Video Gamer Diets Get a Bad Rap for Good Reason
Video Gamer Diets Get a Bad Rap for Good Reason
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This Curator Is Organizing a Bill Murray–Themed Art Exhibition
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Egypt Sentenced Three Journalists to Jail for Doing Their Job
Baher Mohamed, Mohamed Fahmy and Peter Greste at a court appearance on the 1st of June The moment the judge announced that the three Al Jazeera journalists would spend the next seven years or more in...
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I Went to Vulcan, Canada, for a Small-Town Trekkie Convention
All photos by the author Growing up in small town Alberta, I had always vaguely known that there was a nearby place called Vulcan that had a replica of the starship Enterprise. This might’ve been a...
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A Vote Against a Rent Freeze Means New York Is Still Run by and for the Rich
By six on Monday evening, the diverse crowd assembled on the corner of Third Avenue and Seventh Street in Manhattan's East Village to demand a rent freeze was just about ready to explode. New York...
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How to Pick Up Your Teacher
Image via For more than a few young women, dating a teacher is a fantasy. It’s all rooted in that dominant older-man power thing, and then there’s the juicy danger of arrest or expulsion, depending on...
View ArticleArkansas Is the Worst Place to Rent in America
Arkansas Is the Worst Place to Rent in America
View ArticleA Visit to the Little Shop Where Hollywood Buys Its Dead Bodies
On the face of it, Dapper Cadaver is a shop with an unassuming, windowless storefront underneath the landing pattern of Burbank Airport, just outside LA. Its sign advertises "Props Rentals, Sales,...
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The Jehovah's Witnesses' Annual Convention Was So Organized It Was Creepy
Photos by Michael Winters, unless otherwise noted Aside from the occasional door-to-door visits and that one time, which I still feel guilty about, when my brother drenched some evangelists with water...
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Ireland Definitely Isn't the Best Country in the World
Photo by Anthony Cronin The results of a survey dubbed the Good Country Index were released yesterday. Weirdly, Ireland was officially named the best country in the world, ahead of Finland in second,...
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The Ransom of Samantha
This story originally appeared in our June 2014 fiction issue. Photos by Levi Mandel Samantha went to YouTube and clicked Make a Video Response. “Hi,” she said after the countdown, making sure her...
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Hey Indonesia, Hitler Wasn't a Rebel
A stall on the Malioboro, a shopping street in Yogyakarta If during a study-abroad trip to Indonesia you stumble across an image of the Führer, don't be surprised. Tourist stalls all over the country...
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A Few Impressions: Franco's Summer Movie Club
For me, summer means time to watch movies and read books. Since we talked about books last week, here are some movies to watch between the blockbusters full of explosions, men in tights, and aliens on...
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I Talked to the New York State Legislator Who Wants to Ban Tiger Selfies
These guys are the worst. Photo via tigersoftinder.com Animal-rights advocates don't traditionally have any beef with dating apps like Tinder and OKCupid, but so many bros have been recklessly taking...
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After a Police Dog Bit His Leg, This Protester Was Jailed Thanks to a Cop's...
NYPD officers gathered outside Grand Central Station on May Day last year. Photo via Flickr user Timothy Krause The expensive consequences of New York City’s heavy-handed approach to policing protest...
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We Went to a Convention for Gay Police Officers in Berlin
Photos by Grey Hutton The image of the gay cop has been fetishized to death over the last few decades. Tom of Finland, Village People, George Michael, and so many others have done their darndest to...
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A Wannabe Reality TV Lawyer Is Suing a Guy Who Mocked Him on Twitter
Todd Levitt (center, in sunglasses), who does not take kindly to jokes about him online, singing a karaoke version of "Sweet Caroline" with some Central Michigan University students. Screenshot via...
View ArticleSupreme Court: If Police Want to Search Your Phone, They Need to 'Get a Warrant'
Supreme Court: If Police Want to Search Your Phone, They Need to 'Get a Warrant'
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The Anarcho-Primitivist Who Wants Us All to Give Up Technology
“Whenever I think of [inventor of the computer] Alan Turing I think about the Apple logo,” began John Zerzan. “The logo is an apple with a bite out of it. Of course, Turing supposedly smeared cyanide...
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