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Art & Culture

Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street succeeded brilliantly in capturing a culture, and failed miserablyas a call for change. To the director’s dismay, thousands of financial hotshots dreamed of becoming Gordon Gekko—and the rest is recent history. Antici

Why gay couples have more equality and less tension at home--but still split up more often than straight pairs

While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, he is also focused on another sequel: the successive father-son problems that have wounded three generations of Douglases. The author hears how the 65-year-old star made peace with his

This issue’s “God’s Country” photographer talks about what happened after she got the perfect shot.

Momentous or Merely Memorable

Cowboy Culture and the Universe

NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz famously wore a homemade white vest as he averted tragedy during the Apollo 13 mission

In Pennsylvania, amateur archaeologists unearth a mass grave of immigrant railroad workers who disappeared in 1832

A reporter chronicles the revival of the world's most populous Muslim nation a decade after its disintegration

Veteran actor Peter Graves passed away last weekend. Even though the poor guy went to his grave with people asking him “Do you like gladiator movies?” we’d like everyone to remember that he had a very long career prior to (and after) Airplane! Here

There’s a 4,000-year-old cemetery in the desert north of Tibet known as Small River Cemetery No. 5. In it, more than 200 mummies rest underneath a “vigorous forest of phallic symbols,” and the corpses show signs of European and Siberian origin. So

If you were walking through the pouring rain and someone offered you an umbrella, would you accept it or assume it was some sort of weird scam? If you said you would take it and you live in a big city, then you’re probably in the minority. That’s what

When you pour yourself a drink this St. Patrick’s Day, how much do you know about what’s in your glass? We’re about to find out. Take the Quiz: The Drinking Game

Ryan McGinley's "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" Opens at Team Gallery.

An operatic look at the largely forgotten life and times of Benito Mussolini’s first wife Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), veteran Italian helmer Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere is a tragedy on scales both intimate and national. Il Duce’s transformati