
Eighty-three years and three generations make Blatt a New York institution. Sam Blatt immigrated from Russia in 1913, and though a cabinet maker by trade, he knew an opportunity when he saw one.
By Freda Moon.
Originally published in The New York Times, March 19, 2006.
In Greenpoint, the pool at McCarren Park is surrounded by weeds and signs that read 'Danger.' In some eyes, that's the way it should stay.
By Tim Stelloh.
Originally published in The New York Times, April 9, 2006.
Acid-eating Okies keep the reverb and bunny suits, can the chemistry
By David Marchese.
Originally published in The Village Voice, March 30, 2006.
For 72 days Gutiérrez had accompanied the monarchs on their migration, from Montreal to Michoacán, logging 4,375 miles and drawing attention to the numerous threats they face as they travel across North America.
By Meera Subramanian.
Originally published in Audubon, March 2006.
The oral history swirling around an anchor casts a light on the days when the neighborhood was the nexus of wealth and power in Brooklyn, then an independent city.
By David Randall.
Originally published in The New York Times, March 12, 2006.
"In Poland they might have been functioning alcoholics; they had work and a support system. But here bad tendencies increase and the men find themselves on a different social level. In New York, they live like on the moon."
By Sabine Heinlein.
Originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, February 2006.
Rearing back like a raging snake, the woman hisses and writhes on the floor. Another divine match.
By Gergana Koleva.
Originally published in The New York Times.
While a sign is the only material evidence of the store's 76 years in Manhattan, Gimbels is living a new life in that peculiar New York lexicon of things that no longer exist.
By David Randall.
Originally published in The New York Times.
In New York's expensive and competitive housing market, many landlords seeking higher rents have become more aggressive in trying to evict older tenants.
By Janelle Nanos.
Originally published in The New York Times.
The High Line, the West Side railroad that will soon be a park, has a 72-year history as intriguing as its future.
By Meera Subramanian.
Originally published in The New York Times.
Did a struggling white writer of gay erotica become one of multicultural literature’s most celebrated memoirists—by passing himself off as Native American?
By Matthew Fleischer.
Originally published in LA Weekly.
The Strokes upgrade their cute dishevelment but leave a few too many sexy hooks behind
By David Marchese.
Originally published in The Village Voice.
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Unschooling is a radical branch of home-schooling where kids control what and when they learn -- free of teachers, schedules and tests. Unschoolers say it's intellectually empowering. Critics call it irresponsible.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz.
Originally published in Salon.com, October 3, 2005.
Illinois doesn’t directly fund sex ed in schools. But it does provide almost the entire budget of the Glenview-based Project Reality, whose abstinence-only curriculum, offered to schools for free, misleads kids about birth control and STDs.
By Kate Hawley.
Originally published in the Chicago Reader.
A new book argues that children desperately need to be able to play in the woods -- and that our culture's sterile rejection of nature is harming them in body and soul.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz.
Originally published in Salon.com.
News: Assigned to cover the 2004 Democratic primary, Matt Taibbi found there was nothing to cover. So he fell back on his own resources. Oh, and drugs.
By Janelle Nanos.
Originally published in Mother Jones.
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Free Web sites offer up Social Security numbers, divorce agreements,
mortgage papers and more to anyone seeking a peek.
By Aleksandra Todorova.
Originally published in SmartMoney.com
A string of lawsuits and a fierce debate over its digital library project have turned Google into a symbol of cultural imperialism in France. Is it all mere coincidence, or does the land of "liberte, egalite, fraternite" have it in for the company whose mission is so decidedly global?
By Scott Lamb.
Originally published in Der Spiegel magazine.
The United States is betting the future of energy lies in the hard-to-reach Caspian Sea. With the $3.6 billion pipeline about to open it remains to be seen if the investment will show a return.
By Candace Rondeaux.
Originally published in the St. Petersburg Times.
Stretched to the breaking point in Iraq, the U.S. Army desperately needs troops, but finding fresh meat has never been harder. Inside the military’s new recruitment machine.
By Ian Daly.
Originally published in Details.
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An experimental new vaccine will soon make that white powder as mind-altering as air
By Ian Daly.
Originally published in Details.
Someone may have used your Social Security number to obtain credit -- with every intention of keeping up on the payments. Even weirder, you may never find out.
By Aleksandra Todorova.
Originally published in SmartMoney.com.
Cantankerous, proud and devoted to helping immigrants, Father Justin Lucio's singleminded sense of duty led to overblown charges of "scandal"
By Claiborne Smith.
Originally published in The Dallas Observer.
From banker to singer, messenger of peace, and aspiring purveyor of action figures
By Ulysses de la Torre.
Originally published in the East Hampton Star.
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Three in four Czechs languish in institutions before dying, say health-care workers
By Kristina Alda.
Originally published in The Prague Post.
Billionaires for Bush kicks off a season of protest, pranks and party-going
By Rebecca Fox.
Originally published in Clamor.
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