Mort Sahl Gone

from Deadline Mort Sahl Dies: Groundbreaking Contrarian Comedian Was 94 By Erik Pedersen, Tom Tapp Mort Sahl, the acerbic comic whose pioneering style paved the way for such boundary-breaking comedians as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, died Tuesday at...

WPKN

from The New Yorker On Air with the Greatest Radio Station in the World WPKN-FM—on which you can hear a Stevie Wonder song performed by an all-women jazz septet or twenty minutes of Tuvan throat singing—moves to a new location in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut....

Superdiver

from GQ The Secrets of The World’s Greatest Freediver With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports. BY DANIEL...

Thick As A Trick

from Louder Sound Jethro Tull: the story behind Thick As A Brick In 1971, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson set out with tongue-in-cheek to make “the mother of all concept albums”. With Thick As A Brick, he ended up fulfilling his ambition – and then some By Malcolm Dome...

Barefoot In The Past

from The Wall Street Journal Ancient Footprints Yield Surprising New Clues About the First Americans Unearthed in New Mexico along what was once a lakefront, the tracks show generations living in the area thousands of years before many scientists believed By Robert...