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Happiness

I suppose it was in Korea where I learned to be alone, which was why during the second year at home, I went to the retreat house to return to aloneness there. The house was so cold on the first night that the bottle of olive oil in the kitchen cabinet congealed. Then came that incredible sadness again, swelling out of me and into the sun.

East End Girls

Photos by Rick Indeo. Styled by Charlie Indeo.

What to Wear to Your Album Release Party

It’s summertime and you know what thay means: album release parties! All the cool kids are trying new things and premiering their music in fun crazy new ways. And Noisey is here to make sure you look the part!

Jun 19 2013 Skinny Friedman and Meaghan Garvey Noisey

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Die Antwoord's New Video for "Cookie Thumper!" Will Probably Creep You Out

Ninja, the male half of our favorite South African rap-rave crew, just directed a video for their new single, "Cookie Thumper!" If you've ever wanted to see Yo-Landi, the female half, pee her pants, this is your chance.

Jun 18 2013 Noisey Staff Music

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A Few Impressions

'Man of Steel': The Super Movie

Last week I was asked to attend the London Premiere of Man of Steel, so after working on my forthcoming little thriller at Pinewood studios, I went over to Leicester Square to take in the latest filmic take on The Superhero.

Don't Insult the Iron Sheik, Bubba

The Legend on His Life, Hulk Hogan, and the Documentary Being Made About Him

"I WORK OVER 50 YEARS IN THE SHOW BUSINESS AND I CAN TELL WHOEVER I WANT TO GO FUCK THEMSELVES. ANYBODY WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW THEY ARE WORLD CLASS I LET THEM KNOW IF THEY ARE OR THEY ARE NOT."

Molly Crabapple Sent Us Sketches from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Pretrial Hearings at Gitmo

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s military commission at Guantanamo Bay is a guarded affair. It will be the trial of the century, the first attempt at bringing a high-level war-on-terror detainee to justice. These are the only visuals of the pretrial hearings that exist other than the drawings by the official courtroom sketch artist. There's more from Molly to come.

Fringes

Cowboy Capitalists - Part 1

For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. In 2011 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless checkpoints and dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical paperwork and regulations.

Costa Rican Drug Addicts Are Killing Turtles and Conservationists

At the end of last month, Costa Rica witnessed its first turtle-conservationist murder. On the evening of May 30, Jairo Mora Sandoval and four other conservationists were abducted while carrying out their checks on Moin Beach near Limon, a city on the east coast of the country. While the four others were tied up and left in a house, Sandoval was beaten to death.

The Ocean Is Melting Antarctica

We used to think Antarctica lost most of its mass from calving glaciers. Now we know it's melting from the bottom up. That's trouble for obvious reasons. We'd all rather keep that water frozen in the icy interior of the world's southernmost continent than loose it into our already fast-rising oceans.

Jun 18 2013 Brian Merchant Motherboard

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A Teacher and Her Student

Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble

Marilynne Robinson was my fourth and final workshop instructor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After receiving my MFA this May, I left Iowa believing that there’s no good way to be taught how to write, to tell a story. But there is also no denying that Marilynne has made me a better writer.

Talking to the Bulldozer-Hijacking Soccer Fans About Their Role in the Turkish Uprising

On the night of June 2—the third day of an out-and-out war between police and protesters—Çarşı members hotwired a bulldozer that had been left at the construction site outside Beşiktaş's Inönü Stadium and used it to push the police water-cannon trucks away from their home turf.

Is the Mexican Government Failing to Protect Journalists?

Anabel Hernandez Thinks So, and Fears for Her Life

Anabel Hernandez has been exposing corruption at the highest levels of Mexican law enforcement since 2008 despite numerous threats against her and her family. I talked to her about the Mexican government's lack of effort to protect journalists like her.

Nicaragua's $40 Billion Canal Would Fulfill Two Centuries of Ambition

Nicaragua's 200-year-old plans to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are back on the table. The National Assembly has reportedly given a Hong Kong-based company a 50-year concession to investigate, design, and potentially build the Inter-Ocean Nicaragua Canal. It's an audacious plan and was first proposed by Napoleon III in the early 1800s.

Jun 17 2013 Mat McDermott Tech

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The Totally Unnecessary DJs of E3

Perhaps playing loud dance music inside a giant convention center where everyone else is also playing loud dance music and no one is there to dance is a waste of time. I don't need the "bass to drop" while I'm waiting in line to see the new XBox or to use the bathroom, thank you very much.