Biography

Every great comedian needs material. Josh Blue — the stand-up comic with cerebral palsy who won Last Comic Standing in 2006, became the first comedian to perform stand-up on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and has since built one of the most…

There is a particular kind of freedom that comes only after a long fight — not the abstract kind, but the very specific freedom of walking out of a courtroom after twelve years and saying, clearly and without bitterness: I am done with…

There is a particular irony in asking a journalist to reveal something he has deliberately chosen not to disclose. Kevin Corke has spent the better part of three decades covering four American presidential administrations, standing outside…

There is a particular kind of person who begins working in the food industry at age 12 or 13, studies Marketing at university because it is broader than Food Marketing but still keeps one foot firmly in hospitality, climbs the ladder of…

There is a particular kind of story that seems too neat to be true — the kind where the girl goes to Oxford, loses her skepticism about God, falls in love with the Christian man who planted the seed, marries him, has four children, wins the…

Carlton Milo Higbie IV is not a man who does things quietly. He jumped out of college to become a Navy SEAL when troops were deploying to Iraq. He led missions that captured one of Iraq's most wanted insurgents. He wrote a book that got his…

There are broadcast journalists who do one thing well. And then there are people like Erin Mayovsky — who have anchored the news, forecast the weather, reported sports from the sidelines, hosted lifestyle shows in Florida, worked as a model…

There are meteorologists who simply tell you whether to carry an umbrella. And then there are meteorologists who make you feel like someone genuinely cares whether you get rained on. Erin Little is firmly in the second category — which is…

In Nigerian politics, the distance between technocrat and governorship candidate can be remarkably short — if you have the right relationships, the right record, and the right timing. Bimbo Adekanmbi appears to have all three. A former…

There is a particular kind of political career that is built slowly, across decades, through party structures and provincial chambers before arriving at national prominence. Nokuzola Gladys Tolashe — known widely as Sisisi or Sisi Tolashe —…