The Marauder

from The Drive The Legend of the Florida Highway Patrol Mercury Marauder, the Fastest, Rarest Panther of Them All Twenty years ago, the Florida Highway Patrol rolled out a fleet of souped-up Mercury Marauders for high-speed pursuits. BY JESUS GARCIA I spotted a...

Mavericks Drowning

from The Washington Post The famed Mavericks surfing contest drowned in acrimony. Can it be saved? By Les Carpenter On a foggy day on Mavericks Beach, surfers look out over the waves. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The wave roars like a...

MTV News Gone

from The Los Angeles Times MTV News, which chronicled the music and politics of the ’90s, shuts down BY MEG JAMES (MTV ) Perhaps it’s fitting that MTV News, a youth brand if there ever was one, never hit the big 4-0. On Tuesday, Paramount Global pulled the plug on MTV...

SETI 2023

from The Wall Street Journal Will Powerful New Tools Finally Let Us Hear Alien Civilizations? The most potent effort yet to find extraterrestrial life is searching for beings that may not want to be found By Seth Shostak What could motivate extraterrestrial...

Amsterdam Notes

from artnet See the Rare Keith Haring Drawing—Measuring a Massive 125 Feet—That Is Going on View in Amsterdam for the First Time in 30 Years Stedelijk Museum’s director calls it a ‘contemporary Bayeux tapestry.’ by Richard Whiddington Keith Haring...

Chappelle Springs

from Bloomberg What Happens When Dave Chappelle Buys Up Your Town As Chappelle’s comedy made him a controversial figure nationally, some of his Ohio neighbors have been getting mad, too. By Tyler J. Kelley America’s most reclusive comedian isn’t hard to...