Articles from Volume 19 Issue 1
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The Mungiki, the Taliban, and Me
Getting to Know Kenya’s Most Dangerous Gangsters
The Mungiki are not only Kenya's most violent and notorious mafia/cult/political movement, they might be the largest gang in the world. Full story
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Unveiled
Inside the Homes and Lives of Saudi Women
In Saudi Arabia, I was invited into a world rarely visited by outsiders--one that is considered off-limits and impenetrable--to lift the abaya and niqab and meet the women underneath. Full story
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Going Down with the Brown
Milk, Milk, Lemonade, Around the Corner Fudge Will Murder You
Crap has already declared war, and it's winning. Behold just a few of the innumerable examples of how shit can kill. Full story
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The Beverly Douchebillies
Do not look directly into the swamp rat's freshly-douched vagina. Full story
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Schizophrenia Not Caught on Tape
The Way Hollywood Portrays Mental Illness Is Just Crazy
To get a read on how accurate Hollywood's portrayal of mental illness is, I asked four gentlemen diagnosed with schizoaffective disorders to watch some films that feature "crazy" characters. Full story
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The Last Exorcist
Satan Is Don Gabriele Amorth’s Sniveling Bitch
In his book, Don claims "the devil himself, speaking through a possessed woman, threatened to disembowel me in my sleep." Full story
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Cambodian Couture
It’s Literally to Die For
The Wild West of the East wants to be known for something other than mass murder and landmarks made of human skulls. That's why in November Cambodia hosted its first-ever fashion week. Full story
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Records
And this is the way music should sound. Like the hottest, toughest girl drove you somewhere on her three-wheeler and now you're getting slow-fucked by a nitrous-filled dildo. Full story
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Carbon Copies
Monette and Mady Are the Swingingest Twins in Paris
Identical twins always attract a peculiar type of attention, but these gals were walking mirrors. Their uniformity was uncanny. Full story
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Biking Booth’s Escape Route
Retracing the Long-Cold Tracks of Lincoln’s Assassin
After slaying Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth spent 12 days on the lam in a strange and tragic odyssey. To ever truly understand him, I'd have to literally retrace his footsteps. Full story
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The Wonderful Asshole
Gary Indiana Won’t Grease It Up for Anyone
I never really thought I'd end up writing anything about Gary Indiana; I just wanted to meet him. Full story
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Three Chapters from The Loom of Ruin
It's with great pride that we present to you three chapters from Sam McPheeters' first novel about a gas-station owner named Trang Yang, who has a fondness for violence. Full story
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It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To
Photos by Francesco Nazardo, stylist: Ian Bradley. Full story
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Il-Sung Songs
Photos by Ben Ritter, Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Full story
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Baby Wombat Orphans
We whipped out this photo of a wombat and our associate editor Harry was paralyzed in an alternating laugh/awwww/laugh/awwww stupor for three whole minutes. Full story
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Topological Matter in Optical Lattices
This month's Learnin' Corner is an explanation of topological matter in optical lattices by University of Pittsburgh associate professor of physics W. Vincent Liu. Full story
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No Warning 6: The Unfair Advantage
If you're going to watch only one hardcore, anal-raping, lesbian-wrestling porno this year, make it "No Warning 6." The hardcore is harder! The anal is more anally! Full story
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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
"Revelations" is a decrepit continuation of a once-captivating franchise, which is appropriate given that it's about the aging of its two protagonists, Ezio and Altaïr. Full story
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Front of the book
We live in contentious, troubled times: Millions are out of work, protestors fill the streets of practically every major city, the global financial system is in ruins, and just about everyone feels disenfranchised Full story
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Peeling Oniontown
Unraveling the Many Layers of New York’s Most Reclusive—and Feared—Community
There are certain places that seem forsaken. Afghanistan is one. Another lies outside the bucolic little Hudson Valley hamlet of Dover Plains. It's a place called Oniontown. Full story
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A Few from ‘Stories’
Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol transforms everyday interactions into moody compositions that make everything he shoots look like a snapshot from some harrowing WWII tale. Full story
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If You Build It, They Will Cum
Sexual Healing and Kinky Community Outreach with the Impropriety Society
The Impropriety Society's parties started as theatrical sex-themed fund-raising events, but as they evolved, actual fucking came to the fore providing a place for a variety of kinky persuasions. Full story
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Employees of the Month
We asked Paige to write us a short bio, and this is what she sent: "My name is Paige Aarhus and I am a freelance writer and photographer in Africa. Full story
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Bob Odenkirk’s Page
Clearing the Park Full story
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Hello Again, Asshole
Fucking Medicine Man. Fucking dumb old hippie buzzard! Telling me shit I could have told myself 100 times. Full story
Noisey
Team Ghost's Cold-Sober Electronica
Motherboard
The World's Largest "Internship" Program
The Creators Project
David “Fingers” Haynes: Master of the Drum Pad
Motherboard
Godspeed, Space Monkeys
The Creators Project
An Appreciation of William Gibson
Noisey
Veronica Falls Have Real Jobs