http://gangrey.com Prolonging the slow death of newspapers 2010-03-11T14:23:41Z http://gangrey.com/2380 Michael Mooney: In seconds, beauty morphs into brutality. The quarterback takes the ball and drops back three steps, right elbow cocked, eyes darting across the field. Anonka Dixon spots her favorite receiver, Tina Caccavale, but she's double-coveredweofije... ben 2010-03-11T14:23:41Z http://gangrey.com/2379 How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers? ben 2010-03-11T13:51:05Z http://gangrey.com/2378 Go, now, and sign up for the Mayborn conference in Grapevine, Texas, July 23-25. Sweet line-up, with keynotes by Gary Smith, Mark Bowden and Mary Karr. ben 2010-03-10T14:25:44Z http://gangrey.com/2377 Leonora LaPeter Anton: CLEARWATER Robert Utley and his mother pedal their bikes up the sidewalk toward the library. The temperature is in the 40s, but Robert doesn't feel cold. He doesn't feel much of anything. Inside, Robert sits in front of his batweofije... ben 2010-03-10T14:13:34Z http://gangrey.com/2376 John Barry: ST. PETERSBURG The way it was for 30 years, grizzled old fishermen, smelling of salt and last night's bait, stumbled into Skyway Jack's at dawn. A skinny Tennessee hillbilly brought their coffee and said voice as Southern as peppered gritweofije... ben 2010-03-09T19:10:39Z http://gangrey.com/2375 Mark Seal (thanks, Mark): A man waits in the darkness, watching what is left of his life slip away. His name is Robert Joel Halderman. At 51, he is a producer for the CBS true-crime series 48 Hours Mystery, the latest post for a battle-scarred newsmaweofije... ben 2010-03-09T19:02:22Z http://gangrey.com/2374 Congrats to Tom Lake and Tony Rehagen, finalists for Writer of the Year in this year's CRMA Awards. Tom's also up for Feature Writing for "The Debtor" and Reporting for "The Good People of Dalton Would Like Jobs Now, Please." Tony's up for Personalitweofije... ben 2010-03-08T22:02:42Z http://gangrey.com/2373 Did someone else already post this? Even if they did, these stories -- by C.J. Chivers, Tom Junod, Richard Ben Cramer, Gay Talese, John Sack, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer -- are worth another look. For its 75th anniversary, Esquire named them the sevweofije... T. Lake 2010-03-07T20:38:21Z http://gangrey.com/2372 Tommy Tomlinson: Jake Delhomme cries. And of course the jokes start right away. We cried, too, when you threw all those interceptions. Maybe he can wipe his eyes with some of that 13 million dollars he's getting. T. Lake 2010-03-07T20:33:06Z http://gangrey.com/2371 From Story Lab: ... After the story appeared, I sent Sutherland an email asking him what he thought. He wasn t happy with the drawing that accompanied the story, a couple of sharks circling a woman. And he wasn t happy with the comments that readers weofije... ben 2010-03-05T17:48:28Z http://gangrey.com/2370 Two Fridays in a row I have arrived to work in emotional shambles. Thanks, Story Corps. But why does this work? If you missed the stories (are they stories?) on the last two Fridays, give them a quick listen. Do me a favor though and don't read anythweofije... ben 2010-03-05T13:18:40Z http://gangrey.com/2369 Kurt Streeter: The man, a thin and gray-haired federal judge, walked nervously up and down the streets of skid row, past drug dealers, pimps and thugs, past rows of men lying like glass-eyed zombies against concrete walls. "Excuse me," he said, pulliweofije... ben 2010-03-03T17:31:38Z http://gangrey.com/2368 Trent Moorman (thanks, Hank): he first thing you notice: eerie, sleek, air-lock cleanliness. Bodies: The Exhibition being an emporium of dissected dead people, I expected cots and canvas, a triage tent with bloodstains and tears. I couldn't believe hweofije... ben 2010-03-03T17:29:25Z http://gangrey.com/2367 Hank Stuever: Of course Jay Leno opened his return to "The Tonight Show" Monday night with an "it was all a dream" gag, waking in a sepia-toned, Dorothy delirium from "The Wizard of Oz." Because it was sort of like a bad dream -- a national late-nighweofije... ben 2010-03-03T13:03:12Z http://gangrey.com/2366 Miles Amoore (thanks, Dawson): THE patrol set off in darkness. Through fields of poppy and wheat, 100 men from the Brigade Reconnaissance Force stumbled towards their target, a strip of compounds that had been used by the Taliban to fire on British tweofije... ben 2010-03-02T14:03:59Z http://gangrey.com/2365 Michael Brick: CEDAR PARK, Texas Game night, and the goalie paused in his doorway 6 feet 4 inches, 212 pounds and a faithless left knee backlit against the amber glow of a townhouse leased for seven months to last the hockey season. T. Lake 2010-03-02T02:35:18Z