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I Got Stalked and It Was a Total Bummer
The phone calls started a couple of weeks ago. I was at work, and didn't think much of the first one as I politely but quickly hung up before the caller got beyond talking about a music video and a...
View ArticleMunchies: Jonathan Benno
Jonathan Benno is head chef of Lincoln Ristorante, a modern Italian restaurant in the heart of Lincoln Center. Before embarking on this solo project in 2010, Benno worked with Thomas Keller at The...
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Merchandise Are Like the Smiths, but Punk
Merchandise are three guys from Tampa, Florida, who—after spending a few years playing in hardcore/punk bands with names like Dads, Cult Ritual, and Neon Blud—decided to leave behind any dreams of...
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Prolate Spheroid Preview: Offensive Lineman Dreams
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be an NFL offensive lineman. I’m not sure why. I was skinny as hell, and, like most Canadian Jewish boys, mainly liked baseball and hockey. Yet I rooted for the...
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Photographing the Loving Gays of Vietnam
Three months ago, about a 100 bike-riding homosexuals pedaled through Hanoi in what would come to be seen as the Vietnamese capital's first ever gay pride parade. Not too many eyebrows were raised by...
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Komp-LaintDept.Giving Up the Ghost: Andy Warhol Visits the Warhol Show at the...
The Warhol gift shop at the Met. Photo by Jason Metcalf. Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, recently opened to some very...
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Pompeii in the Caribbean
The island micro-nation of Montserrat is set back in a dusty corner of the Caribbean that the Queen never quite let go of. A UK protectorate to this day, the capital city Plymouth was built to suit...
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Andrew Charles Kahn Has Three Names and Makes Commercials for Apple
Andrew Charles Kahn has three names, which is impressive. He is also impressive for the reason that he has made a career in picking songs for commercials, movies, and television. Like that song in...
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Can Digital Drugs Get You High?
About a month ago, a scientist in the United Arab Emirates started making noise about banning something called “binaural beats,” which he referred to as “digital drugs.” These are audio tracks—calling...
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China Is Paying Tibetans to Not Set Themselves On Fire
Self-immolation has become something of a symbol for the Tibetan struggle against Chinese rule. It's been going on for years, but after a recent resurgence in the ultimate display of civil...
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Question of the Day: Who Would Win in a Fight: Jesus, Muhammad, Ganesh, or...
Now, I'm not endorsing religious warfare here (is there any better sentence to introduce yourself with than that?), but when shit does kick off, history tells us it's very much the Christians and...
View ArticleLess than Two Minutes with Boomgates
Boomgates are busy band. With releasing their debut album Double Natural and touring it, all while playing in a bunch of other bands (including Twerps and Dick Diver), they're doing all they can to...
View ArticleBeijing Blocked Google
Beijing is pulling out all the stops in its quest to keep the 18th Party Congress “harmonious,” so that the country’s leaders can properly pursue the ongoing process of reform and opening up. So far...
View ArticleConfronting Judgment
Many of us like to think that we’ll stand strong and act decisively during a crisis, but until we’re put in one, it’s impossible to know we’ll react. That conflict may affect how we view victims of...
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Nothing Stops Syrian Basketball
Photo courtesy of Tane Spasev Coaching a youth sports team is a tough task as it is, but it gets much, much harder when the families of the players are dying in a civil war. Tane Spasev, coordinator...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1 - An unnamed police officer from the Piedmont Police Department. The incident: A three-year-old boy urinated in his mother's front yard. The appropriate response: Asking the boy to do it...
View ArticleThrowing Punches with Theo Ehret
Sadly, this past May, photographer Theo Ehret passed away at the ripe age of 92. For almost 20 years, Theo was the staff photographer at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, a massive concrete sports arena...
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Delicious with Mish Episode Seven: Featuring Myths
This week I am joined by the lovely ladies, Lief Hall and Quinne Rodgers, from the demonic electronic duo Myths. Myths just came home from a tour with Grimes called “The Mythical Gymnastics Tour”...
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Jim Mora Is an Insane Maniac, Just Like His Dad
On Tuesday, when the Western world was focused on the results of the electoral college (not me: Vegas had Obama as a -400 favorite on Monday, so I figured it was a done deal and watched the Raptors...
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