The Stories Issue

  • Here's What J. Edgar Hoover Called 'Fake News'

    Government officials have long watched journalists who pissed them off.

  • The Making of Nigeria's Film Empire

    "The stories are amazing."

  • Powerhouse Drunk

    U have good locations for do's and don't's,but u should take powerhouse off of bar list as a hollywood hipster bought it,and changed it around.

  • Electric Independence

    Hallelujah. After 11 years of stalking the fringes, one of the country's leading independent labels, DC Recordings, has finally got round to releasing its first compilation.

  • Grimewatch

    You should all be happy to know that Scorcher, the finest MC the grime scene has ever produced (in our opinion) has been released from jail and is currently on road working on his debut album.

  • Montreal Suicide

    Alex Macalister was this overeducated ponce that we used to hang out with in Montreal. He was a good guy and really funny but he talked like a Lord Byronesque version of Ignatius J Reilly.

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  • Records

    An overfed and under-talented party tart clumsily deconstructing gender dynamics is as threatening to the mainstream as Weird Al doing a Toby Keith parody—and certainly far less entertaining.

  • Tidbits

    Every month we get at least three of these things. What do you want us to do? Make a joke about kids doing crack? Kids do crack all the time.

  • Tell Us About Your First Time

    I fucked my best friend and it was so bad. He was in there for like one second. Barely anything. He stuck the tip in and started crying and went limp. Then he told me that the only reason I got with him was because I was "shallow and horny."

  • The First Annual Story Awards - True Crime

    I was working at an art warehouse in Chelsea in like 1994. I was riding my bike home and it was snowing really hard. I got squeezed in between a car and a bus, and I ended up knocking the side-view mirror on the car pretty bad.

  • Tidbits

    Every month we get at least three of these things. What do you want us to do? Make a joke about kids doing crack? Kids do crack all the time.

  • Records

    An overfed and under-talented party tart clumsily deconstructing gender dynamics is as threatening to the mainstream as Weird Al doing a Toby Keith parody—and certainly far less entertaining.