Doctors Defend Tongue-Mesh Surgery as a Safe Weight-Loss Technique
Going to the gym is hard. It requires a lot of effort and your 45-minute workout is the caloric equivalent of two pints of beer. It’s just a shitty and exhausting way of losing weight, and that’s why...
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Black Market glasses, vintage earrings, Northbound Leather shirt, American Apparel skirt Photography: Norman Wong (Kathi Z Management) Styling by Hazel Ong Styling Assistant: Chris Barbarossa Make Up...
View ArticleI Had to Stop Interviewing Rick Ross Because He Can't Handle Hard Questions
I Had to Stop Interviewing Rick Ross Because He Can't Handle Hard Questions
View ArticleValentine's Day Speed Dating on the Los Angeles Subway
Photos by Elizabeth Vasquez Valentine's Day would be pitiful and meaningless if it weren't for various companies trying to subtly promote their brand through get-in-love-quick schemes. This year, the...
View ArticleThe 8-Bit Olympics May Be More Fun Than the Real Games
The 8-Bit Olympics May Be More Fun Than the Real Games
View ArticleGetting Arrested Made Me a Better Person
Photo of Reinhardt College via While watching Diane Sawyer with my parents on January 11, 2011, the mugshot of a maniacal, bald, psychotic-looking guy was plastered across the screen. He looked like a...
View ArticleGetting Cuddled by a Professional
It’s 7:20 PM on Tuesday night, and I’m wandering the after-hours Wall Street wasteland looking for the apartment of “Ali C.,” where I have an appointment to cuddle. Like a massage, it’s $60 for 45...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: NEWTHINGS and AMO Had a Kickass Fashion Show
For this week's Mahal, I headed down to the grand opening of the Lower East Side AMO Studios art space and NEWTHINGS fashion installation. To showcase the gear and new space, a giant cocoon drifted...
View ArticleMy Intimate Dinner with Beyoncé
The Queen B via. In 1966, John Lennon infamously remarked that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,” resulting in death threats, protests, and public burnings of their records. But in 2014, it...
View ArticleIran Will Subject Female Soccer Players to Random Gender Tests
On February 3, the governing body for soccer in Iran—Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI)—declared that it would implement gender-verification procedures in the women’s league. To...
View ArticleWeediquette: T. Kid's College Graduation
Just before my senior year of college, it occurred to me that I might actually lose out pretty big in life if I didn’t graduate. I had spent much of the previous three years smoking blunts, taking...
View ArticleAll Bad News Considered: A Rogue Wave Killed a Man Through His Cruise Cabin...
We all live in echo-chambers of our own choosing, whether we're conservative, liberal, or anything in between. The news we get is the news we want, blowhard commentators and link curators delivering...
View ArticleLil' Thinks: The Me Gaze
Illustration by Penelope Gazin Girls and women (it feels so corny to consider girls and women as these separate classes of experience, right?) have, more so than guys and to our great benefit, style...
View ArticleFashion Comes to the Outback
Photo courtesy of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week The Australian bush is vast, desolate, and pretty much entirely disconnected from the world of high fashion. But there are traditions of handcrafts...
View ArticlePorn Is Helping Giant Pandas Return to the Wild
A panda in captivity engrossed in some panda porn. In late 2012, a young panda named Tao Tao was released into China’s Liziping Nature Reserve. Born in captivity, Tao Tao is now being billed as the...
View ArticleBret Easton Ellis Says We're All a Bunch of Cry-Babies
Bret Easton Ellis photographed at his home in LA by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete Bret Easton Ellis has only got to open his mouth for the cry-babies of the world to crawl out and start berating him for...
View ArticleWeird Scenes from New York Fashion Week
Fashion week is like a fierce comet covered in useless zippers and lapels that comes crashing down on New York City twice a year, bringing with it a horde of hungry models, irate designers, and...
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