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Welcome to Star City [1]Listen now | Thirteen years before William Shatner and the billionaires cruised space, Russia was training super-wealthy space tourists in their cosmonaut town, Star City. I went there, twice. It was nuts.

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For visionary sci-fi authors William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, the future of our virtual lives starts with games.

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"I Can Feel Myself Changing." My Rolling Stone Profile of Mark Zuckerberg, Age 21, Uncut.Listen now | In December 2005, I flew to Palo Alto to write one of the first major magazine profiles of Facebook's young founder. He made tea. He playe…

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The gamer community inspired Alexis Ohanian to co-found Reddit. The future of our virtual lives, he says, will rise from the bottom up too.

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The new season for the King of Texas is about to begin.

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The verdict arrives on the murder of Brandon Smith.

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Renaissance, Texas: Fantasy and Murder at the World's Biggest RenFaire [7]Listen now | It ain't easy being the Sheriff of Rennie town. Just ask Grimes County's own cowboy, Don Sowell.

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How a glassblower from Utah turned a tiny Texas town into Renaissance land.

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