I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff…
[The Economist, 06 April 2010]
A comeback for straw houses
Who is the Legendary Fesh?
[New York Magazine, 26 March 2010]
He’s the star of the most uplifting story of the day
Brotherly Love
[Out, February 2010]
BONUS: See the man himself
The Return of the Dollar Pizza Slice
[New York Magazine, 18 January 2010]
Bucking trends
Play: S100 Batting Helmet
[I.D., November/December 2009]
99 mph problems, but a bean ain't one
Emotional Rescue
[Out, April 2010]
A cure for Broadway's ills?
The Black Athletes Who Don't Play Basketball
[The Awl, 11 March 2010]
The Tiger Woods of everything
The Bromosexuals
[New York Observer, 9 March 2010]
Dudes seeking dudes
How To: Hurl A Hundo
[ESPN The Magazine, 22 February 2010]
Skee shooting
BONUS: See The Video
Meet Joshua Washington, the Youngest Coach in College Hoops
[New York Magazine, 25 January 2010]
What were you doing at 25?
A Q&A With New Yankees Center-Fielder Curtis Granderson
[New York Magazine, 22 January 2010]
The Grand scheme of things
Scrappy Scrambler
[New York Magazine, 23 November 2009]
A rocky childhood
The Bangles
[New York Magazine, 16 November 2009]
Twisted aluminum is a girl's best friend
Early Bloomer
[New York Magazine, 2 November 2009]
Mayor Mike's back-up brain
Son of Spike
[New York Magazine, 12 October 2009]
Spike & tyke
Saturday Night Light
[New York Magazine, 5 October 2009]
Lombardi redux
A Treehouse in Peru
[National Geographic Traveler, 2 October 2009]
Jungle butlers, seriously
We Lost Our Lacrosse Team. Yes, We Had One.
[New York Magazine, 22 September 2009]
Lax fandom
New York Comedy Incubator Finally Comes to… New York
[New York Magazine, 14 September 2009]
Get that boom-boom groove
I Watched 52 Hours of Non-Stop Improv
[The Wall Street Journal, 17 August 2009]
Always be Del Closing
A Veteran TV Soap Opera Executive on Why “Guiding Light”
Burned Out After 72 Years
[The Wall Street Journal, 14 August 2009]
Soap bubble bursts
The New Twilight Barbie: She Digs Vampires
[The Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2009]
Blood red is just dark pink
The “G.I. Joe” Parody’s Blue-Chip Cast: Julianne Moore and Billy Crudup
[The Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2009]
Pwning is half the battle
BONUS: See The Video
Comic Dave Hill Builds a Career, One Web Video at a Time
[The Wall Street Journal, 2 August 2009]
The funniest nobody
Indie Baseball: Old Brooklyn Meets New Brooklyn
[The Wall Street Journal, 31 July 2009]
Giving hipsters a sporting chance
BONUS: See The Video
Dustin McLean, Literal Video Mastermind, on Writing, Legal Woes and his Go-To Karaoke Song
[The Wall Street Journal, 28 July 2009]
Literally mind-blowing
BONUS: See The Video
Pilot Alcoholism-Treatment Program Targets Gays
[New York Magazine, 20 July 2009]
The gay drunk's dilemma
Spending Glee
[ESPN The Magazine, 13 July 2009]
Uncle Sam bets on a new sport
The Supreme Court and New York: A Brief History
[New York Magazine, 26 May 2009]
From SoBro to SCOTUS
Arrivals
[New York Magazine, 20 April 2009]
The Prince of Queens
[New York Magazine, 20 April 2009]
How 24-year-old Eric Ulrich became the first Republican elected to the 32nd Council District since 2001
BONUS: Raw Transcript
Are You Taking Your Medicine?
[The Economist, 15 April 2009]
A spoonful of cellphone helps the medicine go down
International Pastime
[ESPN The Magazine, 23 March 2009]
Is South Africa baseball's new Dominican Republic?
Online Recruiting Industry Helps Fulfill Dreams
[New York Times, 1 March 2009]
Web wishes for the new Rudys
The New Office Saboteurs
[Details, January/February 2009]
Lucky bastards
The Year In Science
[Discover, January 2009]
Trial & Error
[Out, December 2008/January 2009]
The court martial of Captain Taylor
The Year In Ideas
[The New York Times Magazine, 14 December 2008]
Revenge Porn
[Details, November 2008]
Kissing & Telling
Bowling For Dollars
[ESPN The Magazine, 6 October 2008]
Can new twists on an old game start a cricket craze here?
A Halfway Point Where People Tend to Stay
[New York Times, 5 October 2008]
Living in Middle Village, Queens
BONUS: Artisanal outer-borough cartography!
Beyond Carbon: Scientists Worry About Nitrogen’s Effects
[New York Times, 2 September 2008]
Taking environmentalism to the Nth degree
California High School's Offensive Scheme Adds Randomness to Football
[Scientific American, 2 September 2008]
Math makes jocks more better
BONUS: See the Slideshow
DOUBLE BONUS: One of the year's best ideas
The Birth-Control Extremists
[Details, August 2008]
The men of Never-Never Land
Mistitletown, USA
[ESPN The Magazine, 30 June 2008]
No mention of my hometown: Apex, NC, "The Peak of Good Living"
The Birth of Slick
[ESPN The Magazine, 30 June 2008]
Blood, sweat & olive oil
BONUS: PDF of the photo essay
DOUBLE BONUS: Video shot by yours truly
TRIPLE BONUS: Extra pictures
The Builders
[New York Magazine, 16 June 2008]
The 16 people who’ve already died this year in the building of a new New York
Son of Speak-Easy
[New York Times, 25 May 2008]
Dockside dawdling
When The Games Stop, Dykstra Puts It in Print
[Play, 24 April 2008]
Fashion gabbing with Lenny “Nails” Dykstra
Our Inflationary Snack Times
[New York Magazine, 31 March 2008]
Wheat, dairy, meat: It’s all getting more expensive. Why a bagel costs more.
A Shot of Goji, Please
[New York Times, 30 March 2008]
A place for Captain Planet to get drunk
A Crash Course in Online Gossip
[New York Times, 16 March 2008]
Gossip Girl goes to college
BONUS: Two days later, the New Jersey attorney general gets involved
They Might Be Jocks
[ESPN The Magazine, 10 March 2008]
The most extreme interview in the history of everything
Building Organs Even the Prudish Can Handle
[New York Times, 12 February 2008]
Dr. Ruth meets MacGyver
New York Fan No. 1
[Play, 7 February 2008]
Spike Lee tells it like it is on Super Bowl XLII
Totally Dramatic Dining
[Forbes Traveler, 1 February 2008]
Indulgent decor for gluttons
BONUS: See the slideshow
The Gawker Incident
[2 January 2008]
My first-ever staff writer job, which I quit after one day
The Year In Science
[Discover, January 2008]
Tennis Rackets
[ESPN The Magazine, 31 December 2007]
Tennis according to John McEnroe, who thinks it's ruled by the Russian mob
The Year In Ideas
[The New York Times Magazine, 9 December 2007]
Green Thumbs for Silver Spoons
[New York Magazine, 3 December 2007]
Better learning through private-school agriculture
Fighting Words
[ESPN The Magazine, 3 December 2007]
A Canadian clash of the Titans, all rights reserved
Slicing Up The Moon
[Wired, December 2007]
All Your Moonbase Are Belong To Us
BONUS: A reader writes a song
America's Hottest Clubs
[Forbes Traveler, 28 November 2007]
Which kind of exclusivity is right for you?
BONUS: See the slideshow
Swing Tones
[ESPN The Magazine, 22 October 2007]
The sound of Tiger Woods' success
Smash Mouth
[ESPN The Magazine, 24 September 2007]
The strange-but-true life of a "thug table tennis champ"
Steampunk
[August 2007]
Remembering yesterday's tomorrows
10 of America’s Greenest Hotels
[Forbes Traveler, 20 March 2007]
White gloves on green thumbs
BONUS: See the slideshow
Black Woodstock
[Smithsonian, February 2007]
The other side of Woodstock
The Year In Science
[Discover, January 2007]
The Year In Ideas
[The New York Times Magazine, 10 December 2006]
The 10 Best Bachelor Weekends
[Forbes Traveler, 27 November 2006]
Your inner frat boy needs to chill
BONUS: See the slideshow
Moral Fiber
[Seed, 22 September 2006]
Environmental consciousness and fashion consciousness are not mutually exclusive
What If 9/11 Never Happened?
[New York Magazine, 21 August 2006]
Making Sense of Terrorism
[APS Observer, August 2006]
Is terrorism a mental problem?
Presidential Symposium: The Medium Is Still the Message
[APS Observer, August 2006]
Tom Wolfe & Co. on why scientists are dullards
BOR-ING!
[Out, 14 August 2006]
Gay college students suck (and not in the good way)
Life After Earth: Imagining Survival Beyond This Terra Firma
[New York Times, 1 August 2006]
World War IX, pineapples, Scandinavian prime ministers, Adam & Eve, President Bush, Stephen Hawking, Buzz Aldrin, the Bronx Zoo, and the 1918 flu epidemic. In that order
BONUS: See the Norwegian Seed Vault
If It Walks Like a Duck...
[Seed , 28 July 2006]
How describing a new species by referencing its closest relative often results in misinformation... and hilarity
What if Black Holes Didn't Exist?
[Seed , 21 July 2006]
How an alternate theory of the universe exposes the 'war of words' that underlies modern cosmology
Will 2006 Bring More Hurricane Horror?
[Discover, July 2006]
The extended hurricane forecast – for 2036
What Turks Are Watching
[Slate, 13 June 2006]
Anti-American culture, starring Billy Zane
Ready (or Not) for Its Close-Up
[New York Times, 23 April 2006]
On its 75th anniversary, a look at pop culture references to the Empire State Building
Are You Raping Your Wife In Your Sleep?
[Details, April 2006]
Your partner says you pinned her down and had your way with her. But you don’t even remember being awake, let alone having sex. The mysterious dilemma of the sexsomniac.
BONUS: Dan Abrams attacks!
DOUBLE BONUS: Six months later, scientists catch up to me
A Crime Against Springtime
[New York Times,
19 March 2006]
Yes, there really is a crime called “arborcide”
Gordon Gekko, Meet the Kids
[New York Times, 12 March 2006]
Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe learn what strollers are
Lazy Days at the Lost and Found
[New York Times,
26 February 2006
]
New York’s subway riders are losers
Bleak House
[New York Times,
19 February 2006]
Murder, misery and mah-jongg for Chinatown's illegal immigrants
Mott Street Blues
[New York Times,
22 January 2006]
How much longer can Chinese folks afford to live in Chinatown?
BONUS: Nine months later, the NYT remix
More Than a Little Night Music
[New York Times,
15 January 2006]
Sound and fury in Manhattan’s de facto Bar District
Underground, The Nyah Nyah Factor
[New York Times,
15 January 2006
]
If you can hear me now, I’m better than you
A Dating Service Gives a Nod To Jewish Gays
[New York Times,
8 January 2006
]
When two gay triangles like each other a whole lot, they make a Star of David
Dip Is Not Hip, City Slickers Tell Urban Cowboys
[New York Times,
8 January 2006]
Good ol’ boys, never meaning no harm
The Year In Science
[Discover, January 2006]
Williamsbored?
[New York Times,
25 December 2005]
A hipster hub grows in Brooklyn
The $12.50 Movie Takes a Brief Bow
[New York Times, 25 December 2005]
A movie musical hits a sour note
Where It's Really The Last Picture Show
[New York Times, 11 December 2005]
Movies move out of Queens
Eyes Only for Each Other, At Least for the Next Three Minutes
[New York Times, 11 December 2005]
It’s not staring. It’s gazing
For Many Reasons, Tracks Turn Deadly
[New York Times, 4 December 2005]
Leidschnudel Dreispul meets modern mortality
Biosphere 2: On the Block
[Discover, December 2005]
Bad news for Pauly Shore
A Can-Do Little Web Site, On the Hunt for Homegrown Stars
[New York Times,
27 November 2005]
What Andy Samberg, Jack Black and Sarah Silverman do in their free time
The Parking-Spot Whisperer
[New York Magazine, 14 November 2005]
One man knows the tricks behinds every parking spot in Manhattan
Thread Counts, Yo
[New York Times, 13 November 2005]
New Yorkers think they are tough. They are not
Post-Its for Passers-By
[New York Times, 13 November 2005]
A new use for cell phones
When a Bridge Divides
[New York Times, 6 November 2005]
Racism in the name of Dave Matthews?
BONUS: It’s not easy being white!
For Tourists Who Stray, Some Help From on High
[New York Times,
23 October
2005]
Two Brits find a double-decker tourism bus in the palm of their hands
2BR, but Whose?
[New York Times,
16 October
2005]
$158 a month for a two-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side
BONUS: Two weeks later, The New York Times remix
English Only, Por Favor
[New York Times, 9 October 2005]
Oy, Dios mio!
The Band Just Wants to Have Fun
[New York Times,
25 September
2005]
As with most birthday parties for 1-year-olds, the guest of honor didn’t really know what was going on
Color War
[New York Times, 18 September 2005]
What’s black and white and…actually, nothing. Nothing is black and white anymore.
A Race Lost, But a Bit of Lace Reveals A Latin Future
[New York Times, 18 September 2005]
City council fundraisers need more erotic dancers and booze
Oh, Say Can You Sing? An Anthem of Anthems
[New York Times, 11 September 2005]
A song for Kofi Annan
For a Host of Reasons, Their Hearts Seem to Be Hillary's
[New York Times, 11 September 2005]
Hillary Clinton’s Chinese fireworks
Dentists Prepare to Be on Front Line of Civil Defense
[New York Times,
2 August
2005]
Counterterrorist dentists learn to brush and floss, then duck and cover
Far From the Flash of Chelsea, a Gay Pub with a Local Feel
[New York Times,
31 July
2005]
The loneliest gay bar in Manhattan
No Cash for Nobu? Try All-You-Can-Eat Sushi
[New York Times, 31 July 2005]
$20 buys a belly full of luxury
New York Incognito
[New York Times, 24 July 2005]
Hollywood thinks Staten Island is perfect, for now
Enough
[801 Magazine, May 2005]
Unrequited love doesn't have to be unfulfilling.
This is your brain on fun
[Playboy, May 2005]
At Harvard, confetti rations are up!
Sud Brothers
[Playboy, March 2005]
Beer & frat boys. Together at last.
Wingwomen For Sale
[Playboy, December 2004]
Is She Really Going Out With You? No, Not Really
Read No Evil
[Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2004]
Your very own decoder for family-friendly journalese
The Out College Guide
[Out, September, 2004 & 2005]
What U.S. News & World Report would say over cocktails at a circuit party
BONUS: The 2004 original (PDF)
DOUBLE BONUS: The 2005 encore (PDF)
TRIPLE BONUS: The Atlantic Monthly weighs in
Whackademics
[Playboy, October 2004]
The sound of one hand clapping
America’s 40 Richest Under 40
[Fortune, 20 September 2004]
Internet billionaires have staying power. But so do P.Diddy and the Olsen twins.
BONUS: Download the PDF
Lust In The Crust
[Playboy, June 2004]
Nothing makes you hornier than a pizza with asparagus and eucalyptus
Women Raping Men
[Details, April 2004]
Rape often isn’t a crime when women do it
BONUS: Bill O’Reilly attacks
Campus Byways
[The Advocate, 9 December 2003]
Gays love hating bisexuals
Sex on Campus
[Playboy, October 2003]
Student bodies
Guess Who’s Groping For Dinner
[Playboy, August 2003]
Blind-dating for real – complete with nightvision goggles
A Growing Force
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 January 2003]
In fight for federal student aid, home-school lobby has powerful friends
At Michigan, Beneficiary of Affirmative Action Is Proud to Defend It
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 December 2002]
Literally, the face of affirmative action at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Give Racists Enough Rope — They'll Hang Themselves
[Africana.com, 12 December 2002]
Does Trent Lott regret Martin Luther King?
Are Federal Grants Taking a Back Seat to Student Loans?
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 November 2002]
Debate over limits on borrowing divides lobbyists and students
BONUS: See the chart
Tens of Thousands of Students Gather in Washington to Oppose War Against Iraq
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 November 2002]
A pre-emptive protest against a pre-emptive war
Vested Interests
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 October 2002]
A college student movement critical of Israel gains steam – and attracts scorn
Amid Protests, Defense Department Steps Up Recruitment at Top Law Schools
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 October 2002]
Harvard & Yale vs. The Pentagon. Guess who wins
$1.4-Billion Deficits Prompts Debate Over Pell Grants
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 October 2002]
A program bleeds a billion dollars and everyone’s hands are red
BONUS: See the chart
Lawmakers and Educators Spar Over College Costs and Federal Student Aid
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 October 2002]
The House of Representatives talks a lot
The Men In The Mirror
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 September 2002]
More male students report body-image and eating problems
California Governor Signs Law to Increase Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research in the State
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 September 2002]
Governor Davis gets help from Superman
Resolution Affirming Academic Freedom Fails to Win Approval of U. of North Carolina Board
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 August 2002]
A college without the backbone to defend academia
Prominent Physicist, Accused of Fraud, Is Fired From Lawrence Berkeley National lab
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 July 2002]
Bay Area papers can't find a reclusive scientist. Guess who can
Ending Class Early in Tennessee
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 July 2002]
Public colleges become ghost towns amid a state-government shutdown
Swimming in Modesty
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 July 2002]
Water-polo players are hot. Especially at Stanford
BONUS: See the team
In Debate Over Welfare Reform, Work Trumps Education
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 June 2002]
Congressional Republicans might make it harder for welfare recipients to go to college
White House Proposes Scholarships for Cuban Students
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 May 2002]
George W. Bush tries defeating Fidel Castro. He tries real hard
The Color of Vanity
[Africana.com, 7 May 2002]
A white 28-year-old Internet tycoon from London becomes the world’s first ‘afronaut’
Poetry In Motion
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 April 2002]
Behold the limerick as a lede!
On the Edge of Forever
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 April 2002]
A time machine gets proposed in Connecticut
States Split on Asking Divorced Parents to Pay for Children's Tuition
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 April 2002]
Mommy and Daddy share custody of their kids'. But their bills too?
BONUS: See the chart
House Subcommittee Demands That U.S. Education Secretary Move Beyond Rhetoric
[The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11 April 2002]
Nancy Pelosi asks Rod Paige to do his best Jesus impression
Special Feature: Random Interviews
Patrick J. Howell, sophomore, Kenyon College
[Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 April 2002]
Angelica N. Rosas, freshman, Texas Christian U.
[Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 May 2002]
T. Ty Trujillo, 2002 graduate, U. of Arizona
[Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 May 2002]
Tucker J. Perry, Senior, U. of Wyoming
[Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 July 2002]
Mona S. Concepcion, South Seattle Community College
[Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 August 2002]
Inside out: a gay perspective
[Technician, 10 January 2001]
