This week for BuzzReads, Drew Philp tells the story of buying and renovating a trashed home in east Detroit. Read that and these other stories from around BuzzFeed and the rest of the web.
Why I Bought a $500 House in Detroit — BuzzFeed
After college, as his friends left Michigan for better opportunities, Drew Philp was determined to help fix his broken, chaotic city by building his own home in the middle of it. He was 23 years old. Read it at BuzzFeed.
Photograph by Garrett MacLean
Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet — Pacific Standard
A must-read article by Amanda Hess about the disproportionate amount of anonymous hate directed at women online, and the impact such threats have on female journalists. What can be done to make things better? Read it at Pacific Standard .
Pacific Standard
Inside the Incredible Booming Subterranean Marijuana Railroad — GQ
Jason Kersten investigates a popular and risky way the cartels are going around — or rather under — the Feds. "Of all the ways pot comes across the border — in hidden compartments of cars driving through legal ports of entry, on boats and airplanes, or lugged in burlap sacks by human mules — none are as efficient and profitable as a drug tunnel." Read it at GQ .
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The Flying Tomato Would Rather You Not Call Him That Anymore — New York Times Magazine
Elizabeth Weil profiles 27-year-old Shaun White, who in his 13 years as a professional snowboarder, has gone from child star, to Olympian sensation nicknamed "the Flying Tomato," to debauched party boy. Now he's trying to rebrand himself again. Read it at the New York Times Magazine .
Finlay MacKay for the The New York Times
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