August 20, 2012: Holiday
By The Morning News
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- We're on summer vacation until Aug. 27. In the meantime, enjoy a selection of our summer longreads.
- A report from North America's largest consumer craft fair, where the competition for puppet dollars is intense.
- A two-week journey across the U.S.—passing through a handful of small towns named Paris—to find out how Americans see France today.
- When a marriage and family counselor enters a crisis, here come the tattoos, affairs, and professional infidelities.
- A story of rape, defeat, and the religion that is college basketball. Victory has many faces—some of them just happen to be painted.
- The next time jet lag ruins your day—exhausted, yawning, blurry-eyed, fiending for any means of correction—stop looking for the cure inside purgatory.
- Jessica Francis Kane interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.
- Talking with the author of The Financial Lives of the Poets on Hollywood survival and that unheralded Paris of the Northwest: Spokane.
- A look at the history of bagels from a baker with 50,000 "golden visions" under his belt.
- Every year in July, people are injured—some killed—during Spain's San Fermín festival when bulls run the streets.
- For decades, the U.S. government banned medical studies of LSD. But for one longtime researcher, the promise of mind-blowing revelations was too tempting.
- America's funeral parlors rely on one man to provide the theme music for memorial services—welcome to "semi-spiritual" ambient music for mourning.
- A post-WWII documentary, banned by the military in 1946 but lately released online, is one of the earliest depictions of psychotherapy.
- Long rumored to be teeming with alcohol, affairs, and creative hoodoo, artist colonies are a world unto themselves.
