Saturday, January 4, 2025

A Wave Is a Wave, but Here It's a Person, Too (Newser Deep Dive)

Newser Newsletter
January 4, 2025
 
 
It's a story about surfing that goes way beyond surfing. In Nautilus, Kristen French describes her experience trying to ride a unique wave at a Brazilian beach. Keep reading
 
When Linde Jacobs' mother was in her 50s, her behavior changed dramatically. In a handful of years, Allison went from a stable matriarch to someone who shoplifted, drove recklessly, and began flouting boundaries and pinching strangers. Keep reading
 
In the late 1960s, the New York City building was home to the Scene, a club frequented by the likes of Richard Pryor, Liza Minelli, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. In the years that followed, 301 W. 46th St. housed an X-rated video store, a dive bar, and a restaurant, which in 2003 decided to install a walk-in freezer in the basement. Keep reading
 
We've reported before on the case of Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old who was found dead from 20 stab wounds on Jan. 26, 2011, in the Philadelphia apartment she shared with her fiance. Her death was initially ruled a homicide but then changed to suicide, a classification her parents have fought for more than a decade to be changed. Keep reading
 
From the Archives
Alenka Artnik's origin story produces chills, in more ways than one. In a stunning piece for the Long Read, Xan Rice details a 2010 night on a Slovenian bridge when the almost-30-year-old—weighed down by her father's psychological abuse and the death of her mother and her stepbrother—nearly decided to end it all. Keep reading
 
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