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Playing with Star Wars Lego bricks made them famous. Then a mysterious crime drove them apart.
On October 4, 2018, a young Frenchman named Louis came home from work to find the window in his front door smashed. A practical-minded 20-year-old with short dark hair, he figured it
The rise of a $2 billion industry, from Hunter S. Thompson to Playgirl centerfolds
It’s a bustling night in Las Vegas, and Sugar Ray Leonard is ready for the main event. In his suite high above the Strip, the legendary boxer, boyish and ebullient at 66,
Once a Pacific Eden, the island nation has become a destination for a highly combustible mix of global wealth and power—as a trio of would-be landowners have found out the hard way.
I. THE SURFERS AND THE BOATMAN Five years ago, Ratu “Jona” Joseva, a 32-year-old Indigenous Fijian boat taximan, and two Aussie lifelong surfing bros, Navrin Fox and Woody Jack, bought an overgrown
Rogers Park, a course built by Black caddies during segregation, is fighting to preserve its past—and future
It’s a bright Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Tampa, Fla., and Lionel Ballard is showing me the future of Rogers Park, one of America’s most historic golf courses. Ballard, a 70-year-old
A Pioneering Gamer Opens Up About Industry Sexism
Stevie Case just wanted to play with the boys. Late one night in the spring of 1997, the 20-year-old pulled up in a U-Haul van at her parents’ house in Olathe, Kansas,
From the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's widow opens up about what the age of free love was really like.
It’s a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. Inside her plant-filled home lined with scientific books on psilocybin and posters of the Grateful Dead, Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia,
When the pandemic untethered millions of workers from their offices, a new species of digital nomad was born. On a sun-dappled island in the middle of the ocean, a group of them is engaged in a novel experiment that might foretell the future of work.
Soon enough, the morning grind will begin again. The congested traffic, the crowded trains, the elevators and escalators whisking workers to their designated boxes. But that’s not how the workday begins here
The terrified father paid the ransom. Then he found his kid where he least expected her. Criminals are staging a devious new kind of kidnapping — and the FBI is stumped.
Last year, at about 11 in the morning on July 29, Richard Mendelstein was working in his home office in Princeton, New Jersey, when his phone rang. The caller ID read “unknown.”
An All-American school cafeteria heist
It seemed like just another picture-perfect morning at East Elementary School, a most desirable public middle school in a most auspicious of towns, New Canaan, Connecticut. Autumn leaves fluttered down on the
I spoke with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy about his new newsletter, Starship Casual, losing his parents, and how his stage persona almost destroyed him. "It turned into things that were killing me," he says.
Captain Tweedy, checking in from the deck of Starship Casual. Jeff Tweedy is a busy man, even during a pandemic. In the last year, the 54-year-old singer and songwriter for Wilco has
