Erect Knotweed

from are technica Hunting for the ancient lost farms of North America 2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they’re wild weeds. What happened? ANNALEE NEWITZ Adventurers and archaeologists have spent centuries searching for lost cities in the...

Spice World Redux

from Interview CREW MEMBERS EXPLAIN WHY SPICE WORLD IS STILL SO WEIRD, 20 YEARS ON By Rachel Hodin Turn on Spice World today, and I promise it will confound you. So many things about the movie don’t make sense. So many things defy the basic rules of narrative, with...

Sunset

from The New York Times Where the Real Los Angeles Meets the Dream On Sunset Boulevard, two Californias — the lived place and the one seen on screen — run parallel for 22 snaking miles. Photographs by Jake Michaels / Text by Steven Kurutz / Produced by Eve Lyons Like...