Joshuah Bearman

Billy Mitchell discovered his Calling early. It was 1981, and Billy was a teenager, with feathered hair, a faint mustache, and a Midas touch with a joystick: He was one of the best video-game players in the world. Preternatural was his skill then, and preternatural it remains 22 years later,......

PRESIDENTIAL WEEKEND: Juggernaut Snits and Shoe Eaters “What’s the name of your paper again? I don’t believe you’re from a legitimate news organization. Thanks for calling.” Click. That was the White House Press Office, responding to a request to attend George Bush’s massive Friday-night fund-raiser in Century City. It was,......

Photos by Nik Wheeler Azzam and Suzie Alwash have big plans, and on the day I visited them at their home in Fullerton, they had misplaced some of them. “Did you call the airport?” “Yes. We have to call them back later.” “How could I leave all the maps on......

Cheeta is still a natural in front of the camera. Not surprising, really — he's been at it since he was an infant chimp back in the 1930s, starring opposite Johnny Weissmuller in over a dozen Tarzan films. At age 71, Cheeta was just certified by the Guinness Book of......

THE NATION WAS SHOCKED TO DISCOVER THAT RAY WALLACE, THE MAN who owned the construction company in Northern California where the tracks that sparked the 20th-century Bigfoot frenzy — well, he seems to have made the prints himself. Wallace died three weeks ago, and his family announced that he had......

MR. WINKLE IS THAT CHARMING LITTLE DOWNY PUFF OF A DOG WHOSE big warm marbles for eyes and russet fur make him look like a living stuffed animal. The one you might have seen dressed up as an angel or a witch on T-shirts, mugs, posters and the Web site......

For months the awakening of anti-Semitism in Europe has been in the news. Anti-Jewish vandalism and violence have risen sharply in France, Italy and Eastern Europe. In Brussels, seat of the European Parliament, the chief rabbi was assaulted by attackers who called him “a dirty Jew.” The liberal Italian daily......

“So, what revolutionary future do you see for Israel today, Joshy?” That’s my grandfather Abe talking; I called to wish him a happy 84th birthday. “Are they all packed for Texas?” He‘s still stuck on an errant comment I made some years back that the Israelis could all move to......