Kevin Koczwara

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Aya Cash hates auditions; the anticipation, the waiting, all the other actors who are potentially more suited for the job. The experience is a nightmare, harboring all the fears of working in a profession where work is chosen seemingly on a whim.
“This idea that talent wins all is just not true in any business, ever, but we like to pretend,” Cash said, sipping green tea on a rainy Brooklyn afternoon. “The dream: we can all do it as long as you have access to x, y ...

Mary Winchenbach wants to talk to the people in charge of the dictionary. No, she needs to talk to them. She has a problem with the way they spell “turd,” and in fairness, she has a point. “I think Webster’s has it wrong,” she tells me while sitting at her cluttered kitchen table in Maine. “I’m actually going to call them and straighten that out.”
“Why?” I ask.
“How do you spell bird?” she says. “B-I-R-D. Bird. Tird. The same thing. Why would anyone spell it with a ‘u’? It’s just stupid.”
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The canoe paddle hit with a silent thud. It was an unmistakable feeling of something heavy and stiff. The pale and bloated blob could have been anything, but as it came closer to the surface of the water, the hair became visible.
It was a man. He was dead.
My friend found the body 17 years ago on the Saco River in Maine. It was a midsummer Sunday morning, and he, a friend, his older sister and a friend of hers were near the end of a 14-mile float. In that section of the Saco, the water is sha...

Rodriguez became a professional skateboarder in 2002, four years after “Rodney Mullen Vs. Daewon Song” came out. He spent the years between skating every day, falling in love with the sport. In 2011, he was named one of the by magazine. He’s skated around the world, including a chance to grind the railings at Stamford Bridge, but the old skate videos still retain their old magic for him, even as skating has crossed the lines with high fashion, art and music. Nike and Adidas have skate teams n...

On a 230-year-old family farm in a remote corner of Vermont, an enigmatic young brewer quietly stirs up some of the most acclaimed beers in the world....