Don Mitchell finds beauty, confusion, out-of-place bicyclists, mutual assistance, shitty diapers and a new friend at the Hawai’i County Landfill.

Guillermo Rigondeaux, the most successful amateur boxer in the world, fails to show up for one of his fights at the Pan Am games in Brazil. It turns out he has attempted to defect before being caught and sent back to Cuba, where Castro has forbade him from ever fighting for his country again. A portrait of meeting him in Havana.

People are always asking me for directions. My body language must exude confidence. Or maybe it’s my face: steel-eyed determination successfully masking utter cluelessness. Then again, maybe not, because a blind office worker once asked me to guide him to his building from Grand Central Station. Really. I kid you not. Two previous generations of [...]