Taji's Mahal - After Hours at Skate Brooklyn
For this week's Mahal, in order to avoid freezing off my testicles, I was lucky enough to drop in on an after hours sesh at Skate Brooklyn. After the demise of the infamous KCDC Ramp, Skate Brooklyn...
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Beijing’s Pollution Problem Is Becoming Hard to Ignore
It’s surprisingly easy to turn a blind eye to environmental degradation in China. The country is the biggest polluter in the world (but only 78th per capita), but that fact becomes a useless...
View ArticleWhat I Leave Out: Confessions of a Resume Liar
I have two resumes. One of them states that I graduated from high school and learned how to drive a truck, work dispatch for deliveries, lead a work crew, and show up places on time. The other reveals...
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Ultras, Anarchists, and Street Fighting in Egypt
As darkness fell on Friday, pro-democracy demonstrators across Egypt were digging in for a long night of fighting with police after a day of generally peaceful marches marking the second anniversary...
View ArticleCatholic Guilt Ruined My Sex Life
After having a lot of really boring, quick, missionary sex with my then-boyfriend, I convinced him to try something different. We didn’t get crazy or do anything or too different, I just prepared a...
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What Are the French Really Up to in Mali?
When it comes to going to war, it’s not too often we get to see France beat the US to the punch. But in the case of Mali, the troubled north African country with a serious jihadi problem, the French...
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Does ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine’ Explain Why I’ve Seen Justin Bieber...
I have seen Justin Bieber’s penis. I did not ask to see his penis, or even necessarily want to see his penis, but I have seen his penis nonetheless. It’s as if the penis was drawn towards me, or I was...
View ArticleWeediquette – Self Medication
One thing that I am guilty of is not taking this shit seriously. To me, weed is pure pleasure, and I indulge in portions of its culture that fall cleanly into the “shenanigans” category. But outside...
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He’s Not Dead Yet? Life with Gene Gregorits
Gene Gregorits is the greatest, truest writer you never heard of, unless you read the news right after he cut off his earlobe and ate it. Twice. How that hurricane of a man ever managed to sit still...
View ArticleShorts: Series Trailer
We created this new Shorts series to release some of our favorite short films, including work by Nash Edgerton (Zero Dark Thirty, The Matrix), Spencer Susser (Hesher), Ray Tintori (MGMT, Beasts of the...
View ArticleArt Talk: Matt Curry
Matt Curry is a painter and illustrator, and the founder of Imagefed design studio. His work has given him two Grammy nominations, both for album covers for the band Thievery Corporation. His...
View ArticleSydney Is a Paradise
Although you might be under the impression that living in Sydney, Australia is something akin to being Wolverine in a Baz Luhrmann film about roughing it in the outback—you're wrong. If photographer...
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Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis: I'm Sick of Waiting for Space...
So here's my plan. People are all excited right now about the new homes that are due to be sent up and tested on the International Space Station. Rather than the clunky metal boxes that astronauts...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Back in Taiwan - Part 3
It’s all about the historical in the last Taipei episode. Eddie spends an afternoon on Shenkeng Old Street soaking up deep-rooted traditions. He hits up the Randall Cunningham of stinky tofu...
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Li'l Thinks: Selfies
Illustration by Penelope Gazin Anything that is commonly understood as the province of teenage girls or their proxies—any girl, really, with hair that has something to do and patented Dreamskin—is...
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Killing Up Close
All photos by Nina Berman except archival image William Wold. As Yahoo! News’s first war correspondent, between 2005 and 2006 Kevin Sites gained notoriety for covering every major conflict across the...
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We Saw This: Iceage - Trailer
2013 is a pretty abominable place to be a purist. Few musicians have been forced to confront that more abruptly than Johan Surrballe Wieth, Jakob Tviling Pless, Dan Klær Nielsen and Elias Bender...
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Boyle's Brains: New Ways to Have Sex
Burrito Roll Buy a pack of corn or flour tortillas. A common misconception is that the larger the tortilla the better the sex—what’s really most important is how much the brand and flavor of the...
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Porn and Free Sashimi and My Wedding in Las Vegas
First we got our wedding out of the way. The AVN convention was in town and we were on the lookout for porn stars. We’d checked into the hotel at noon, eaten the sorry brunch, and now we took a cab to...
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