Dave Cobb: Wrangling Rough Country Beasts Toward Nashville
March 21, 2016
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The Curious Decline of Paul Mooney
March 21, 2016
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Kiss and Break Up: Inside the Feud Between Lil Wayne and Birman
January 20, 2016
For years, the superstar rapper and his mentor formed one of hip-hop’s most inseparable teams. Then it all went terribly wrong.
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The Oral History of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” Scene in Wayne’s World
December 1, 2015
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The Mostly True Adventures of Standup Comedy’s Legendary Frat House
October 21, 2015
One grand old house overlooking the Sunset Strip played host to a generation of comics — including Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay, and Robin Williams — launching dozens of careers and about as many drug problems. The crash pad of a comedy revolution, remembered, kinda, by the people who survived it.
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Revolutionary on the Run
May 29, 2015
In 2011, at age 23, Ramy Essam, Egypt’s “singer for the revolution” was lionized for helping to overthrow a dictator. Four years later, a brutal military crackdown has all but destroyed the country’s youthful protest movement while its hero bides his time in a faraway country, trying to keep the fight — and himself — alive.
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The Oral History of In Living Color
March 27, 2015
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