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Books
April 30, 2007
Jim Brown: Hall of Famer, Activist, Abuser
Biographer Mike Freeman attempts to understand and explain the football legend, civil-rights activist, and study in contrasts.
Books
April 28, 2007
Brooklyn's Unlikely Chess Champs
Author Michael Weinreb on his two years with the stereotype-shattering chess masters of Edward R. Murrow High School.
Books
April 23, 2007
The Complete Layman's Guide to the Health-Care System
Health-care expert and author Jonathan Cohn helps Gelf understand America's maddeningly confusing health insurance system.
Arts
April 18, 2007
Hip-Hop's Woman Problem
Filmmaker Byron Hurt talks to Gelf about his jeremiad against rampant rapper misogyny.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Nightlife
April 3, 2007
The Wingman Cometh
Anthony Moniello was featured in a widely-discussed Washington Post story last spring about college males who team up to pick up women. Gelf talks to this shameless party boy a year later.
Sports
April 2, 2007
Missing the Expos
Jonah Keri is a stock-market writer by day and a sportswriter by night. Now that the Expos are no more, his favorite club is his fantasy team. And he has a soft spot for Barry Bonds.
Sports
April 2, 2007
A Voice Above All Others
Sportscaster Mel Allen was at the top of his profession. Then, he lost everything, and climbed back. His friend and biographer explains why he thinks Allen 'was the best ever to call the game.'
Sports
April 2, 2007
Baseball in 17 Syllables or Less
Baseball's Poetry/Isn't Found in Limericks/Look to the Haiku
Sports
April 2, 2007
A Sabermetric Scribe
Steven Goldman of Baseball Prospectus talks about the chase for 756, the impact of 'Moneyball,' and why Don Mattingly made him a baseball fan.
Arts
March 6, 2007
The Rebirth of Music Videos
Left for dead by MTV and VH1, a genre finds new life online. An excerpt from the new book 'Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video from the Beatles to the White Stripes.'
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