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One of the greatest journalists and writers of the last century, Tom Wolfe, who died Monday at age 88, had a deep, longstanding connection with Rolling Stone. He and founder and editor in chief Jann S. Wenner met in the late Sixties, and the timing couldn’t have possibly been better. …

Patton Oswalt has had an insane two days, but really, the insanity began years ago. Michelle McNamara, his investigative-journalist wife, died unexpectedly in 2016, leaving the actor/comedian a single father and leaving her life’s work unfinished. Then Oswalt, along with a couple of McNamara’s colleagues, Billy Jensen and Paul Haynes, …

This is part of our user’s guide to legal marijuana across America. For only being the third year of legal cannabis sales in Oregon, the industry in the state has certainly established a singular style. When walking into the average dispensary, customers are accustomed to a fully-realized experience, where decor …

Some comedians break through with a particular shtick. Michelle Wolf has made her name by throwing tornadoes of precise punch-lines at everything from Wonder Woman’s lame lasso of truth to dating, rape, zits, periods, farts, Bill Cosby’s lazy eye, and her own resemblance to both of Hollywood’s Annies – the …

A California judge awarded custody of Charles Manson‘s body to the late cult leader’s grandson Monday, ending a bizarre four-month court battle over who was the true heir to Manson’s corpse. Manson’s remains had been on ice in Kern County, California since his death on November 16th. Following the judge’s …

Stormy Daniels went into great detail about her alleged sexual encounter and subsequent meetings with Donald Trumpyears before he was elected President in a lengthy 5,000-word piece published in full by In Touch Friday. The interview was originally conducted in 2011, years before the former adult film star reportedly signed …

Tom DeLonge‘s To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science posted a pair of declassified U.S. military videos Saturday purportedly showing evidence of unidentified flying objects. The findings by the Blink-182 member’s To the Stars were released at the same time that both the New York Times and Politico reported …

This is an adapted chapter from Caleb Hannan’s new Kindle Single The Accidents; read the full story here. When Dave Weaver first sat down with the file he wasn’t impressed. His bosses told him to work the case the same way he worked every other case, which meant to go …

For a long time, there were no marijuana brands. Cannabis growers spent so much time trying to conceal their identity from law enforcement and potential thieves that it simply made no sense to create distinctive packaging that would make it easier to track their product. Weed nerds might recognize strains, …

In the opening scene of the new documentary Meth Storm, DEA agents and Arkansas State Troopers pursue an alleged associate of Mexican cartels down a rural stretch of road. A trooper drives his cruiser into the left tail of the fleeing Toyota Coppola and forces the suspect to swerve left, …