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Is Margaret Thatcher Dead Yet?
A story ran on Indymedia UK last night claiming that Maggie was dead. As far as I can tell, it's not true and, to be fair, the website themselves posted the caveat: This story was also posted on...
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Days Of Thatcher
In July 1981, Liverpool police arrested Leroy Cooper in front of a large crowd in the poor, black Toxteth neighborhood. The arrest, carried out with the force’s then-customary casual brutality, served...
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Question of the Day: Hey UK, Are You Glad That Margaret Thatcher Is Dead?
Photo via Brace yourself, as this bit of news has gone vastly unmentioned on social media today, but Margaret Thatcher is dead. Britain's first female prime minister passed away this morning after a...
View ArticleMy Life Online: The Man Behind @DadBoner
Twitter has also held a greal deal of fascination for me. As someone with a lowly amount of followers, it has always geeked me out knowing that you can @ or talk to someone that you would never have...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Collaborators:...
In a new series, with direction from Ed Lachman, we take a look at the collaborators behind Random Access Memories, the new album from Daft Punk. In episode two we speak with innovative American...
View ArticleVICE News: Teenage Riot - São Paulo
Last October, just before the São Paulo mayoral elections, we followed members of the Free Pass Movement of São Paulo as they celebrated the National Day of the Free Pass. They've been commemorating...
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I'm Sick of Pretending: I Don't "Get" Beyoncé
Image via I don't think I can do it anymore, guys. I have been living a lie. As a gay man with a lot of gay friends, I'd estimate that roughly 30 percent of my conversations are related to Beyoncé in...
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Dogmageddon: Praise Kubrick Christ
There's a moment roughly halfway through the new movie Room 237—the cinematic exploration of the various crackpot theories on what Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is really about—that neatly sums up...
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Going Underground with the Homeless of Ulan Bator
Photographer Mikel Aristregi really gets a kick out of photographing different ethnic regions and subcultures throughout Asia. His newest series, -40/96°, documents desolate, homeless people in Ulan...
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One Young Druze vs. the Entire Israeli Military
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/rrodrickbeiler. Every able-bodied Israeli has to serve in the military when they turn 18. Exceptions are made for Arab citizens and ultra–Orthodox Jews, but not for the...
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Li'l Thinks: Classism
Illustration by Penelope Gazin. Fun fact: when you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re probably talking about class. I mean, maybe, maybe not… but probably. Classism expressed from and about...
View ArticleMetalachi Is Proof That Unironic Mariachi Metal Is a Thing
Metalachi Is Proof That Unironic Mariachi Metal Is a Thing
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Thatcher's War on Acid House
First she came for the milk. Then she came for the mines. Then she ran out of things to come for, so she went after the soccer fans and acid house. It might sound unlikely in an age where there are a...
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Anthea Pokroy Is Trying to Create a Ginger Utopia
Being ginger, I’ve had to fight my way out of baying throngs of murderous persecutors more times than I’d like to remember. So when I found out that artist Anthea Pokroy’s first solo exhibition was...
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My Lunch with One of the World's Top Human Rights Violators
I don’t ever remember getting the call. I don’t remember what they told us on the way there. All I remember is being hurried through to a back room of some regional Russian airport and then waiting....
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Shapes That Make You Dizzy
Coconut Books is the print arm of the longest-running online poetry publisher I can think of. In the past several months, they’ve released a slew of wicked new books. Here are my thoughts on three of...
View ArticleNever Party with the Brick Squad - the Video
Never Party with the Brick Squad - the Video
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Three Teen Girls in Ottawa Have Plead Not Guilty to Pimping
via. According to a very detailed report by the Ottawa Citizen, and a thoroughly researched feature for Ottawa Magazine, three teen girls in Ottawa have been accused with running a prostitution ring...
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Using Terpenes to Call Bullshit on Your Weed Guy
Drug dealer (via Flickr / Lenny Montana) It's a classic first-world stoner predicament: Your guy rolls up with a veritable tackle box of assorted and sticky product. You throw him some cash, and he...
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