The Greatest Hip-Hop Album Ever

from LA Weekly The Making of The Chronic By Ben Westhoff Dr. Dre’s seminal 1992 album, The Chronic, turns 20 next month. Though a sensation upon its release, the raw-but-melodic work’s legend has only grown in the ensuing decades, and today seemingly every...

Rikki Tikki Dante

from The New York Daily News Fearless dog saves woman from deadly cottonmouth snake – and almost dies MICHAEL WALSH Man’s best friend doubles as a doggone good bodyguard. Gudrun Mastriano of Kissimmee, Fla., was walking her daughter’s black lab Dante...

Prince Richardson Fizz

from Complex Terry Richardson Photographs Richard Prince With His AriZona Lemon Fizz Collaboration BY CEDAR PASORI In light of his recently announced collaboration with AriZona on a “Lemon Fizz” drink, artist Richard Prince had an impromptu photo shoot...

Marvin Miller Gone

from USAToday MLB union legend Marvin Miller dies at 95 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY Sports 3:39PM EST November 27. 2012 – Marvin Miller, 95, who formed the Major League Baseball Players Association in 1966 and helped transform sports economics, died Tuesday...

Vagina, Eugenics, Hippocampus, Bastardization

from The New York Times Neuroscience: Under Attack By ALISSA QUART THIS fall, science writers have made sport of yet another instance of bad neuroscience. The culprit this time is Naomi Wolf; her new book, “Vagina,” has been roundly drubbed for misrepresenting the...

Capt. Tony Nelson Gone

from TIME Magazine Dallas Star Larry Hagman Dies in Texas By Associated Press (LOS ANGELES) — Larry Hagman, whose predatory oil baron J.R. Ewing on television’s long-running nighttime soap opera “Dallas” became a symbol for 1980s greed and coaxed forth a Texas-sized...