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longreads, 2 days ago to Albuquerque

"Most of the belongings, such as clothing, makeup and blankets, could be replaced in time. But she panicked when she realized that her dentures, acquired after months of dental appointments, were also gone."

For ProPublica, Nicole Santa Cruz reports on how the city of #Albuquerque is discarding the personal property of thousands of #unhoused people: https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homeless-encampments

#Longreads #Journalism #NewMexico #Homelessness #Poverty

longreads, 2 days ago to LongReads

"It’s an album of immense ambition and immense vision, and the artist with his name on the jacket is operating from a place that is not one of expertise, but it’s also not amateurish. It exists in this middle space, one defined by eagerness and seeking."

Hanif Abdurraqib interviews André 3000 for The Bitter Southerner: https://bittersoutherner.com/2024/andre-3000-is-at-peace-for-now

#Longreads #Interview #Rap #Music #Musicians

longreads, 2 days ago to LongReads

"For Sidney’s parents, the loss is all-consuming. They’ve spent more than three months piecing together the final minutes of her life." —Lori Culbert for The Vancouver Sun

https://vancouversun.com/feature/bc-student-overdose-death-university-victoria

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Fentanyl #Overdose #BritishColumbia #UVIc

longreads, 3 days ago to LongReads

"In our generation, there are so many people who have gone through trauma, especially at the hands of our postwar parents and a bigoted society. Each Rainbow Elder has their own story, but we all share a similar vulnerability." —Abby Tickel for Maclean's

https://macleans.ca/society/my-trans-awakening-at-age-66

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Transgender #RainbowElders #CalgaryAlberta

longreads, 4 days ago to LongReads

"What a sweet romance: an esteemed Hopkins scientist, whose research took him away from home, writing love letters back to his wife in Baltimore. Or so it seemed."

For The Baltimore Banner, Tim Prudente and Stokely Baksh recount a Baltimore resident's discovery of love letters hidden in the wall of her old house: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/lifestyle/spaeth-underhill-love-letters-baltimore-WCNUBB6QEVEJDGRUXVHKF7JAGI/

#Longreads #Baltimore #Secrets #Love #Letters #Scandal

longreads, 4 days ago to LongReads

"There has always been a certain feeling of euphoria that comes to Tony Pabón as he looks out at the dance floor from his D.J. table at Salsannati Dance Company." —Charley Locke for New York Times Magazine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/magazine/last-day-work.html

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Workk #Retirement #Profiles

longreads, 5 days ago to LongReads

"If you sell priceless art with the proverbial gun to your head as a means of survival, does it really count?"

For Chicago Magazine, Kelley Engelbrecht writes about contested ownership and the restitution of Nazi-confiscated art: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/june-july-2024/the-drawing-the-art-institute-wont-give-back/

#Longreads #Art #ArtCollecting #Museum #Restitution #Chicago #Jewish #Nazis

longreads, 5 days ago to UnitedKingdom

"It gave an impression of mathematical clarity and coherence, distracting from another possibility: that there had never been any crimes at all."

For The New Yorker, Rachel Aviv dissects a case that shocked the #UnitedKingdom — but perhaps for the wrong reasons: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/lucy-letby-was-found-guilty-of-killing-seven-babies-did-she-do-it

#Longreads #Nurse #Crime #Murder #Justice #Journalism

longreads, 5 days ago to LongReads

"It was my first in-person chess competition, and I was full of optimism. I faced a severe-looking child who wore a food-stained sweatshirt emblazoned with a cartoon penguin." @robaeprice for Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/sexism-cheating-nightclubs-internet-inside-dark-heart-modern-chess-toxic-2024-5

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Chess #Cheating #Misogyny

longreads, 5 days ago to LongReads

"The entire history of the game sounds like a series of unending crises and social engineering experiments."

For Defector, Nick Zarzycki chronicle Magic: The Gathering's history and development: https://defector.com/the-creator-of-magic-the-gathering-knows-exactly-where-it-all-went-wrong

#Longreads #Games #Gamers #Magic

longreads, 5 days ago to LSD

"Mediating the profane as much as the sacred, blotter became the central vehicle of LSD’s own weird drift through the post-hippie era."

In an excerpt from his book "Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium," Erik Davis theorizes on why blotter proved the ideal carrier for #LSD: https://aeon.co/essays/how-outlaw-chemists-used-blotter-to-dose-the-world-with-lsd

#Longreads #Books #Essay #Drugs #Acid #Psychedelic #Counterculture

longreads, 6 days ago to music

"He showed me how to strum and set me free to play. Three strings—past, present, and future—unified in one connective strum. I inhaled deeply to keep from crying. Yes, this is beautiful."

A new essay by Ayla Samli on the joy of #music, the life of an #instrument, and the sweet sounds of the mountain #dulcimer: https://longreads.com/2024/05/14/dulcimer-instrument-family-heritage-connection?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Essay #Heritage #Identity #Appalachian

longreads, 6 days ago to apple

"This ad doesn't just show destruction. It delights in it."

For http://RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz analyzes the disturbing and shocking #Apple ad promoting the new iPad Pro:
https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/dear-tim-cook-be-a-decent-human-being-and-delete-this-horrible-violent-depressing-ad-for-your-product

#Longreads #Technology #Tech #Creativity #AI #Artists #TimCook

longreads, 6 days ago to science

"MDMA users, many of whom partied weekly among thousands of others and had never witnessed the negative consequences splashed across the media, inhabited an entirely different world."

For The New York Review of Books, Mike Jay reports on the shifting #science around #MDMA: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/ecstasys-odyssey-the-history-of-mdma/

#Longreads #Drugs #Ecstasy #Psychotherapy

longreads, 9 days ago to LongReads

"I take out $50,000 in student loans every single year, and it sucks. I have to work 20 hours a week to pay off the interest. I hate sitting here knowing I’m working my ass off only so my money can go to supporting genocide."

For #NewYork magazine, the staff of the Columbia Daily Spectator give an on-the-ground report of the weeks that changed #ColumbiaUniversity: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-university-protests-israel-gaza-campus.html

#Longreads #Protests

longreads, 9 days ago to LongReads

"At the Chelsea production offices, an elevator door opened and there was Bing, magisterial in every respect: a lean, muscular hundred and forty-five pounds and, by the prop department’s tape measure, forty-two inches tall from his forepaws to the top of his skull." —Nick Paumgarten for The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/an-a-list-animal-trainer-prepares-a-great-dane-for-his-film-debut/?src=longreads

#longreads #writing #nonfiction

longreads, 9 days ago to LongReads

"What has unfolded this year around Snows Court is an old-fashioned neighborhood melodrama — 'Kittygate,' if you must — complete with wounded feelings, rampant gossip, sidewalk spies, lawsuit threats and tricky questions . . ." —Andrea Sachs for The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2024/05/09/kitty-snows-foggy-bottom-alley-cat-watergate/?src=longreads

#longreads #writing #nonfiction

longreads, 9 days ago to LongReads

This week's Top 5:

∙ Warrior-culture capitalism (The Baffler)
∙ The joy of scientific discovery (Nautilus)
∙ Booking a table—for a price (The New Yorker)
∙ Houses in Sicily for one euro (AFAR)
∙ An oral history of Go, 25 years later (GQ)

https://longreads.com/2024/05/10/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-515/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=t5-2024-05-10

#Longreads #Journalism #Nonfiction #Reading

longreads, 9 days ago to LongReads

"The officers accused of abusing teenagers spanned the ranks, from patrolmen to police chiefs. Some were department veterans cited in news articles for their community work."

Lakeidra Chavis, Daphne Duret, and Joseph Neff for The Marshall Project investigate a #police youth program created by the #BoyScoutsOfAmerica: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/05/01/police-explorer-sexual-abuse-boy-scouts

#Longreads #Investigation #Abuse #Journalism #Reporting

longreads, 10 days ago to Parenting

"Through our phones, we are under perpetual surveillance by companies that buy and sell data about what kind of person we are, whom we might vote for, what we might purchase, and what we might be nudged into doing."

Jia Tolentino on #parenting and #privacy, for The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-pregnancy-experiment

#Longreads #Pregnancy

longreads, 11 days ago to LongReads

Today at @longreads, Sarah Stankorb has a new essay about about dealing with her bullying, alcoholic father as he and her mother develop dementia.

"We never talked about what a terror he’d been. I assumed it all washed away as ginger ale replaced beer and whiskey."

https://longreads.com/2024/05/09/dementia-bullying-alcoholism-sarah-stankorb/

#Longreads #Dementia #Alcoholism #Family

longreads, 11 days ago to LongReads

"The rise of avocados from a delicacy to an everyman’s lunch on toast has launched cottage industries in home delivery that specialize in offering perfectly ripe fruit, or unique varietals grown throughout the year." —Cathy Erway for Taste Magazine

https://tastecooking.com/the-united-states-of-avocado/

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Food #Avocado #Nutrition

longreads, 11 days ago to LongReads

"I felt like the world stood still for a beautiful moment, and then a new worldview snapped into place, containing real worlds that just might be like ours." –Lisa Kaltenegger for Nautilus

https://nautil.us/discovering-the-first-other-earths-581609/?_sp=3372675d-5596-47f7-a786-2715fc3389df.1715194530102/?src=longreads

#longreads #writing #nonfiction

longreads, 11 days ago to LongReads

“It’s, like, some people play Candy Crush on their phone. I play ‘Dinner Reservations,’ ” he said. “It’s just a way to pass the time.” Last year, he made eighty thousand dollars reselling reservations.

For The New Yorker, Adam Iscoe reports on NYC's restaurant reservation industry: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/why-you-cant-get-a-restaurant-reservation

#Longreads #Restaurant #Dining #NewYorkCity

longreads, 12 days ago to LongReads

"'It works for my lifestyle,' he said. 'It has thick walls, [and] good insulation for the weather. I’d rather live for free in my ambulance than pay for a house I can’t afford. That’s what it actually means to be stuck.'"

For the Los Angeles Times, Jack Flemming profiles a man who lives in an #ambulance:
@jflem94 @latimes #longreads

#Longreads #Housing #Homeownership #California #LosAngeles