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Zach Helfand

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 31, 2026
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Top 50K sites
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Jul 13, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Zach Helfand

    All Rise! Coyote Court Is Now in Session (opens the original)

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    Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before this honorable court are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. Today, the court will issue a decision in the case Coyote v. Acme. A special judge has been drafted into service. He is the Honorable Michael Levine, a personal-injury attorney known to TV and radio audiences in the New York City and Long Island area as Motorcycle Mike. His chambers are in Islandia, on Long Island, with tennis trophies on t

  2. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Zach Helfand

    Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again (opens the original)

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    The Times has published sixty thousand nine hundred and sixty-some issues, so what are the odds that today’s paper is the one you really want to read? “The news doesn’t change that much,” Aaron Reiss, an aspiring entrepreneur, said one recent morning. “A newspaper costs around four dollars, and it’s the quickest-expiring product in the world. Even milk lasts longer. So I was, like, What if I sell old news? That’s free for me, and it’s still good.” Reiss was on the corner of Thi

  3. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Zach Helfand

    Extra! Extra! Read All About It . . . Again (opens the original)

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    At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut.

  4. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Zach Helfand

    Il Paradiso Italiano di Julian Schnabel (opens the original)

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    Julian Schnabel took his first trip to Italy fifty years ago. “When I was in college, I was looking at these art-history books, and I thought, You can’t tell a damn thing about these things unless you go there and stand in front of them,” he said recently. So, he went there and stood in front of them: Giotto’s frescoes in the Cappella degli Scrovegni, Piero della Francesca’s paintings in Arezzo, some Duccio, some Caravaggio. He liked the art, and he liked the Italians. “In the United States, eve

  5. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Zach Helfand

    Rope-a-Dope (opens the original)

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    The largest person I met at the Enhanced Games, a mini Olympics for steroid users that was held in Las Vegas this past May, was a six-foot-ten, three-hundred-and-twenty-pound Russian man named Lukas Lakutsin. He was having lunch near the pool at the Fontainebleau. He wore a tank top, and I was staring, perhaps inappropriately, at the veins in his forearms. I shook his hand. I felt like a newborn clasping onto his father. The pecs, the traps. I asked him what he’d ordered to eat. He replied, “Eve

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