Articles
Spring 2010
Share Your Yard (or Get Your Neighbors to Share Theirs)
More space, lower bills, a hot tub? How to get the most out of the space between your houses from The GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods
Create a Neighborhood Clubhouse
For three years, artists Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell ran a store that sold nothing. It was a wild success. Advice on how to make it happen from The GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods
Be a Good Regular
Want everyone to know your name? Tips from The GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods
Winter 2010
In Defense of Time Off
A manifesto for The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down
Watched Pots
Meals for the back burner from The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down
Step Away from the Smartphone
Easy ways to unplug your gadgets and your life from The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down
Fall 2009
Crap Caper
In Chicago, Humble Pile’s illegal cache of human waste is tomorrow’s gardening gold
Spring 2009
Sorry, Portland
A primer on the best burgeoning bike scenes in North America
September / October 2008
Class Action
More and more teachers are quitting public schools. In their own words, seven of them explain why
July / August 2008
Beautiful Messes
A travel guide to man-made disasters
January 2009
Art from the Sole
Susan Danis says yes to the universe. Even when it makes her a bed from a rusty frame, a stained sheet, and a blanket of shoes
November 2008
Avian Spacecraft
After traveling all the way from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, Gail Simpson and Aristotle Georgiades’s giant sculpture Others got stuck in a tree
August 2008
Shock and Awesome (Subscriber access only)
Whether it’s with saws running in the floor or cement sacks tumbling from the sky, Kristof Kintera likes to make the patrons of his art a little nervous
August 2008
Stylish Change
When sculptor Stacey Lee Webber decided to pay tribute to hard work, she invested many long hours of painstaking, repetitive labor. They paid off… by being long, painstaking, and repetitive. And by producing a life-size set of tools out of pennies
May 2008
Auto Erotic
After five ratchet-welding years, Liz Cohen has created a lawnmower that becomes an El Camino
April 2008
Fin Art (Subscriber access only)
Fish fanatic Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard is hooked on the drama of the diorama
February 2008
Beautiful Beans (Subscriber access only)
Gooey and good for you, the easiest way to score the Japanese trend-food natto is to make it yourself
November 2007
Killer Crochet (Subscriber access only)
The monstrously ironic sculptures of Patricia Waller
July 2007
Get a Rise Out of Sourdough (Subscriber access only)
Get a Rise Out of Sourdough (Now reposted online)
The yeasty way to a truly good loaf
January 2007
Power Flower (Subscriber access only)
Towering, 80-foot art cranes make for big, bicycle-eating burningman toys
November 2006
The Secret Life of Death Clouds
Artist Matt Jones steers a giant, inflatable orca through a stand of cacti and survives
May 30, 2010
Tastings with Craft Beers
A special breed of bar makes it its mission to educate and refine beer drinkers’ palates
March / April 2010
S.F. to L.A.: Fly or drive?
Is it cheaper, faster, safer, and more environmentally responsible to fly or drive between San Francisco and Los Angeles? See the numbers, plus an exhaustive description of how the calculations were made
March / April 2010
Safety is no Accident
Researcher David Zuby talks about about all the good that’s come from smashing thousands of cars together at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
November / December 2009
In the Pipe
Little-known facts about the Banzai Pipeline on Oahu’s North Shore, the world’s most famous—and one of its deadliest—surf breaks
July / August 2009
The Awe in Utah
The largest man-made excavation on Earth has a visitors center. And explosions!
March / April 2009
Man of the Rush Hour
Author Tom Vanderbilt explains what makes “safe” roads especially dangerous
January / February 2009
Pacfic Beaches Perfect for Combing
Story by Michael McRae. Sidebar by yours truly
January / February 2008
The Big Easy Made Easy
Where to eat and what to do in New Orleans. (Story by Roy Blount Jr. Sidebar by yours truly)
November / December 2007
The East Bay’s Pinball Palace
The game is still king in Alameda, California
March, 2011
Nerd Fights Coming to a Venue Near You
There’s a contest out there for every skill, whether it’s perfecting a steampunk railcar or illustrating internet memes in front of a live audience
October, 2010
Home Wreckers: Crash Testing Buildings With Manufactured Disaster
In a massive bunker somewhere in South Carolina, an insurance institute is wreaking havoc in the name of your safety
June 27, 2008
Wired News: Summer Test — Tents
Wired News: Summer Test — Expedition Packs
June 2008
Pump Up the Ham
Pressure cookers reviewed
May 17, 2008
Wired News: Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum
A designer’s collection of ass-kicking toys
April 2008
Acid Trip
Vitriolic artists use a vat of the sulfuric stuff to harness sonoluminescence
March 2008
Home Improvements
Online art galleries peddle original works at the right price
February 2008
February 2008
January 2007
Space Oddity
Disenchanted artist Scott Listfield lands an astronaut in every painting
November 2007
Nôze: Jazz-Loving Technoids
Is pure fun a genre?
September 2007
Quio: Missunderstood
Ina Rotter likes to be taken “unseriously”
April 2007
Tigrics: Hungarian Heart
Problem child Róbert Bereznyei loves music’s ridiculousness factor
October 2006
Jan Jelinek: Sowing Wild Oats
A master of the sequencer finds a new passion in improvisation
June / July 2006
Black Dice: Blood & Guts
Eric Copeland talks about 130 pages of the most psychedelic noise you’ve ever seen
