It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodshed. A leader of the Cinta-Larga—an indigenous tribe that for centuries lived in isolation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest—Pio knew that tensions were high between his people and the white diamond prospectors who came to make their fortunes. in … Read more
The owners of Plus Bus Boutique, a consignment store in Los Angeles that buys and sells plus-size fashions, noticed something strange last summer. “We’ve had an alarming amount of larger sizes come in,” says co-owner Marcy Guevara-Prete. With Americans eating less thanks to a new class of weight-loss drugs, retailers are predicting losses in the … Read more
Edna Ferber didn’t want James Dean to play Jett Rink, the wild farm hand turned millionaire oil magnate from her 1952 novel Giant. ‘ She had envisioned someone bolder for the film adaptation. At least someone more famous! Dean was an angelic-faced 24-year-old engineer whose film debut (in the 1955 drama East of Eden) had … Read more