Tubesteak: That Time I Got in a Fight With a Male Stripper
Driving out past the palm-lined strip malls and blinking neon motels, I knew that Swinging Richards was going to be the kind of place where you find trouble. After all, this place is far on the...
View ArticleMcDonald's is Violating Labor Laws in Brazil
Brazil is home to more McDonald’s than any other place in the Western Hemisphere, aside from the US. The federal police in Brazil recently announced that they have been investigating McDonald’s for...
View ArticleStop Talking Crap About the Florida Music Scene
A lot of people were upset about THIS POST we ran yesterday, so we were like, "fine, tell us about how we fucked up," and this guy did. Everybody friends now? Florida isn't paradise. You can point...
View ArticlePen Pals: Down in the Hole
I’ve been watching some prison shows recently, and I can’t help but constantly call bullshit on them. I don’t know for sure that what I’m seeing is unreal, ’cause even though I’ve been jammed up in...
View ArticleAnonymous Hacked Bank of America
You’ve probably already heard of Anonymous, the world’s most infamous group of cybertrolling hacktivists. They frequently make headlines for crashing websites and looting corporate and government...
View ArticleTalking About Knives and Fascism with Iceage
Iceage appeared seemingly out of nowhere in 2011 with a flurry of ferocious, melodic anthems that skirt the line between making you want to windmill round your office punching your co-workers in the...
View ArticleBecause the Night
Vintage stole from New York Vintage, Ann Demeulemeester jacket, Georgette top, Reformation dress. PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA RAPP Stylist: Cristian Stroble at Walter Schupfer Management Stylist's Assistant:...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's that time of the week where we shame two pussies again! Cry-Baby #1: The mystery arsonists of Billericay (via) The incident: A man made a scarecrow. The appropriate response: If you're a bird,...
View ArticleWe Interviewed Justin Gage of Aquarium Drunkard About 'Sidecar' Transmissions
Since last September, LA-based music blog Aquarium Drunkard has been releasing these mysterious and esoteric podcasts on a semiweekly basis called Sidecar. Each installment is a numbered...
View ArticleBucharest Is a Paradise
According to legend, the capital of Romania takes its name from some guy called Bucur who was either a prince, an outlaw, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a hunter. It's difficult to understand how the...
View ArticleCan Ashley Judd Save America?
Mitch McConnell is what’s wrong with America. I don’t mean that if the Kentuckian weren’t Senate Minority Leader and the most powerful Republican in Congress, we wouldn’t have AIDS or prison or people...
View ArticleBradley Manning Pleaded Guilty Yesterday: 'I Did It'
After a blizzard blanketed the mid-Atlantic in early 2010, a 22-year-old soldier home on leave in Potomac, Maryland, braved the storm in hopes of locating an internet connection that, unlike the one...
View ArticlePlease Stop Making Those Ironic Fashion T-Shirts
One thing you should understand before you reblog that Margiela mask is that you’ll probably never ever see it in person, let alone purchase it. And if you are fucking with that sort of fashion, you...
View ArticleSad-Ass Music #9: A Chat with Dirty Beaches' Alex Zhang Hungtai
I mean there is a general sadness to most music that I love, but I don't think of them as sad music until my roommates or friends ask me, "Are you ok?" I “met” Alex Zhang Hungtai, better known as...
View ArticleThe ATL Twins Would Like to Introduce You to the Li’l Twins
Photos by Matt Swinsky The world has always been a terrifying place, but few have the bravery to stick their head into the vilest and most dead-end aspects of the human condition and document it. As...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Parenthetical Girls'"A Note to Self" Video
As you begin to fold in the corners on your day—or maybe you'll be seeing this over the weekend, in which case who the hell knows what you're doing?—please feed your eye pores with this latest video...
View ArticleNeon Waters Run Deep
There's nothing fundamentally offensive, really, about the new Odd Future Stone Wash Pajama Zubaz uniforms that adidas rolled out on Thursday, in preparation for the NCAA tournament later this...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of the Four-Month-Long Orgasm: Getting Off with OneTaste Orgasmic...
I am surrounded by 50 strangers—half of them females naked from the waist down, legs butterflied open. I glance back at the face of the woman I’m intertwined with. Her eyes are closed. We just met. I...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal - Costa Rican Roll
For this week's Mahal, I decided to get our last roll of film from Costa Rica developed to reminisce about the fun times we shared with my aunt and her friend Hitch last month. I think it's safe to...
View ArticleThe Passing of a Magnificent Wind
In not-really-that-surprising news this week the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Fung Wah, the notorious progenitor of low-cost interstate bus services, off the road. This news hit...
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