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We Are Not Men: Ryan Lochte Is a Human Jägerbomb
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
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VICE Premiere: James Franco Just Sent Us His Band's Latest Video
That video up there is called "Crime (<tfo> remix)," and it was directed by VICE's newest cultural critic, James Franco. It's for his band, a duo called Daddy that also features Franco's art...
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Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei: Taipei Public Art
For the past few weeks, in celebration of the forthcoming release of Tao Lin's latest novel, Taipei, we have been featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent trip to...
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Shane Bugbee Searched for the Bad Side of America and Didn’t Find It
Shane blowing his nose under a picture of Geronimo during their stay on an Apache reservation. Photos courtesy of Shane and Amy Bugbee. Shane Bugbee has been pissing people off since the early 90s....
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Rich Paul Is Appealing His 81-Year Prison Sentence for Selling Pot
Rich Paul recording a video from jail. Last month I wrote about Rich Paul, a pro-marijuana activist in Keene, New Hampshire, who was facing 81 years in prison for selling marijuana. Rich had refused...
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A Few Impressions: My Name Is Tom and I’m a Video Game Addict
Image by Courtney Nicholas “I am a video game nerd and I love it.” That’s what Tom Bissell admits in his excellent confession and analysis of his descent (ascent?) into video game addiction, Extra...
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The E-Currency Exchange LibertyReserve.com Got Shut Down for Laundering $6...
Yesterday, the US Attorney's office in Manhattan brought charges against the founder of LibertyReserve.com, an online e-currency trading company that an indictment handed down in Manhattan federal...
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Rapping for Peace in Somalia
Lihle Muhdin performs for former fighters in Mogadishu. Photo by Daniel J Gerstle. Lihle Muhdin’s face was glued to the round airplane window. "Look how beautiful the beaches of Somalia are," he...
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Does Being Total Assholes To Boat People Actually Work?
Image via When I first glimpsed headlines about the exclusion of Australia’s mainland from its migration zone I thought it had to do with birds. Like that time a New York airport blasted Tina Turner...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Takashi Murakami on Nuclear Monsters and Buddhist...
Takashi Murakami's art has always sat at the crossroads where Japanese tradition meets contemporary culture. Often working in sculpture and painting, he recently ventured into the world of cinema with...
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Eddie McGuire's Ape Escape
Standards tend to come in pairs in the media, and with sound reason. If you're a hungover news producer employed to libel-proof the bleeding obvious, you don't have time to fuck around trying to...
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New York State of Mind: Iamsu!, Kilo Kish, Problem, the Flatbush Zombies, Lil...
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
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'Fence' Has Been Reconfiguring the Literary Landscape for 15 Years
Since 1998, Fence magazine has been independently publishing a biannual journal of prose, poetry, art, and criticism; in 2001, they began publishing several lines of innovative, ambitious books. While...
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Got Abused in the Australian Military? Today's your Last Chance to File a Claim
Image via If you happen to be an Australian Defence Force abuse victim, you have until the end of the day to file your claim to the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce, and potentially receive...
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The Silverball Pinball Museum Is My Everything
The boardwalk outside Silverball Museum. Pinball is pretty much all I care about. I make art and I write and I have friends and blah blah blah, but it's all just a means to get quarters and play...
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El Salvador to Pregnant Women: Drop Dead
El Salvador’s Supreme Court decided late last night not to allow a 22-year-old woman known as “Beatriz” to have an abortion, even though she is at risk of serious injury as a result of the...
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Here Be Dragons: Kenya's Slum Abortions Pit God Against Death
While in Kenya, through a contact at a local radio station, a friend and I were able to access an illegal abortion clinic run by a Catholic doctor. We had hiked for more than an hour across Nairobi’s...
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The Soul of UK Garage, Photographed by Ewen Spencer
Over the last few years, it's become increasingly clear that we didn't appreciate UK garage to the extent that we should have. You can't help but think that most of the DJs, producers, filmmakers, and...
View ArticleWe Spoke to Femen About Their Topless Tunisian Protest
Yesterday, three members of the feminist activist group Femen staged a topless protest outside the Ministry of Justice in Tunis, Tunisia. They had gathered there to draw international attention to the...
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Life's Tough When You're Not a North Korean Spy
Image via When This Is Spinal Tap first came out in 1984, there were probably a handful of movie goers who thought the fictional heavy metal rockers it depicted were actually a real band. And back in...
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