Volume 20 Issue 12
Riding the Dirty Dog
Anyone who has ridden Greyhound or is familiar with the bus line's various subterranean monikers—"The Dirty Dog," "The Hell Hound"—can guess that it's often an unpleasant experience. But what if that unpleasant experience transported you around the...
Searching for Mecca
On May 8, 2013, Malcolm L. Shabazz and Miguel Suarez followed a couple of beautiful women into a seedy Mexico City bar called the Palace Club. Then something went terribly wrong: Malcolm's near lifeless body was discovered on the sidewalk, and within...
Guilt-Tripping
In 2010, a friend of mine started a travel magazine and asked if she could publish an article I had written about a Kashmiri tailor, during a month I spent living on a houseboat in Kashmir.
Stolen Puppy Photography
A few years ago, Florida-based photographer Mary Lundberg decided to spread some awareness about abused canines by crafting portraits of the adorable animals she met while working at a shelter. When she put them online, however, they got stolen by...
Stories of Common Hustles and Cons from Around the World
Do you ever get the feeling that everyone you meet is lying to you? Well, that’s because they probably are—the world is full of people who will lie, cheat, rob, and hustle, putting on elaborate cons just to snatch a few bucks.
We Spent Months Scamming a Scammer into Doing Our Work for Us
Scam-baiting is a form of internet vigilantism in which the vigilante poses as a potential victim to expose a scammer. The cover of the issue you're looking at is a trophy from the most elaborate bait I've ever been involved in.
Permanently Temporary
One morning this October, I listened as the roar of a Ford Econoline 15-person van shattered the predawn silence of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, the largest Mexican community in the Midwest. I had come there at an ungodly hour to witness the...
Employees of the Month
Adam Wilson is the author of the novel Flatscreen and the forthcoming short-story collection What's Important Is Feeling. We asked him if he remembered the first time he wrote a story that he liked.
Music Reviews
Snoop probably abandoned his last givable fuck back in 2005 when he propositioned the owner of a weed dispensary to install a waterslide, which explains why he hasn’t attempted to become LA’s Jay-Z. Instead Snoop seems content jumping paws-first into...