Meet Louis Ortiz, America’s Most Convincing Barack Obama Impersonator
Imagine waking up one day to discover that you look so much like one of the world’s most famous faces and that there may be job opportunities and fame waiting for you—if you play your cards right....
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Bad Cop Blotter: The Dangers of Calling the Police on the Mentally Ill
Helmet-cam footage of Albuquerque, New Mexico, police confronting a mentally ill homeless man. The incident ended when the cops shot the man in the back and killed him. Screenshot via this YouTube...
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New York Progressive Party Kisses Andrew Cuomo's Ring
Andrew Cuomo got his way in the end. Photo via Flickr user Diana Robinson Going into this past weekend, when the labor-backed Working Families Party (WFP) held its convention to select candidates for...
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Meet the Nieratkos: Fancy Lad Is the Best Thing in Skateboarding Right Now
The modern skate video has never looked as polished as it does in 2014. Every dirtbag on a skateboard has an HD camera, and professional videographers are renting Reds and Phantoms, hoping to make the...
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Inside the Crumbling Cabarets of Cairo
The baladi bars are the dive bars of Cairo. They were once glamorous cabaret clubs; now they're run-down and seedy and far from bustling. Even so, they are the only place you can drink a beer outside...
View ArticleWackaging Is Your Food’s Attempt at Hitting on You
Wackaging Is Your Food’s Attempt at Hitting on You
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I Asked the Discoverer of a New Fish Why Its Anus Is on Its Head
Photo courtesy of Prosanta Chakrabarty The other day, when Ben Richmond over at Motherboard filed a story on a new kind of cave fish with its anus just behind its head, I had to know more. Coverage...
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Body of an American: The Russian Immigrant Who Conquered Porn
Photo by Matthew Leifheit If you believe the conventional wisdom about the porn industry—that it’s falling apart, that there’s no money in it, that the studios that once made high-quality films are...
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On Patrol with North London's Orthodox Jewish Crime Fighters
Shomrim members at the scene of a hit and run in Stamford Hill, North London It’s a wet Tuesday night in Stamford Hill and I’m on an impromptu stakeout with two Orthodox Jewish men wearing...
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Meet the Children and Pregnant Women Carrying Rocks All Day for Albania's...
Kids working in the piles of rock and chrome. Violeta Koci is 23, and her wheelbarrow just broke. For the rest of the day she will have to carry the bags of rock and chromite on her back. She is six...
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Cowboy Capitalists
Philippe Heilberg, the white guy, with soldiers loyal to the warlord General Paulino Matip Nhial. Photo by Jenn Warren Entrepreneurs tried to invest in Sudan but quickly handed over their pipe dreams...
View ArticleFacebook Takes Down Assad's Syrian Election Ads
Facebook Takes Down Assad's Syrian Election Ads
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Things Men Have Said to My Face Right After Seeing My Naked Body
The author Since the dawn of time, with the exception of maybe a few weeks there at the beginning, nakedness and shame have gone together like snakes and planes. Ear hair and bassists. Milk and...
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Even Though Toronto's Men's Rights Music Fest Was Cancelled, Equality Day...
Some CAFE volunteers, including Dr. Silvia Merdrano (left). All photos via the author. Remember the cloaked men's rights festival that was supposed to go down on the Toronto Islands last weekend, but...
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Look at the Ridiculous Shit the UK’s Billionaires Spend Their Cash On
Photo via the Bespoke Bureau The UK is now home to a total of 104 billionaires, which makes it the nation with the highest per-capita concentration of the ultra-rich in the world. Collectively, these...
View ArticleGround Zero: The Destruction of Daraa - Part 1
In March 2011, Syrian citizens began protesting oppressive government rule in the city of Daraa. Assadi government troops fired on the protesters, resulting in the beginning of the war in Syria. Three...
View ArticleGlasgow Is a Paradise
Although perhaps best known as the UK's most violent city, Glasgow also has the country's best music scene and some of its friendliest people—as long as you know where to look. The Glasgow I...
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Chicken Tagine Is the Soylent of Moroccan Tourist Cuisine
Chicken Tagine Is the Soylent of Moroccan Tourist Cuisine
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