On June 29, 2014, at 8:02 p.m. ET, a user named NooYawkCity made the first of what would come to be many posts to a popular martial-arts forum on reddit.com. It was titled “58 year old white belt”: I’ve been training about a year, and only recently gotten solidly hooked. …
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On Monday, Nov. 29, lawyers will begin opening arguments for the much-anticipated trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the 59-year-old former girlfriend and alleged procurer for Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced billionaire who died by suicide in prison in 2019 after being arrested on multiple sex-trafficking charges. Maxwell is charged with six counts …
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Last year, Phoebe Bridgers said the ultra-popular true crime podcast My Favorite Murder was an influence for her latest album, Punisher. “My Favorite Murder feels like you’re listening to two friends talk about something they’re morbidly fascinated with,” she told Pitchfork.Bridgers described being drawn to the podcast’s emphasis on social …
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I’m pretty much your standard Brooklyn millennial lefty mom. I buy my son dolls. I serve him outrageously overpriced plant-based chicken fingers. I don’t allow him to watch Paw Patrol,though that has less to do with how the show glorifies the cop industrial complex and more to do with the …
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Back in 2002, when I was reporting on Jeffrey Epstein’s finances for Vanity Fair magazine, he was not a household name. During that time, I paid a visit to the Federal Medical Center, Devens in Devens, Massachusetts, to meet with an inmate, one Steven Hoffenberg. We sat in a little …
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From the moment she took the stand in what was one of the first highly publicized trials in American history, Lizzie Borden has been an object of fascination. Now, her former home — where her father, Andrew, and step-mother, Abby, were murdered in 1892 — is up for sale, along …
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Between the ongoing pandemic and the election, chances are you’ve missed out lately on some excellent offerings from podcast world. Luckily, it isn’t too late to binge some of the best new series and seasons of the fall, and even a few from the summer that might’ve slipped through the …
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In his excellent biography of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, Philip Gefter notes how the rise of the gay rights movement in the early 1970s occurred at the same time as the growing interest in photography as an equal among the arts. Once he was turned on to photography …
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In every cultural figure or moment’s lifespan, there comes a point where they are subject to what can be summarized as the “You’re Wrong About” treatment, or the concept that even our most deeply held beliefs and cherished orthodoxies are ripe for reappraisal. (There’s even an eponymous podcast devoted to …
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This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of the 20th anniversary of Almost Famous. Four minutes into the new Almost Famous podcast, Kate Hudson describes a discussion she recently had with her therapist. “‘I’m feeling like I’m 40 and I just wanna…’ And my therapist goes, ‘You wanna get …
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