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Jason Banker and Elijah Wood on ‘Toad Road’
Toad Road is a new film directed and produced by Jason Banker that simultaneously expands the parameters of what documentary filmmaking can be and blurs the lines between that format and traditional...
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Watch the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Perform on Top of the Empire State Building in Their New Video, "Despair"
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Meeting Hardcore Drug Users at a Four-Star Hotel in Lithuania
I’m at the four-star Radisson Hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, for one of the world’s most cosmopolitan gatherings of former and current drug users. There are heroin-injectors from the slums of...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Yet Another "Justified" Police Shooting
Kendrec McDade was killed by the police last year partly as a result of a false report to 911, but no one is getting punished for his death. Welcome to Bad Cop Blotter, our weekly news roundup that...
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Devendra Banhart Is Not Hungry
Photos by Nate Miller The Chateau Marmont hotel has famously served as a welcome respite for celebrities looking to avoid the all-seeing eyes of the public. Whether it’s Lindsay Lohan ducking from the...
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I Went to an Abandoned Nazi Ranch
Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete My co-workers are always going to exotic places, doing dangerous things. I, on the other hand, rarely leave my desk. I don’t like heights, going swimming makes me...
View ArticleHanging Out with Anti-Enbridge Protesters in Hamilton
Photos by Nicky Young. On Thursday afternoon, news broke that a crew of activists had shut down construction on Enbridge’s Line 9 crude oil pipeline in Hamilton by camping out on the site and locking...
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Please Kill Me: Among the War Pigs
Nuremberg's Zeppelinfeld. Image via It’s amazing to me how many real-life Spinal Tap moments I’ve had. This always leads me to ask myself, “Did that really happen, or was I so fucked up that I just...
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Edward Snowden Is a Gay Alien
Not long after the existence of the NSA's massive PRISM surveillance program leaked, Snowden truthers began speculating on the leaker's identity. Was the whistleblower still an NSA agent? Was it all...
View ArticleMore Live Stream Coverage of the São Paulo Protests
For the past few weeks the bus-fare protests in Brazil have been raging. Last week, the government announced they would reduce fare to its original rate in an attempt to quell the outrage. Members of...
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Could the Turkish Uprising Be a Breakthrough for the Country's Kurds?
Emre Elmekci, a Kurdish activist, sits on a barricade in a road leading to Taksim Square during clashes with the Turkish police. The fallout from the protests in Turkey isn't all bad. Unthinkable...
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Everybody Hates the New Black Panther Party
Members of the New Black Panther Party at a rally in Trenton, New Jersey. Photo by Bob Jagendorf via After being leaned on by his country’s constitutional courts, President Robert Mugabe finally said...
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Chatting with the Founder of the Polaris Prize
Steve Jordan with a headset on. The headset is probably playing a Drake/Arcade Fire mashup. via CBC Radio 3. When the Polaris Prize began in 2006, its long list used to read like a who’s who of...
View ArticleImagining 'Seinfeld' on Molly While on Molly with @Seinfeld2000
Imagining 'Seinfeld' on Molly While on Molly with @Seinfeld2000
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Harvey Moon's Drawing Machines
How does a cricket become an artist? Try placing it in one of Harvey Moon's drawing machines where its movements will be tracked by a camera and turned into original works of art. Bugs Draw for Me,...
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Germany's Blood-Drenched Debt Could Save Greece's Economy
Greek men murdered by German paratroopers in Kondomari, Crete in 1941. (Image via) In early April of 1941, the German army defeated Greek forces along the country's northern front. Where Greece had...
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Neither Big nor Easy: Odoms and Ballzack Are Kings of the Wank
Photo by Megan Roniger Some New Orleans artists travel far and wide, enhancing the city’s well-deserved rep as a incubator of innovative music, but other acts achieve fame and pack rooms without ever...
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What Have We Learned from the Bar Ban in Parkdale?
A vandalized version of Wrongbar's "don't be an idiot while you're at our awesome establishment" sign. via Flickr. Last October, the perpetually up-and-coming Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale (also...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Brand-Funded Films and the Trailer for 'La Passione'
I have been working on some projects with Agyness Deyn for a while. We had previously collaborated on a shoot for Elle where she and Natalia Bonifacci had dressed up like James Dean and Sal Mineo and...
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Recognizing Your Ex-Girlfriend in Porn
Photo by Blair Hopkins According to Cosmopolitan magazine, watching porn together can be a great way to spice up your sex life. I've found watching pornography with girls to be a mixed experience, at...
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