Articles from Volume 18 Issue 11
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Make a Dumbful Noise
The Rise and Fall of Serbian Turbofolk
Remember at the beginning of the 90s when normal people got into Garth Brooks and "Time" magazine was running articles called things like "Has Country Gone City?" It was a tense moment. Full story
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Blobby Boys
Hey, look at this guy! Mr. Surfin' Safari! Full story
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Janet
I smell my blood. It smells like shit. If a vampire came along he'd probably turn the other way. Full story
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Miss Juniper's Dating Disasters - Part 2
Look gang! It's Juniper!! And she's on a date! Full story
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A Couple Threats
Somehow, someway, we persuaded Amelia Gray to give us a super-duper-early sneak peek at her first novel, "THREATS," in the form of two excerpted chapters. Full story
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Dark Souls
The great virtue of "Dark Souls" is the sense of ownership it bestows on those who master it. Full story
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Gypsy Paradise Lost
The Residents of Dale Farm Get the Boot
Dale Farm near Basildon, Essex, was the largest illegal Gypsy residence in Europe. Clearing it out wasn't easy. Full story
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Shroom Ban
Means More Magic Truffles for the Netherlands
In the bucolic pastures of Hazerswoude-Dorp lies a quaint Dutch farm that functions as the world's largest psilocybin-containing-truffle factory. Full story
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World Famous Street Artist Sheephead Farley
Aw shit...It's paparazzi! Full story
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Coon-Suit Riot
Snuggling Up with a Bunch of Feral Raccoons Is Easy and Fun
Despite what the fashion industry says, manufacturing a suit of feral raccoons is not overly complicated. Full story
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A$AP PLAYLI$T MANIFE$TED
Photos by Ben Ritter, Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Full story
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Foxy Knoxy: Free at Last
Photos by Richard Kern, Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Full story
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Employees of the Month
Tommy is our production manager, which means he oversees the printing of the very magazine you're holding in your grubby little paws. Full story
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Front of the Book
In the early 90s a group of ambitious and wildly hand-gesturing Northern Italians said vaffanculo to Rome's centralized government and formed Lega Nord (Northern League). Full story
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The Death of Zé Cláudio and Maria
If a Bunch of Rainforest Activists Get Murdered in the Amazon, Does It Make Anyone Give a Shit?
The scene is like something out of a Sergio Leone movie. Zé Cláudio and his wife, Maria, enter a small wooden bar off a dirt road. Full story
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Babes on Wheels
Photos by Patrick O'Dell, Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Full story
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Ordure-à-Porter
Misha Koptev Is the World’s Best Trash Tailor
Synchrodogs is the collaborative moniker used by Ukrainian photographers Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven, an adorable couple who say they are "dating hard". Full story
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The Gayest Story Ever Told
Why Did the ‘New Yorker’ Reject This R. Crumb Cover?
The cardboard placeholder featured a color comic by R. Crumb depicting a drag queen and king holding hands in front of a marriage-license clerk. Full story
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What Wa$ It All About?
The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park are more of a long-term affair than initially planned. Weeks passed, crowds came and went, signs were waved, rested, repainted, then rewaved. Full story
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False Vacuum Decay
A false vacuum is a region of space that appears to be totally stable, but in actuality could (theoretically) collapse at any moment and turn the vacuum inhabitants (us) into clouds of nonstandard particles in the time it takes for you to finish this sente... Full story
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Red Squirrel Orphans
You know how squirrels stand all hunched over a nut, tightly grasping it with their tiny claws and then shoving it into their mouths so their cheeks get all puffed? Everyone loves that. Full story
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Halloween XXX Porn Parody
For starters, I would've hoped that a porno remake of Halloween would've at least had the decency to incorporate the word wiener into the title. Full story
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Records
A debut solo album by David Lynch could have been anything. It could have been 74 minutes of him scatting about meditation and playing drums on a Folgers Coffee can. Full story
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Mike Judge Is My Xanax
Or Whatever People Take to Not Hate Everything All the Time
I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for Mike Judge. Full story
Noisey
Soko's "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow" (NSFW)
Motherboard
What the Anti-Internet Rally Was All About
The Creators Project
Why Moog Was the Man
Motherboard
Ye Olde Vibrators
The Creators Project
Ai Weiwei Teams Up with Herzog & de Meuron
Noisey
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