ARTICLES
On the evening of April 3, 2013, a battered blue pickup truck slowly crossed a bridge from International Falls, Minnesota, to the border station at Fort Frances, Ontario. The family inside —
One morning in June 2012, Charles Baird, a 40-year-old former contracts writer at British Petroleum in Anchorage, chartered a boat for the two-hour ride to the island of Latouche in the Gulf
At 11 a.m. on January 21st, Christopher Poole posted a note online saying he was retiring as the administrator of 4chan, the notorious website he had founded as a high school student
Early one morning in Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Willis Junior gently lifted his girlfriend’s daughter, Mai Linn, from her sleep. Willis, a burly 39-year-old with close cropped gray hair and bright blue eyes,
“Are you ready for your sit down?” asks the guy with the handlebar eyebrow piercing as he ushers me into an abandoned loft in New York. Inside a room covered with posters
“How are the fingers?” coder Jim Dosé asks artist Kenneth Scott, as they stand in the kitchen of id Software’s Mesquite, Texas, headquarters. “Shattered,” Scott replies wearily, waving a splint – the
“HEY, GRANDMA, YOU GOT A TOWEL? I NEED TO BREAK GLASS.” IT’S a humid afternoon outside a modest home in Gibsonton, Florida, carny capital of the nation, and the world’s youngest torture
The moment he boots up case file 371, the detective gets that twisted feeling in his gut. Ed Lake – blue button-down shirt, gray hair, hangdog jowls – studies the evidence alone
“Camilo! Hey man, come on,” slurs a drunken surgeon, “I want to show you some hot chick.” It’s happy hour at a hip outdoor bar in Detroit, and Camilo Pardo, the auto
The most dangerous man in music is ready to rock. It’s Saturday night in San Francisco as Justin Frankel, gangly and bed-headed, ambles through the warehouse garage he aptly calls his “playground.”
