Volume 22 Issue 2
How an Inventor Lost Almost Everything in His Hunt for the Perfect Weapon
An amateur gunsmith claims to have built a mechanism that eliminated recoil from firearms—which is impossible.
Fighting for Facial Scars in Germany’s Secret Fencing Frats
The secret duels are all that remain of a once widespread practice called "Mensur."
Afghanistan’s Only Female Police Chief Takes on the Taliban
Covered from head to toe in a traditional black cloak and donning an automatic assault rifle on her broad shoulders, 53-year-old Firoza has been defending the people of her town for the past three years.
Gorgeous Portraits of San Francisco's Drag Queens
A selection from Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert's recent trip to the Bay Area.
February's Best and Worst Records
Tobias Jesso Jr is made of gorgeous falsetto, Of Montreal's new record is made of tired ideas, and Madonna keeps on truckin'.
KNOWN ZONES - The Noisey Guide to ATL’s Trap Map
Atlanta cops have divided the city into six zones. Not only does this provide an easy way to tell people where you're from, calling your hood "Zone X" makes Atlanta sound like a dystopia in the not-so-distant future.
Inside the Absurd Limbo of a Post-Prison Halfway House
One man's story of life in a place that is, in some ways, worse than being locked up.
Sweet Crude: Photographing an Oil Boom Town
The recent oil boom has transformed practically every aspect of Williston, North Dakota, and the surrounding area.
The Brazilian Town Where the American Confederacy Lives On
The Confederados are one of the last remaining enclaves of the children of the unreconstructed South.
The Isolated Lives of North Dakota's Gay Oil Field Workers
Though attitudes are slowly shifting in the conservative state, gay men who come for lucrative work in the booming Bakken shale formation often feel pressured to keep their identities hidden.