Kiss and Break Up: Inside the Feud Between Lil Wayne and Birman
For years, the superstar rapper and his mentor formed one of hip-hop’s most inseparable teams. Then it all went terribly wrong.
The Oral History of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” Scene in Wayne’s World
The Mostly True Adventures of Standup Comedy’s Legendary Frat House
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.
Revolutionary on the Run
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.
The Oral History of In Living Color
Live Through This
Shows like Dual Survival and Naked and Afraid have helped make real-life survival one of the TV’s hottest genres. But when participants get pushed to endure ever more dangerous situations, how far is too far?
Child Abduction story on TV
Here’s a link to me talking about the Bianca Lozano story on Headline News. If I had known I’d be standing–er, slouching– for this segment, I might have thought about what to do with my hands besides shoving them in my pockets as if I was standing around waiting for a bus. But I’m new to this.
The 19-Year Search for Bianca Lozano and the Nightmare of Child Abduction Cases
As if losing a child to kidnapping wasn’t horrifying enough, ineffective law enforcement agencies and predatory private investigators only add to the confusion and pain. Deana Hebert’s long, maddening search for her daughter — and the ex-husband who took her — may be the rule, not the exception.
Men In Blazers: Meet the Suboptimal Stars of America’s First Great Soccer Show
How a ‘Downton Abbey’-obsessed duo went from podcast obscurity to broadcast TV
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