Question of the Day: Is It Important to Vote?
Hurricane Sandy has affected the eastern US in a lot of ways—all of them bad—and there’s going to be quite a bit of confusion and rebuilding and restoring of services in the next couple weeks. It...
View ArticleThe Strange Tale of the $780,000 Vagina
Ah, losing your virginity: the holy grail of teen attainment—an occasion preempted by boys buying condoms years before they're ever conceivably going to use them and girls flaunting their stuff at...
View ArticleOn the Road with Obama and Romney - Part VI
Photos by Liz Gorman In Virginia, Mitt Romney's traveling press secretary told us that we'd be welcome, if we could make it, to attend what he said would be a major foreign policy address in...
View ArticleGovernor Chris Christie Pigged Out During Hurricane Sandy
Most Americans are unaware that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has a password-protected livestream from a webcam mounted in his refrigerator to monitor his “food bank” at the fancy governor’s...
View ArticleMy Family’s War with Animal Activists
I belong to a doggy dynasty. My grandfather showed dogs at Westminster, my brother’s life partner runs a puppy spa, and my mother owns one of the biggest privately-owned puppy stores in America. We’re...
View ArticleChunklet to Go Go : Defending Reggae to White People Who Don’t Like Reggae
So you've decided you don't like reggae. I can respect this decision. There's some good thinking involved in this decision. Whenever I talk to a fellow white person who has decided they don't like...
View ArticleTattoo Age: Thom deVita - Trailer
The next Tattoo Age series is about Thom deVita. Thom is an artist on many levels, and tattooing is just one of the ways he expresses himself. He began tattooing in New York City in the late 60s, when...
View ArticleThat Was Some Blow Job
In case you just woke up from a coma in Montana (if so, congrats!) and haven't heard, the Eastern Seaboard of the United States got fucked up real bad last night. Hurricane Sandy, a massive orgy of...
View Article55DSL's "Beyond Mountains, More Mountains" LA Premiere Party
This past Saturday night in Los Angeles, our friends over at 55DSL held a screening and after party at Dim Mak Studios to celebrate the release of their latest short film, Beyond Mountains, More...
View ArticleForeign Correspondents: Laurence Haim at the Hofstra Presidential Debate
i-Télé correspondent Laurence Haim hits the second presidential debate in Long Island, voicing her frustrations about the limited access granted to foreign press and looking forward to joining...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy's Rat Problem
The New York City subway tunnels are home to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of rats, a big portion of whom needed to find higher ground when Hurricane Sandy slammed into downtown Manhattan...
View ArticleWhy It's OK to Stare
Confession. I see the East Coast today and feel something (among many other things) unwelcome: jealousy. I moved back West only a month ago, leaving behind Maryland after five years. The landscapes...
View ArticleMarshall Headphones: On the Road: Groupies, Dicks And the Pitbull
Cynthia Plaster Caster is probably the most famous groupie of all time. Aside from being known for “hanging around” with the likes of Led Zeppelin, she rose to fame for her party trick – making casts...
View ArticleThe Cute Show Page!: Wiener Dog Races!
Photo by Will Lew Dachshunds were originally bred in Germany to hunt badgers, but now that we have grocery stores and vermin-control services, most people who aren’t of royal blood or complete...
View ArticleThe Punks in Olympia Haven't Aged a Bit
Ben Trogdon is from Olympia, Washington and has been my penpal and favorite photographer for a couple of years. I like his photos because he's one of the few people whose work I discovered on the...
View ArticleMeet the YPG, the Kurdish Militia That Doesn't Want Help from Anyone
On Thursday, FSA rebels advanced into Kurdish and Christian neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria, in a daring attempt to capture the city. Initial reports based on FSA claims and somebody’s friend who spoke...
View ArticleSupporting the Troops Through Sexting
“aaaaauuuuuhhh ... aaauuuuuyyyy.” An American soldier stationed in Afghanistan whom I’ll call “Steve” keeps texting me moaning noises. He’s not in pain, he just wants me to fuck him, or more...
View ArticleBarbarian, Void of Refinement: A Complete History of Goth
Goth: 1) A: of music, in a style of guitar-based rock with some similarities to heavy metal and punk and usually characterized by depressing or mournful lyrics. B: in fashion, characterized by...
View ArticlePopping the Marks: Blood and Islam: Between Eid and Ashura
At this moment in the Islamic calendar, we stand between two holidays in which truth is performed with the spilling of blood: Eid al-Adha, which was celebrated this past week, and Ashura, which will...
View ArticleJohn Martin Fischer Is Going to Solve the Afterlife
In July, a philosopher named John Martin Fischer was awarded a five million dollar grant to oversee a philosophical, theological, and scientific study on the question of immortality. Fischer called...
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