ATLAS HOODS
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Abandoned Estonian Prisons Are a Little Slice of Hell
Back in 1820, Russian Tzar Nicholas I built a massive prison on the Baltic coast just outside of Tallinn, Estonia, which was so good at making prisoners cower remorsefully before the might of the hegemony, that it remained in commission right up until 2004—the same year Facebook was launched. Full story
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Atlas Hoods: Tibet's Sad Beauty Pageant
What do you do when people keep telling you your country's not a real country? Full story
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Iceland's Most Poetic Murderer
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The Third Korea
Most people get it now that Korea is split in two: one half is evil while the other makes great flat screen TVs. Full story
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Botswana's Cowboy Metalheads
Love it or hate it, when most people think of metal, they think of white dudes. Even if metal was born from the blues and there are growing scenes in places like Indonesia and Peru. Full story
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The Croatian Tattooed Grandma Cult
That little girl in the middle there is Tea Turalija. She grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina surrounded by tattooed women. Every day she would plant kisses on her great grandmother's hands, thinking nothing of the etchings on her arms. Full story
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Tsunami Ground Zero
I used to live out in Japan and have a friend in Sendai who was caught up in the mind-blowing destruction caused by last week's earthquake. When she got in touch to let me know she was safe, she pointed me in the direction of Aika and Jesse Ortiz. Full story
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Venezuela's Skyscraper Slum
My uncle Gabriel works in a busy modern office in the heart of Caracas’ financial district. But when he goes to take a leak in one of the men’s rooms on the top floor, he doesn’t get to look out and survey the dull urbanity that surrounds other skyscrapers across the world… Full story
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The Gangster Preacher
South African preacher Albern Martins really loves a good shout. He has the common preacher habit of standing two inches from your earhole and booming out long, elliptical speeches that encompass God, forgiveness, repentance, gangsters he has known and loved, Muslim vigilante gro… Full story
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The Country That Doesn't Exist
Out on the fringes of the former USSR, in one little pocket of Eastern Europe, the trauma of the Soviet Empire's collapse has never quite been shaken off. Full story
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Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centers'
How an anti-drug cult from the 60s has evolved into a billion-dollar industry.
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Amy’s Baking Company's Grand Reopening Nearly Bored Me to Death
It was kinda like real life TV, but nothing was happening.
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Watch Japanther's Kaleidoscopic New Video for "Stolen Flowers"
It's really good.
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VICE News: Triple Hate - Part 1
A documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, and the Crips.
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The Worst Restaurant in the World
A night at the Jack in the Box of the Damned.
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Alexis Neiers’s Pretty Wild Road to Recovery
She robbed celebrities, abused drugs, inspired a movie, and now she's clean.
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Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #88
Nobuyoshi Araki's new photo show is the prettiest thing in Jersey.
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Munchies: Hatos Bar
We all got suitably wasted before cooking up some barbecue.
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Some Guys on Reddit Claim Quitting Porn Is Good for Your Complexion
I took the 30-day challenge.
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Fightland: Pakistan - Part 2
Pakistani MMA got its start in an apart
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Watch Japanther's Kaleidoscopic New Video for "Stolen Flowers"
It's really good.
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Australian Scientists Think We Can Grow Our Limbs Back Like Salamanders
I am a human, so if my limbs fall off, they stay off. This is unfortunate.
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Juggalos Are OK, Cupid
Don’t be a Tumblr asshole to people trying to find love.
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Amy’s Baking Company's Grand Reopening Nearly Bored Me to Death
It was kinda like real life TV, but nothing was happening.
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Rave and Hardcore YouTube Comments Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
They're genuinely some of the most beautiful things I've ever read.
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The Loneliness of the Village at the End of the World
Niaqornat's residents fight alcoholism and suicide as their village sinks into the Arctic.
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Alexis Neiers’s Pretty Wild Road to Recovery
She robbed celebrities, abused drugs, inspired a movie, and now she's clean.
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Get Rich or High Trying
The smart money is increasingly looking to marijuana as the nation's biggest new business.
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I Don't Have the Stones to Be a Crime Reporter
I tried covering the Tia Sharp case but just felt guilty the whole time.
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Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centers'
How an anti-drug cult from the 60s has evolved into a billion-dollar industry.
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Ghost Wave - "Here She Comes"
Ghost Wave's New Video is Great, Unless you Hate Art and Birds
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Channelling Wheatgrass and LSD with King Khan & BBQ
Getting Old and Drinking Piss
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Some Guys on Reddit Claim Quitting Porn Is Good for Your Complexion
I took the 30-day challenge.
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I'm Hunting Down the Fat Fetishist Who Has My Stolen Laptop
He likes big ladies and lives in a maisonette.
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Get Rich or High Trying
The smart money is increasingly looking to marijuana as the nation's biggest new business.
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My Week with Hungary's Far Right
Hungarian nationalists throw beer at people and blame Jews and Gypsies for all their problems.
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Munchies: The Marrow
He yelled a lot while juicing rhubarbs.
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Fightland Show: Pakistan - Part 1
Fightland travels to Lahore to meet Bashir Ahmad.
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Art Talk: Matt Mignanelli
A chat about his work, life, and strong American work ethic.
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VICE News: Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor
A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor.
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VICE News: Triple Hate - Part 1
A documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, and the Crips.
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Did I Discover YelaWolf?
This. CD. It looked like… I really can’t even explain the levels of wrong this thing was.
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Did a Murderer Just Give Himself Away on Yelp?
It seems like he might have done.
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Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei: Taipei Signs
Tao shows us some of his favorite signs around Taipei.
Thought and Memory
New Fiction by Ed Park 
Malaysian Neo-Nazis
Fighting for a Pure Malay Race 
The Strongest Dwarf in New Jersey
Remembering My Tormentor 
Gay Men and Their Misogyny Problem
It's Not Cute Anymore 
Triple Hate - Part 1
The KKK vs. the Crips vs. Memphis City Council 
Saudi Arabia's Feminist Revolution
It's Not Happening 
