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I Don't Have the Stones to Be a Crime Reporter

Last summer, I filed a story about a 12-year-old girl from London who'd failed to return home one Friday. People go missing all the time, so, although obviously sad, it was nothing that remarkable. In the days that followed, however, Tia Sharp's disappearance became England's most reported-upon news story. Full story

Ghost Wave - "Here She Comes"

Ghost Wave's New Video is Great, Unless you Hate Art and Bird. Full story

Channelling Wheatgrass and LSD with King Khan & BBQ

Mark Sultan shared his potent thoughts on brotherhood, getting old, and how no one drinks piss at his shows anymore. Full story

Some Guys on Reddit Claim Quitting Porn Is Good for Your Complexion

According to 60,000 the "fapstonauts" online, abstaining from self-pleasure can result in clear skin, improved confidence, and deeper personal relationships. I signed up for a 30 day trial. Full story

Reggie Watts Has a New Show

The comic musician (or musical comedian) Reggie Watts just started a new show called "The Social Music Experiment" on his YouTube channel, Jash. For some reason we were invited on set to see firsthand how the whole thing is made. Full story

Jodorowsky's 'Dune' Would Have Been More Insane Than You Can Even Imagine

In 1974, Alejandro Jodorowsky set about turning the classic sci-fi novel 'Dune' into a major motion picture. He recruited Orson Welles, Pink Floyd, H. R. Giger, David Carradine, Salvador Dali, and Mick Jagger for the project, completed 3,000 pieces of story art, and spent million… Full story

My Week with Hungary's Far Right

Hungary has one of the most highly organized far-right movements in Europe. The Jobbik party—admired by those fed up with government corruption, derided by opponents as anti-Gypsy, anti-Semite, neo-Nazi homophobes—looks set to become the second-biggest presence in Hungarian parli… Full story

The Worst Restaurant in the World

Where do all the horrible crawling things in LA congregate, make weekend plans, and compliment one another's handbags? Answer: the Jack in the Box on the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga. Full story

Oxford Has Put Heavy Metal, Mesopotamians, and Noh Theater Together at Last

In a play entitled 'Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria,' concerning the life of a seventh-century B.C. king, written by an Assyriologist DPhil candidate, blocked in the style of Japanese Noh theater, and scored by a quantum physicist with an original heavy metal soundtr… Full story

Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei

Taipei Signs

In celebration of the forthcoming release of Tao Lin's latest novel, 'Taipei,' we will be featuring a weekly selection of iPhone photos taken by the author during his recent trip to Taipei, Taiwan. In this selection, Tao shows us some of his favorite signs around the city. Full story

Did a Murderer Just Give Himself Away on Yelp?

On May 3rd, a 36-year-old Iraq war veteran and college student named Maribel Ramos was reported missing by her family, after failing to turn up to several events in Santa Ana, California. A couple of days later Maribel's roommate KC Joy started posting super weird stuff on a Yelp… Full story

Here Comes the White-Power Safety Patrol

They Want to Clean Up Your Campus

Matthew has formed a group called the White Student Union that advocates for “persons of European heritage”—what most of us call “white people.” It comes as a surprise to the African American students who feel targeted by the night patrols Matthew began conducting in March… Full story

Did I Discover YelaWolf?

This. CD. It looked like… I really can’t even explain its levels of wrong. Imagine the worst possible images you have ever seen, all in one spot: the worst possible fonts, the worst possible colors, the worst possible photoshopping, title, spelling, whatever—everything—the worst… Full story

I'm Hunting Down the Fat Fetishist Who Has My Stolen Laptop

After the police continued to ignore him, Matt set up a blog he called Plumpergeddon (presumably inspired by the fat fetishist) and began posting the photos he'd captured and the evidence he was gathering about the guy who was now in possession of his stolen computer. I got in to… Full story