The Chicago Sun-Times has a great profile of Abigail B. Titcomb, a beer-brewing unicorn, according to Three Floyds Brewery‘s head brewer Chris Boggess. On a recent workday, the art school dropout and longtime bartender cases the joint in less than fashionable brown rubber boots. Her black T-shirt is splattered with mashed grain. Her flowing blond [...]
Tennessee’s Allan Benton makes, what is regarded as, the most delicious and salivating-worthy bacon and country ham at his family farm. Cured is a short documentary by Joe York digging into Benton’s old-school philosophy of making his renowned pork products. Related: Another great mini-doc | Benton was interviewed by Esquire in 2009 | Profile by [...]
Trip City‘s Seth Kushner traveled to Chicago’s Oak Park to convince cartoonist Chris Ware to show the inside of his house. Honestly, this is exactly what I would imagine Ware’s house to look like, based only on an admiration for his work. Don’t forget to check out the GRAPHIC NYC profile of Chris Ware by Christopher Irving. [...]
Do you have ten minutes to spare? I certainly hope so, because I’m imploring you to watch this incredible piece The Wall Street Journal produced on Iraq War Veteran Ian Welch, who was diagnosed with PTSD and traumatic brain injury after his convoy was attacked. The video was filmed by Brandon Thibodeaux. It’s an intimate [...]
Oddly, Esquire and GQ both published feature pieces on the suicide of Terry Thompson and the exotic animal zoo crisis in Zanesville, OH. This might have been one of the craziest news stories in 2011, but got overlooked because, you know, 2011 was a crazy year for news.
“There’s a common explanation that profound sadness leads to someone’s becoming a comedian, but I’m not sure that’s a proven equation in my case … I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. … She taught me to be grateful for [...]
Here’s an excellent hour-long BBC documentary about Steve Jobs, featuring interviews with Woz, Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee, John Sculley and many more. [via kottke]
The NYT has published a three-part series on the life of late hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard, who died earlier this year at age 28 of a drug and alcohol overdose. Part 1: A Boy Learns to Brawl; Part 2: Blood on the Ice; Part 3: A Brain ‘Going Bad.’ Tough read, but interesting for anyone fascinated by hockey or the downside of [...]
Lynn Zwerling is a 67-year-old retired car salesman. She also teaches knitting to prisoners. Her first thought was to bring knitting to a men’s prison, but she was turned down repeatedly. Wardens assumed the men wouldn’t be interested in a traditionally feminine hobby and worried about freely handing out knitting needles to prisoners who had [...]
The Awl has a profile of the 25-year-old dude behind the website, Is Anyone Up?, which basically published nude photos of people occasionally without their knowledge. Moore said he generally spends 12 hours a day, five days a week uploading posts to his site. There are different varieties of posts. One category is “band whores,” [...]
