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Neither Big nor Easy: The Music Lover’s Guide to the New Orleans Elections
All photos of the January 17 rally against changes to New Orleans's noise ordinance by Chet Overall. In the past few years, even as the Louisiana state tourism board has adopted the slogan, “No...
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The Romanian Village Ravaged by a Plague of Earthquakes
Illustration by Michael Shaeffer Izvoarele is a small village of 300 homes in southern Romania that had a problem late last year: There was constantly an earthquake happening. Tremors that measured up...
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On Turning 30
Drawing by Molly Crabapple When I was 24, a curator I hoped to work with told me: “When you're 30, you'll be really ugly, and your boyfriend will leave you. But I'd still fuck you.” I turned 30 in...
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These Guys Build the World's Tallest Flagpoles for Dictators
The 427-foot tall Aqaba flagpole in Jordan Marc Summers and David Chambers have a pretty unusual job. Together, through their company Trident Support Corporation, they build the world's tallest...
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Elliott Scott Wants to Be Canada’s First Action Hero
The official "Elliot" trailer. Former karate champion and Nova Scotian Elliot Scott wants to be Canada's first action movie star, which, when you think about it, is ambitious, bizarre and hilarious...
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Enbridge's Line 9 is Cracked All Over
The Enbridge tower in downtown Edmonton. Photo via. Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline has thousands of “crack-like features” as the company euphemism goes. In the coming months, hundreds of sections of the...
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Mossless in America: Kathya Landeros
Mossless in America is a new column featuring interviews with documentary photographers. The series is produced in partnership with Mossless magazine, an experimental photography publication run by...
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Anarchists in São Paulo Rioted Against the World Cup This Weekend
Photos by Alice Martins About 2,500 people marched through the streets to the center of São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday to protest against the cost of hosting the World Cup. The sun was beating down and...
View ArticleDarby Milbrath's Sweetly Disturbing Drawings of Violence
Darby and I were born and raised in a haunted mansion in Victoria, BC and we spent our childhood playing in the surrounding overgrown gardens. We played make believe. A lot. Darby was really into...
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Los Angeles Is Miserable: Los Angeles Is Miserable: An Introduction
The second decade of the 21st century might be remembered as a golden age for the city of Los Angeles. In the past five years, America's second largest metropolis has seen record-low crime rates, a...
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Los Angeles Is Miserable: What Makes People in Los Angeles Miserable?
The LA2020 Commission report infamously claimed that almost 40 percent of the population of Los Angeles lives in "misery." They point to high poverty rates, long commute times, and local government’s...
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What the Hell Happened to Apple's Advertising?
Last week marked the 30th anniversary of “1984,” the Orwellian commercial that introduced the Mac computer to the world. It was a new level of bombast not just for tech advertising, but the whole damn...
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Los Angeles Is Miserable: Los Angeles Is Finally Starting to Run Out of Water
Image via In LA, we know our region cycles between El Niño years and drought years, but we don't have many bone-dry years. Right now is the driest the region has been in 163 years of formal record...
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A Wearable Book Feeds You Its Characters' Emotions As You Read
View ArticleThe Techno-Oppression of Ukraine Is Exactly Why Snowden Blew the Whistle
The Techno-Oppression of Ukraine Is Exactly Why Snowden Blew the Whistle
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Jason Schwartzman Talks About Playing a Shitty Guy in His New Movie
Elisabeth Moss and Jason Schwartzman in Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip. Jason Schwartzman, who is, in fact, an absolutely lovely man, stars as the titular, cantankerous young writer in Alex Ross...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Politicians Finally Realize They Can Stop Pretending to Hate...
Photo via Flickr user mardi_grass_2010 In a New Yorker profile published this month, President Obama admitted that marijuana was not that bad and the enforcement of anti-weed laws was skewed against...
View ArticleEvery Woman: Life as a Truck-Stop Stripper - Part 2
Everyone knows what charming places strip clubs can be, but perhaps there is no club so charming as one in Moriarty, New Mexico—a truck stop with taxidermy and the bras of former employees on the...
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