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Adam Harvey Wants to Cloak You from Drones
Adam Harvey made a drone-proof burqa. The New York-based artist, in collaboration with New York designer Johanna Bloomfield, created a line called Stealth Wear that offers garments created from...
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Question of the Day: Should Heavily Tattooed People Be Given Good Jobs?
Like smoking or drunkenly starting fights outside of bars, tattoos have that inexplicable ability to make anyone who has them look incredibly cool to strangers. That's about as far as it goes on the...
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Make Sure You’re Alive to Collect
Foreground: Debra enlisted in the US Army in 1969 as a second lieutenant. In late 1971, after she had been promoted to captain, she received a letter stating she would not be retained for active duty....
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Back in Taiwan - Part 2
In this episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie's trip to Taiwan brings him to the soy milk district, Yung Ho Doujiang, for a Taiwanese breakfast feast. Then he's off to Normal University for a one-man...
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Nicki Minaj Plus a Gay Bear Equals Chicago's The Big Dipper
There is a Big Dipper Sound, as ascribed by the artist himself in the pornographically droll and ebola infectious song "Drip Drop." In an Andersonville walk up on Chicago's North Side, one can see it...
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How the Super Bowl Screws New Orleans
Sam Scandaliato, the captain of the Krewe of Pontchartrain (pictured here in a Saints jacket), estimates his group has lost $14,000 because the Super Bowl forced the city to reschedule planned...
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Let’s Face It
“It isn’t enough to refuse the Legion of Honor. The important thing is never to have deserved it.” (Erik Satie or Edgar Varese, I’m not sure which.) This has nothing to do with anything. But:...
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Immigrants Are Being Stabbed to Death on the Streets of Athens
"I urge you to stop racism. At last, you have to realize that we are human beings and we are immigrant workers. We want justice," shouts Javed Aslam, the Pakistani president of the Union of Immigrant...
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Meet the New President, Same as the Old President
Four years ago, if you were a particularly hokey newspaper columnist with a deadline, you might have remarked upon the symmetry of Martin Luther King Day being so close to Barack Obama’s inauguration....
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From “Necrophilia” to the “Pain Olympics,” Google Knows What You Search For
Note: the findings in this piece were accurate at the end of 2012. If you search Google Trends right now, at this very second, you might find different results. For example, as of January 21, 2013,...
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Why I Would Bone Harry Styles and What It Says About Boy Band Worship - Trailer
Sometimes, I wish I could be One Direction’s Harry Styles, just for one day. Harry Styles: currently the most prominent symbol of teenage lust. I have no desire to find out what it’s like to be Katy...
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Television’s Last President
Barack Obama was inaugurated to his second term as U.S. President today, and his inaugural address was on televisions everywhere. Maybe you got a chance to see it. There was some talking, and Michelle...
View ArticleArt Talk: Ghost of a Dream
Ghost of a Dream is the collaboration of sculptor Lauren Was and painter Adam Eckstrom. Focusing on installation, sculpture, and collage, the married couple have had numerous solo and group shows...
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Living the American Dream in the West Bank
In many people’s imaginations, Jewish settlers in the West Bank are bearded, M16-toting fundamentalists living in hilltop trailers overrun with barefoot women and children. And sometimes that’s the...
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Chunklet to Go Go : Bringing in the String Section with Mars' Mark Cunningham
Mars never made a bad album. In fact, during its fleeting, 36-month lifespan, the NYC no wave combo never made any kind of album. Having left behind a debut single and four expressionistic...
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My Dad Told Me a Black Man Would Never Be President
The biggest fight I ever had with my dad was over whether or not America could elect a black president. It was in the mid-2000s and I was about 17, serving out my last few years at a nearly all-white...
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Is This the Century of Africa's Rise?
For decades, the dominant African narrative in the media was of famine, war, and disease. Recently, in light of a perceived economic upturn and a relative reduction in famine and disease across most...
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll: Fishy Crotch, LSD, and Rare Times
SEX - SCENT OF A VAGINA Slicing through lower Manhattan's midsection during my frequent walk from my Soho office to my boner-friend's apartment in Chinatown, I cross many multi-cultural sensory...
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Pen Pals: Rappin' Wif Rockbottom
Editor’s note: This is a work of fiction written in the voice of RockBottom, a character invented by Bert Burykill, who is himself a pseudonym of a guy who has spent time in a variety of prisons....
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Anne Carson Vs. George Saunders
The first quarter of 2013 sees new works by two of the most highly regarded North American authors. George Saunders’s Tenth of December, a collection of stories published over the last five years, and...
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