The Cultural Atrocities Issue
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Comics
Spring Break!
On my breaks I like to strap on these springs and bounce around the woods. Full story
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Skinema
Gimme a Fucking Break #4
Despite flunking out of six of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in New Jersey in less than three years, I never got to experience the crazy beach rompfest marinated in cheap beer that is spring break. Full story
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Sea DMT
God Molecule or Barnacle Repellent?
Writing almost exclusively about psychoactives, it is not unusual for me to be contacted by strangers who wish to report on the effects of various drugs. Most of these reports are uninteresting, but occasionally I receive something unusual. Full story
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Forget Sunshine
The Pacific Northwest Is Your New Spring Break Destination
The new hot spot where all the cool kids go to do keg stands on stacks of cock rings is the MOTHAFUCKIN’ PACIFIC NORTHWEST! And to prove it, we enlisted Pacific Northwest bands Pony Time, the Thermals, Tacocat, and Parenthetical Girls to share pictures from their dreary, rain-soa… Full story
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Killers of Serpents
The Python Challenge Is the Only Thing Keeping the Everglades from Becoming a Two-Million-Acre Snake Pit
Justin's mission is to kill Burmese pythons, which can grow as long as 20 feet. He is one of 1,400 people who have signed up to hunt, shoot, and decapitate as many of the snakes as they can in a month as part of Florida’s first-ever Python Challenge. Full story
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Zanesville
Nathaniel Rich was inspired to write “Zanesville” after hearing the real-life tale of Terry Thompson, who killed himself a few years ago after releasing 56 tigers, bears, lions, wolves, leopards, and monkeys from the animal refuge he ran in Ohio. All names and details in Nathanie… Full story
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DJ Wika Is Older and Cooler Than You
Wirginia Szmyt, aka DJ Wika, is a 74-year-old who can mix tracks on a pair of laptops better than most 20-year-olds with shitty attitudes who think they’ve mastered Serato. Wirginia’s been a fixture of the senior-citizen party scene in Warsaw for more than a decade. Full story
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Combover
Teenage Vacation Week
I’ve been thinking back on the first film I ever produced, 'Teenage Vacation Week.' I was also in it. I played Jim Francino: A low-down, dirty pimp who had a thing for naval outfits. He convinces these two teens who are on vacation for a week to do a bunch of low-down and dirty t… Full story
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Facedown in Chitral
Where Pakistani Muslims Go to Secretly Party
The region of Kafiristan stretches across portions of what is today Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Kalash people spurn Islamic law by drinking, taking drugs, and partying. Full story
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Bob Odenkirk’s Page
What're You Into?
A Spring Break Glossary of Sex Signals
Spring break is here! Anything goes and there's a partner for whatever floats yer boat. All you need to know are THE SIGNALS... What you're putting out there, what you can expect to get back. The Master Baiter is here to fill you in on the specifics of Spring Break 2013 Sex Symbo… Full story
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Home Entertainment
Photos by Richard Kern. Full story
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Behind the Debauchery
A 'Spring Breakers' Scrapbook
I’ve known Harmony Korine for many years; we’ve been friends through thick and thin, good times and bad. I feel like every element of 'Spring Breakers' was him creating an environment where people felt really open and safe—perhaps so they were comfortable going crazy (in a fun wa… Full story
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Partying with the Secret Police in Romania
Vacation options in communist Romania were pretty limited. When Labor Day, the big party holiday of the year, rolled around on May 1, many Romanians traveled to Costinesti, the only seaside resort for young people in the country. Full story
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How a Remote Laotian Village Became Asia's Cancun
Vang Vieng's main street is full of bars screening reruns of 'Friends' and 'Family Guy.' Bars offer whiskey-taurine cocktails served in beach buckets. It’s also easy to score opium, magic mushrooms, methamphetamines, and other substances that could get you thrown into a Laotian p… Full story
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Joe Francis Is Not the King of Spring Break
He Much Prefers the Title "Spring Break Historian"
Joe Francis is the 39-year-old guy responsible for those 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, which means he basically invented modern-day spring break. If you’ve ever had a good time in a sunny locale between the months of March and June, chances are Joe was directly responsible for it. Full story
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Beach Reach Wants You to Party With Jesus Christ
Christian missionaries are known for traveling to poor areas of our planet to provide aid and convert heathens. So for the past 30 years, Christians have been hanging out at spring break hotspots. Full story
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Can We Please?
Photos by Ben Ritter, styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos. Full story
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Li'l Thinks
Limited Chaos
I have two recurring dreams. One is none of your business until I make it your business and the other you’re going to hear about even if you don’t want to: It’s about a familiar-since-forever kind of weekend beach party cum bacchanal, a performance of chaos. Full story
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Let My People Go (Party)
For as little as $110 per day, you can forget your worries about Hamas and Hezbollah coming to get you and live it up with, as Israel Under 30’s website says, "2,000 smoking hot Israeli girls partying on the shores of the magestic [sic] Red Sea." Full story
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Meet the Bad Moms Club
Last summer, my mother created the Bad Moms Club. She goes to bars in South Beach and downtown Fort Lauderdale a few times a month to drink and dance with other single mothers. Like Destiny’s Child circa 1999, the club’s membership fluctuates, but two members have stayed consiste… Full story
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Reviews
Once while driving through the Virginias I stopped to poop and look for belt buckles. This junk shop with waffles had some postcards, and you’re damn right I bought the one that said virginia is for lovers Full story
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Welcome to the Twin Zone
Your Mind Is About to Be Double-Penetrated
The longest period of time the ATL Twins have spent apart has been six hours when Sidney was locked up for a DUI. Otherwise they are always together, with the exception of a few minutes here and there to shit, shave, and shower. Full story
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In There Like Swimwear
Photos by Vincent Perini and styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos. Full story
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Blacking Out Is the Other Universal Language
Wasted Vacation Stories from Across the Globe
People have been going on vacations to make bad decisions since antiquity, and that’s not going to change. So in the spirit of broadening our horizons, we’ve asked our international offices to dig up the strangest, booziest stories of vacations gone wrong—or right, depending on h… Full story
The Mare
A New Story by Mary Gaitskill
Toppling a Delicate World
Being Gay and South Asian In America
There's No Sex in Prison Showers
We Usually Wore Our Underwear
Try Not to Destroy Your Life
The First Time I Took Molly
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble
"Whitey" Isn't Very Popular in Boston
Interviews with Some of His Old Friends