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Unclaimed: Dead and Buried Alone in Massachusettsnew
Unclaimed bodies are those that their families either not found or, when contacted, not wanting to shoulder the hefty financial burden of burying them – it can cost at least $3,000 for even the most basic burial. In other instances, the reasons run much deeper and are much more personal.
Worcester Magazine |
Walter Bird Jr. |
03-20-2014 |
Features
Coke Dealer to Congressman?new
Meet Aaron Fraser: Former coke dealer, Homo Thug author and aspiring congressman.
The Village Voice |
Tessa Stuart |
03-20-2014 |
Features
Tags: Aaron Fraser
The Very Merry Un-Gangs of Disneylandnew
Droves of tattoo-sporting, vest-wearing nerds roam the Happiest Place On Earth. They don't make war, they say—they make magic.
Trading Placesnew
Yobel International combats the sex trade via fair trade, but that's only half the mission.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
02-26-2014 |
Features
The Secret Lives of a Notorious Sperm-Swappernew
For five years in the early ’90s, I lived two houses down from Tom Lippert, the now-deceased fertility-clinic worker known these days for switching out his sperm and fathering one (or many) children.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Carolyn Campbell |
02-26-2014 |
Features
Travels with the U.S. Coast Guard on the Frozen Great Lakesnew
Conglomerations of small cakes and chunks from other ice formations, coalesced and refrozen into irregular shapes, often with sharp projections. We’re underway, eight nautical miles or thereabouts into the solid white mass of what I’ve been assured is Lake Erie.
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard |
02-20-2014 |
Features
Patients and Prisonersnew
By law, insanity defense patients are innocent, but in one Washington state hospital, they're treated like prisoners.
The Inlander |
Deanna Pan |
02-14-2014 |
Features
The War for Michoacannew
Santa Ana residents are helping to wage a secret war against one of Mexico's most ruthless drug cartels—and they're winning.
The Brothel of Bedfordnew
A behind-closed-doors look at a corrupt network of prostitution customers - and the investigation that brought them down.
Cleveland Scene |
Doug Brown |
01-29-2014 |
Features
ICP vs. FBInew
The Feds have called the Juggalos a gang. The ACLU and Insane Clown Posse are fighting back.
Metro Times |
Brett Callwood |
01-15-2014 |
Features
Tags: Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos
The Paranoid and Obsessive Life of a Mid-Level Bookienew
"When you win and win big, there isn't a better feeling in the world — you're on cloud fuckin' thirty-nine. You want to pop bottles of champagne in the basement because Hawaii won some game."
Cleveland Scene |
Doug Brown |
12-12-2013 |
Features
Heroin, LLCnew
The open-air drug market on the west side thrives in the same way that legal businesses do—by meeting demand, capitalizing on a cheap and plentiful workforce, and offering excellent customer service.
Chicago Reader |
Mick Dumke |
12-05-2013 |
Features
Bad Rabbi: Tales of Extortion and Torturenew
Decades-old tales of extortion and torture depict a divorce broker's brutal grip on Brooklyn's Orthodox community.
The Village Voice |
Albert Samaha |
12-05-2013 |
Features
Tags: Mendel Epstein
The Cleveland Comedy Issuenew
Please laugh. Seriously, just a chuckle or two and we'll consider this thing a success
Cleveland Scene |
Staff |
11-20-2013 |
Features
Tags: Comedy
Turmoil at the Museumnew
Inside the affair, suicide and abrupt resignation that rocked the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard and Doug Brown |
11-13-2013 |
Features
