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  • Here Is What the Urban Dictionary Looks Like on Google Images

    Earlier this year London-based artist Ben West designed a Google Images dictionary titled, simply, "Google." The idea behind the 1,200-plus-page book was simple: Design some software to select and save the first Google Images result for every single word in the Oxford English Dictionary, then print it in a big, beautiful book. Motherboard decided to try something similar with the Urban Dictionary. Full story

    2013 Jan 18 Austin Considine Tech
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  • John Rechy

    John Rechy’s City of Night remains, almost 50 years later, the essential novel of the neon-drowned world of rough-trade hustlers, 24-7 drag queens, and the gentlemen who crave them. Full story

    2010 Dec 1 Steve Lafreniere, Terry Richardson Stuff
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  • Crowded Chongqing

    Chongqing, sitting at the junction of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, is home to more than 30 million people. It is not only one of the most crowded cities in the world but also the fastest growing. Full story

    2008 Jul 1 Joost Pauwaert, Stephanie Van De Velde Photo
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  • Do It!

    UK urban music is in the best state it's been in for a decade. Ten-year-old girls are throwing their Bratz dolls out the window and breakdancing in their wheelie shoes when a bassline tune comes on daytime radio. Full story

    2008 Mar 1 Prancehall Music
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