Archive | January, 2009

Ted Ligety’s Notes From the World Cup Ski Tour Part 3

January 30, 2009

2 Comments

Ted Ligety’s Notes From the World Cup Ski Tour Part 3

World Cup and Olympic champion Ted Ligety blogs about ski racing in a unique event held in Moscow, Russia.

Continue reading...

Your Perfect Weekend: Jan. 30 - Feb. 1

January 29, 2009

1 Comment

Your Perfect Weekend: Jan. 30 - Feb. 1

You've got to do something before the kick-off in Tampa, so we give you the best options for partying, snowboarding, skiing, and running before settling in front of a big screen and stuffing your face with far too many pigs-in-a-blanket.

Continue reading...

How Long Before the Next Titanic?

January 29, 2009

3 Comments

How Long Before the Next Titanic?

Antarctica is emerging as one of the cruise industry’s hottest destinations. But the chance of an iceberg taking a ship down is growing just as fast.

Continue reading...

Books: Q&A with T.C. Boyle

January 28, 2009

0 Comments

Books: Q&A with T.C. Boyle

The incomparable life of Frank Lloyd Wright, explored through his lovers

Continue reading...

Exit Interview: Chuck Yeager

January 26, 2009

2 Comments

Exit Interview: Chuck Yeager

The greatest pilot in military history weighs in on breaking the sound barrier and butterscotch pie.

Continue reading...

Your Perfect Weekend: January 23-25

January 22, 2009

1 Comment

Your Perfect Weekend: January 23-25

The best things to do when the thermometer's in the single digits? Ski, snowboard, drink beer, and help an ancient tribe in Arizona rebuild its trails. Once again, we tell you where to do it all.

Continue reading...

Afghanistan: The New War for Hearts and Minds

January 21, 2009

84 Comments

Afghanistan: The New War for Hearts and Minds

ROBERT YOUNG PELTON goes deep inside America’s new, brainier strategy in Afghanistan and finds that, on the front line, scientists and soldiers don’t always mix. An absurdist tale of modern warfare.

Continue reading...

The Great Clean-Up

January 16, 2009

3 Comments

The Great Clean-Up

Fraud and incompetence on Wall Street have led the news for months, but the financial world doesn't have a monopoly on corruption. BILL MCKIBBEN argues that our nation's natural resources were mismanaged under Bush, too, and need serious help from Team Obama.

Continue reading...

Ed Zwick on his Defiance

January 16, 2009

1 Comment

Ed Zwick on his <em>Defiance</em>

After 10 years of effort, the director of such epics as Glory, The Last Samurai, and Blood Diamond finally brings his new World War II saga to the screen.

Continue reading...

Your Perfect Weekend: January 16-18

January 16, 2009

0 Comments

Your Perfect Weekend: January 16-18

The weekend's finally here. Celebrate by hitting up the X-world's version of Sundance and climbing some frozen waterfalls.

Continue reading...

Evan Tanner’s Final Test

January 14, 2009

29 Comments

Evan Tanner’s Final Test

Last fall the former UFC champ rode his motorcycle into the California desert, looking to pit himself against nature in the harshest of conditions. He saw it as testing his limits. But it was the culmination of a lifetime of battling demons.

Continue reading...

The Unlikely Return of Mickey Rourke

January 13, 2009

20 Comments

The Unlikely Return of Mickey Rourke

Sure, the Golden Globe winner isn’t as pretty as he was, but he is having more sex and attracting attention for his acting, not his antics. And if Rourke doesn’t nab an Oscar this time, so what? He’s going for one next year, too.

Continue reading...

The Driver’s Seat: Supercar School

January 13, 2009

3 Comments

The Driver’s Seat: Supercar School

Want to learn how to drive fast in about $1 million worth of exotics? Class is in session.

Continue reading...

Change Your Life: Tap Into Your Creative Side

January 12, 2009

3 Comments

Change Your Life: Tap Into Your Creative Side

We’ve all dreamed of radically reinventing ourselves and living life on our own terms. Michael Terry found creative solutions to the very real hurdles.

Continue reading...

Change Your Life: Devote Yourself to a Cause

January 12, 2009

4 Comments

Change Your Life: Devote Yourself to a Cause

We’ve all dreamed of radically reinventing ourselves and living life on our own terms. John Wood found creative solutions to the very real hurdles.

Continue reading...