Giamatti, Sassoon, Alaska

If you don’t look good, we don’t look good. Hairdressing superstar Vidal Sassoon reveals the source of his inspiration: great architecture. Paul Giamatti tells Kurt Andersen what it’s like to take on the soul of another person. And we follow a poet to an Alaskan Gold Rush town to survey the damage from the Yukon River’s flooding. And Texas indie rockers Girl in a Coma get in touch with their inner Latinas on their new album Trio B.C.