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We Are Not Men: The Loveliest Chauvinist
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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New York State of Mind: Brooke Candy, Black Dave, Chase 'n' Cashe, and Bodega...
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...
View ArticleNew Laws Would Make Environmental Protest “Terrorism”
Most people have heard of tree-sitting—a tactic environmentalists use to prevent old-growth trees from being cut down and whole forests decimated. In its heyday, in the late 1990s and early 2000s,...
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View ArticleYou Have One More Day to Show Berlin Fotofest Your Pics
The nice folks at the Berlin Fotofest, the ones who are running an exciting contest to find the best cell phone photographers in the world, just told us that they have extended their deadline by one...
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The Company Helping Movie Studios Sue You for Illegal Downloading Has Been...
A screencap from Canipre's website As you may already know, Voltage Pictures, the company responsible for the movie The Hurt Locker, (as well as a million movies you've never heard of) is currently in...
View ArticleThe Conspiracy Theory About Obama Hoarding Ammo Is Causing Real Trouble
The Conspiracy Theory About Obama Hoarding Ammo Is Causing Real Trouble
View ArticleSyria's Refugees Are Wedged Between Hells
I first met war photographer Giles Duley a month ago, to talk about his work both before and after he became a triple amputee in Afghanistan. Giles's most recent trip since we spoke was to Jordan,...
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The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
A cross-lighting ceremony that took place near Tupelo, Mississippi, in late March following a Ku Klux Klan rally in Memphis, Tennessee, that was organized to protest the renaming of three parks in the...
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Some Rich People Are Building a Giant Clock Inside a Mountain
Deep within a mountain somewhere in west Texas, The Long Now Foundation are hard at work building a 500-foot clock that's been designed to run for 10,000 years. I know that sounds a bit like the folly...
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Pretty Girl Bullshit: Twitter Thinks Angelina Jolie Is Nothing Without Breasts
Hi I'm Bertie, this column is basically a place for me to call bullshit on girl-related things I think are stupid. Twenty-four hours on, Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo a double mastectomy is...
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A Few Impressions: 'Gatsby'
Image by Courtney Nicholas The challenge Baz Luhrmann had in adapting The Great Gatsby to film was similar to what Walter Salles faced with On the Road: how to stay loyal to the era depicted, while...
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Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei: The Grand Hotel
Over the next few weeks, in celebration of the forthcoming release of Tao Lin's latest novel, Taipei, we will be featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent trip to...
View ArticleVICE News: Triple Hate - Trailer
Nathan Bedford Forrest is considered by some to be one of the most infamous and powerful racists in American history. The first official leader of the Ku Klux Klan, some historians allege that...
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Should Murderers Be Allowed State-Funded Sex Changes?
Back in 1990, Robert Kosilek (pictured above) killed his wife, Cheryl. He strangled her to death after she poured boiling tea on him. The details are pretty gruesome; Kosilek used a wire. He nearly...
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Suck on the Monolith
Ken Baumann, after getting his ass kicked at prom or something. It’s usually kind of confusing when an actor or athlete or musician writes a book. Unless they’ve paid a ghostwriter to make something...
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Who Protects New Yorkers from the NYPD?
Nicholas Heyward is a haunted man. He is one of many New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to the police. Nineteen years ago, Heyward's son was playing with a toy gun in the stairwell of a Boerum Hill...
View ArticleArt Talk: Matt Mignanelli
Mignanelli's paintings may seem simple at first glance, but spend more time with them and you'll start to admire the patterns created by light and energy. We spent a day with Matt at his studio in...
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Superstorm Sandy, Six Months Later
Just over six months ago, Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast and devasted entire communities, including those that had never before been hit by such extreme weather. As winter turned into spring,...
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