
As the editor-in-chief of this ship, what’s most exciting about Jenny and Yidan’s nominations is that both of their features ran in other outlets as well.
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Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: Dear Reader, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
As the editor-in-chief of this ship, what’s most exciting about Jenny and Yidan’s nominations is that both of their features ran in other outlets as well.
Written by NYADENYA OGHENEVO FRANCIS INYAGWA Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us
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Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
They thought we were just a bunch of fuckin’ scumbags putting out a paper, having a good time, smoking a bunch of pot. But they couldn’t give up that ultimate control and let us go nuts.
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
"I have one regret from my Dig time, and it’s the story I never wrote."
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
“Sure! I’ll run into an abandoned subway tunnel for a freelancer I just met! No problem!”
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
"It was kind of a perfect storm moment. Gay marriage was on the ballot. When you get a cover like that, it sticks with you for a while."
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
I asked Billy Joel fans questions that a fundamentalist Christian would ask after a Marilyn Manson concert in 1997, swapping the names “Billy Joel” for “Marilyn Manson.”
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
The intern wrote something like, “The ’80s! It’s fun! Dance party!” I looked at that and said, “No, this is too earnest. I will destroy it.”
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
We’re like, “Sure! That should go in a newspaper! Put that in there!”
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
The Dig at that point was more of a Dadaist prank or a piece of performance art—almost a metacommentary joke about having a newspaper—as much as it was a newspaper.