HTC Downtown Sound: Renting Videos and Devouring Donairs with Ryan Hemsworth
Our pal Ryan Hemsworth has been torching the internet with a figurative flamethrower made of great remixes, bootlegs, refixes, mash-ups, and whatever else people like him do to transform a MP3 file...
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A Few Impressions: ‘American Psycho’: Ten Years Later/Twenty Years Later
Image by Courtney Nicholas I listened to the American Psycho audiobook recently. It was released in 2011 and is narrated by Pablo Schreiber, who performs his task quite well. He doesn’t clown it up,...
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Neither Big nor Easy: On the Death of a Dog I Should Have Loved Better
All photos courtesy of the author When I am depressed I must write. But I am surprised to find myself depressed upon the death of my dog this past Sunday during our fishing trip on Lake Pontchartain....
View ArticleSilicon Valley's Next Disruption: Floating, Autonomous City-States
Silicon Valley's Next Disruption: Floating, Autonomous City-States
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Gold Miners Are Exhuming and Trafficking Corpses in Romania
Mounds of soil where graves have been exhumed are now a common sight in Roșia Montană. Since 2004, the Romanian Roșia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC) has been illegally trafficking corpses in Roșia...
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Calgary Is Actually Nice
Photos by the author aka Ms. "I Only Figured Out Calgary Was Cool Last Week." The original version of this article contained some inaccuracies about the land of Calgary that have since been corrected....
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Michael Douglas Has No Control Over His Mouth
Photo via Flickr User Joella Marano I say a lot of things I don’t actually mean to say. When I let my mouth run, I find myself implying that I can do 100 push-ups, that my favorite movie is “something...
View ArticleHere's Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's 'Kismet' Mixtape
Here's Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's 'Kismet' Mixtape
View ArticleFrom Tahrir to Occupy to Istanbul: An Anatomy of Current and Future Protest
From Tahrir to Occupy to Istanbul: An Anatomy of Current and Future Protest
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Tom Bianchi Photographed His Gay Paradise Before It Disappeared Forever
Close your eyes for a second and imagine you are at the party of your dreams. Everyone you love and are infatuated with is around you, the music you loved in your teens is playing and bad trips are...
View ArticleWild Things: The $wiftest Pigeon - Part 1
What is the sound of 1 million yuan flapping? While most nouveau riche happily spend their new money on shit the old money has already deemed acceptable, China's spoiled young princelings aren't...
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The Cops Destroyed My Friend's Business Because He Made a Porn Site for the...
My friend Adam was, until recently, making a living as a self-employed web designer in South Carolina. He'd been doing it for a couple of years, and had built sites for various small organizations...
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Fort McMurray Is Sponsored by Oil
Beautiful Shell Place. Coming soon!! As far as most outsiders are concerned, the oil sands are ground zero for one of the world’s most destructive industrial projects, and the latest stop for Canada’s...
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Adrian Raine Reckons He Can Predict if You'll Be a Criminal
Dr Adrian Raine. (Photo courtesy of the University of Southern Carolina.) The future that psychologist Dr Adrian Raine predicts – from a civil liberties perspective, at least – falls somewhere between...
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Filthy Lucre
When you fly Virgin Upper Class out of Heathrow, you go through a separate set of airport security. With a ticket that costs $4,000 round-trip, you swipe your boarding pass, go up a sleek private...
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VICE Premiere: Pimp Rapper 100s Dropped a Video for "1999"
It doesn't seem that hard out here for a pimp, at least when you tune into a 100s music video. The Cali-bred MC, who we introduced to you back in October of last year, has sharpened up his...
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Fleapit: The Movie
An unaccountably terrorizing dream in which I have overstayed my welcome in somebody’s sleek, well-ordered, poshy loft, in what appears to be the Chelsea Hotel, sacred fleapit of Bohemia, though the...
View ArticleMotherboard: High Country - Part 2
David Bienenstock doesn't just smoke weed. He is weed. Cannabis is his mantra, his well-being and raison d'être. Hang around the guy long enough and by mere association complete strangers will start...
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Here’s Why the Rob Ford Scandal Is Just Like The Wire
The allegation that a crew of drug dealers is holding on to a video of Rob Ford smoking crack has resulted in a prolonged and sad controversy in the Kingdom of Toronto. Our city’s once triumphant...
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If Men Need a 21st-Century Role Model, How About Jesus Christ?
Photo via DeviantArt user =lammssu72 These days, most of my role models are cool, fearless artists (which is what I want to be), many of whom happen to be women. You can see one of my few male role...
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