Yosemite National Park

Best in Show: The Spook Brothers

'Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets'

Scientology's Secret Vaults: A Rare Interview With a Former Member of Hush-Hush "CST"

Over the years, we've talked to a lot of former Scientologists, many of whom worked at the church's secretive desert headquarters in Southern California, "Int Base." They were cut off from their families and the outside world, and became accustomed to living in secrecy. But even these people adopt ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: February 1-7, 2012

Yosemite Does Buried Child

Rattlestick stages Daniel Talbott's anguished-family play

Robert Burnham Jr.'s 1983 Testament: An Astronomer-Recluse Inscribes His Universe (Part II)

Burnham in his Prescott, Arizona home lab, circa 1960.​ Yesterday, we published the first half of a 24,000-word "self-interview" by Lowell Observatory astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. on what would have been his 80th birthday. Burnham died in 1993 at the age of 61. He was known not only for hi ... More >>

Robert Burnham Jr.'s 1983 Testament: An Astronomer-Recluse Inscribes His Universe (Part I)

Burnham, circa 1960, at the telescope Clyde Tombaugh used to find Pluto 30 years earlier​ Today, June 16, 2011, would have been Robert Burnham Jr.'s 80th birthday. Burnham was an Arizona astronomer who produced one of the most unusual, and most beloved, set of books of science, his Burnham's ... More >>

Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met

A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'

Government Shutdown Totally Messin' With Space Shuttle Launch

​The government will possibly shutdown tonight at midnight, and you've surely read about how this will affect your life. Tax refunds may be delayed, which is annoying, but the IRS is good for it, right? National parks will close, but everyone knows Yosemite doesn't get poppin' till late May. M ... More >>

Star of Double Rainbow Video Speaks, Plus More Double Rainbow Riffs (Video)!

via Fast Company​Our personal favorite item of the week may well be the melodious, amazing Double Rainbow Auto-Tune that we posted about on Tuesday. You know, the guy goes hiking in Yosemite, witnesses a double rainbow (maybe even a triple rainbow), and goes...orgasmic about it. If you haven't ... More >>

With Goods, 3rd Ward Brings Trailer Park Dining to Williamsburg

Out of the gloaming comes a trailer.​ 3rd Ward co-founder Jason Goodman checked in with Fork in the Road earlier this afternoon to provide some more details about Goods, the trailer kitchen/outdoor dining spot he's opening in an abandoned lot in Williamsburg on June 9. Goods will be located ... More >>

'Into the Sunset': The MOMA Corrals a Photo Survey of the American West

The museum saddles up, effaces history

To the Limit: Cheerfully Lunatic

Speed-climbing psychodrama: It's extreme!

Seasons of the Mind

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Stop Time

Eadweard Muybridge and the Age of the Image

His Backhand Needs Work

No, McEnroe Can't Beat Venus or Serena. Even If He Could, So What?

Working-Class Heroes

Towering Losses, Towering Deeds

Libertarian Belle

Gale Norton Rings in an America Where Polluters Police Themselves and Environmentalists Go Extinct

Western Civilization

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