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THE NEW YORKER: Pay Up: "A Debt Collector Struggle to Stay Out of Debt" -- Read my dispatch from Buffalo in the Money Issue of the New Yorker. Click here to read. Stardust: Marcy Braunstein is the biggest Rod Stewart fan of all time; and, recently, Jake made a pilgrimage with her to visit Rod in LA. Read his "LA Postcard." Selling the Beat: The Trackboyz have built a reputation as the two hottest producers in hip-hop. "It was almost like selling drugs," says Mark Williams. "You don't advertise, but the word gets out and people find out what you do. Before long, everybody was buying beats from us." - Text Only A Jolly Green Giant: Profile: Read about Bernie Goetz, the former vigilante who now moonlights as a vegetarian activist. - Text Only
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Iceland's Big Thaw (SUNDAY MAGAZINE): Iceland's Big Thaw: Yes, the country is recovering — by forgetting about banking and rediscovering its essential weirdness. Ever try cod sperm? Read Here. Norse Fantasy (SUNDAY MAGAZINE - Online): Read an essay about my brush with death in a blizzard in Iceland – and how such adventures are best left to the realm of fantasy. Click here to read on the New York Times' website. The Freegan Establishment (SUNDAY MAGAZINE): How a group of Dumpster-diving, currency-scorning, society-rejecting outcasts came to embrace homeownership in Buffalo. Sort of. Read text only or see on the New York Times' website. Emotional Buildup (SUNDAY MAGAZINE): What happens when charity, entertainment, and profit-making merge in a hugely popular TV show? Read text only or see on the New York Times' website. The Day of the Salamander (SUNDAY MAGAZINE): Jake's latest essay tells the story of a small salamander that nearly brought ruin to his family. - Text Only Visionary to the Mainstream (ARTS & LEISURE SECTION): Lee Trink has made a career out of finding white rappers, Christian metal bands, and other unlikely acts and turning them into smash sensations. He just found his next big challenge... - Text Only
THE Hurricane-Proof House: Is it possible to build a hurricane-proof house? Yes. And it's cheap, easily built, and environmentally friendly too. Read my Op-Ed in the WSJ. - Text Only Breaking News: Did you know that one day, not long ago, CNN devoted 37 times more coverage to Britney Spears than to the genocide in The Magical Skyscraper: A developer of Iraqi-descent, named Bashar Issa, has plans to build a skyscraper in
SMITHSONIAN: Family Feud: What happens when two sides of a family -- one Jewish, the other German and gentile -- are feuding over whether they are actually related? Text Only | Link to Website
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: Balls & Blood: First played in the 16th century, revived in 1930, an infernal, no-holds-barred version of soccer known as calcio fiorentino keeps the good citizens of
ESQUIRE: Ian McShane Interview: Read my interview with the actor who made the TV show, Deadwood, famous. Link to Article
GQ: Read This Book: A review of Said Sayrafiezadeh's memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free.
SLATE: Kidney Picking: Human kidneys are some of the rarest commodities in the world; so why are so many of them ending up in the trash? Link to Site | Text Only Penny a Pound: Should the government pay you to lose weight? Link to Website | Text Only
THE NEW REPUBLIC: Jungle Boy: Henry David Thoreau has long been hailed as Hot Town: This is a dispatch from Out for a Buck: A brief report on the state of the gay wedding industry. - Text Only
FORBES: The Price of Fame: Though they would never admit it, some disgruntled movie executives may feel that Heath Ledger failed them by not taking better care of himself. The truth of the matter, however, is that it is the studios that have failed Mr. Ledger. - Text | Forbes Website
OUTSIDE MAGAZINE: Gone and Back: A personal essay on an ill-fated journey to And the Buff Shall Inherit the Earth: Meet the Bible Belt's latest star. In his article, Jake profiles a Christian fitness guru named Ben Lerner who is preaching a new brand of Christianity that stresses piety, fitness, and extremely firm abs. Text Only | Link to Website Without a Barrel: Meet Kirk Jones, the daredevil who went over
A Baghdad Rescue Operation: How one Navy officer whisked Iraqi art out of the country - and into The Rise of the Outsider: Have You Heard This Man? Record stores ignored him. MySpace didn't exist. But Gordon Thomas went viral anyway. Text Only
House of Pain: Meet Christopher Kwiatkowski -- real estate developer by day, champion kickboxer by night. Read Here.
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: School for the Starry-Eyed: Why do teenage brains crave the attention that fame promises? Text Only
LA WEEKLY: The Last of the
Too Hot to Handle (Cover Story): From date rape to racism to gay rights, In Praise of Arrogance (Cover Story): The crop of talented recent graduates coming into today's workforce is widely seen as narcissistic and entitled. And those are their best qualities. - Read on Boston Globe Website
Personal Essay: What's it like to spend Passover floating down the
COMMONWEAL: Personal Essay: A visit to the fortified Jewish settlement of
Weight Problem: Weight-loss surgery has become a gold rush for both hospitals and doctors. Thousands of people undergo the procedure each week. Is it safe? They don't care. For them, anything is better than being so heavy. - Text Only Castaway: Read about the last real frontiers woman in New England, who lives on a lonely island right in the middle of |
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