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Neither Big nor Easy: New Orleans's Year in Murders
A man fires into a crowd of people in New Orleans in March. Photo via New Orleans police department. This year I joined the ranks of New Orleanians who have seen a dead body in the street. It was in...
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New York State of Mind: The Best New York Rap Photos of 2013
This has been a landmark year for New York hip-hop. The huns who were at the gates last year basically ran the game in 2013. A$AP Rocky dropped one the most commercially successful projects...
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Ann Coulter Thinks Kwanzaa Isn't a Holiday, but It's No Less Real Than Christmas
Photos by Nate Miller. In her latest column, conservative pundit Ann Coulter drags out everyone's favorite whipping boy of a holiday, Kwanzaa, for her annual verbal lynching. Ann, like many on the...
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The 2013 Girl Year in Review
Image via. From Girls to “Grown Woman” (and more important stuff, too, but I’m here for the peppermint gum and sparkly pencils of girl stuff, OK?), 2013 was a big year for girls. Here is the girl year...
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Brief Reviews of Every Movie I Saw in Theaters in 2013
I wasn’t a big fan of most of the movies I saw last year but that didn’t stop me from spending my hard earned money to sit a dark room and watch glorified TV with a bunch of strangers in 2013. I...
View ArticleHackers Leaked 4.6 Million Snapchat Usernames and Phone Numbers
Hackers Leaked 4.6 Million Snapchat Usernames and Phone Numbers
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Russia Is Installing Video Cameras in School Classrooms
Photo via LiveJournal. Imagine taking the SAT but instead of just the standard pressure of needing to succeed at this test or sacrifice your entire future, you now have video cameras and federal...
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I Went to a Jewish Singles Mixer
While perusing the hellish online dating site that is OkCupid, I found on their homepage an invite for an event called the Ball. The Ball describes itself as “LA's leading Jewish singles event,” which...
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Colorado's Legal Weed Edibles Are High on Sophistication
Marijuana plant via. Today is the historical marker for weeds first legal retail holiday. For the first time in U.S. history, anyone over the age of 21 in Washington state and Colorado can legally...
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Meet the Nieratkos: San Francisco’s Best Skate Shop FTC Turns 27
Photo by Tobin Yelland. Whenever I'm asked for advice on opening or running a successful skate shop, I always tell people, “Don’t do it if you want to get rich. Make sure you love skateboarding as...
View Article12 Good Commercials I Found by Accident
There is nothing more depressing than year-end lists. They represent everything that is terrible about the human race. I say “by accident” because it’s my job, my ongoing mission, to find the absolute...
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Sex Tapes, Riots, and Corruption: Things Aren't Great in Turkey
Violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police broke out in the heart of Istanbul this weekend, following a series of revelations about corruption within the Turkish government, months...
View ArticleA Google Patent Wants to Help You Be Funny on Facebook
A Google Patent Wants to Help You Be Funny on Facebook
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I Spent Six Months Inside Lebanon's Most Notorious Prison
"Khodr", a Syrian activist who spent six months in Lebanon's Roumieh prison Roumieh, Lebanon's most notorious prison, is not somewhere you want to find yourself. The facility regularly holds up to...
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I Just Bought Legal Weed in Colorado
The author and leading legalization proponent Mason Tvert smell victory in the air. “The media keeps describing what's starting today as an experiment,” Mason Tvert, co-director of the campaign to...
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Are Terrorists Intent on Destroying the Sochi Olympics?
The trolleybus that was bombed in Volgograd on Monday (Photo by Nikita Baryshev / Demotix) On Sunday, December 29, a bomb exploded in the entrance of the main train station in Volgograd, Russia, where...
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The Drone Survival Guide Explains How to Take Down Flying Robots
Unmanned US drone strikes killed hundreds of people people in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia last year as part of the never-ending war on terror, a war that apparently necessitates the continuous...
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The Space Lady Has Landed
After a few decades of performing—and living a life packed with more legitimately hardcore outsider experiences than any single person has a right to—a good amount of well-earned attention is finally...
View ArticlePlease, God, Let 2014 Be the Year We Retire the Word "Hipster"
Please, God, Let 2014 Be the Year We Retire the Word "Hipster"
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A Man Named Al Gore Is Running for Mayor of Toronto
Will Al "Captain Planet" Gore be Rob Ford's newest adversary? Rob Ford rumbled into 2014 today by arrogantly filing his papers for re-election in October, adding that he is the “best mayor” Toronto...
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