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“There are repercussions for the choices you make,” said Sam Houser, cofounder and president of Rockstar Games. It was October 2002, and I had been granted a rare interview with the gang
Charlie. It all started with Charlie. As in Chester Charlie Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park. His band’s infectious mashup of rap and rock had made it the most high-profile act in
The world’s most unlikely genius club meets in a sprawling adobe retreat amid the piñon scrub and juniper trees in the hills above Santa Fe. The lean physicist in baggy shorts and
On the morning of June 12, 1990, Chris McKinstry went looking for a gun. At 11 am, he walked into Nick’s Sport Shop on a busy street in downtown Toronto and approached
You arrive at a small town by a large lake. Down a road, there is a yellow Victorian house with an American flag. There are revelers here. They stand on the front
You never know how far you can go until you’ve left everything behind. And as Eric Drew waited alone in the cold rain on a dock of the Seattle waterfront, he had
It’s late night on March 15 at the Electric Lotus, a hip Indian bar and restaurant in Hollywood, when the secret meeting begins. Five scraggly young men and a Goth girl with
Do you want to be the commander or the engineer? It’s exactly the kind of question you’d expect to hear from Richard Garriott, the 47-year-old father of massively multiplayer online gaming. His
Even among the roughest schools in the country, West Philadelphia High School stands out. Situated among boarded-up abandoned buildings and graffiti-covered crack houses, the school has had dozens of arson fires. A
Blake Peebles flops onto his bed in his royal-blue bedroom at 2 A.M., as his raven-haired mom, Hunter, comes to his door. “Can I dim the light for you, honey?” she asks
