Everythingweird

It started with a video. Loud music. Alcohol on the table. A group of young men laughing for the camera. In the middle of it all was a teenager who had built an internet persona around chaos and partying. At one point in the clip, he looked direc…

June 18, 2013. Just after midnight. The streets of Los Angeles were quiet in that strange way only big cities can be. Empty stretches of road, glowing traffic lights with no one to obey them, and the distant hum of a city that never really sleeps. …

Gary Webb didn’t set out to become a symbol. He was just a reporter doing what reporters are supposed to do follow the paper trail and ask uncomfortable questions. By the mid-1990s, Webb was working at the San Jose Mercury News , a respected regio…

The Sentence That Shouldn’t Exist The radio chatter was ordinary. Almost boring. A routine exchange between a young pilot and air traffic control, floating over Bass Strait as the sun slipped away. No panic. No raised voice. Just the soft hum of a…