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Festival Season!

Mud and Mushrooms at ÎleSoniq Music Festival 2014
Montreal's brand spanking new electro-fulled festival raved on through mud and mush this past weekend.
Carine Buncsi
8.18.14
Premieres

Adil Omar's "Exploding Heart" Video Lives Up To Its Title In the Most Unexpected Way
There are armed bug-eyed skeletons and other science fantasy elements.
Marissa G. Muller
8.18.14
Art

6 Artists Who Use Waterfalls As Canvases
From the Rain Room to Olafur Eliasson's installation at the Brooklyn Bridge, these six projects creatively interpret falling water.
Beckett Mufson
8.18.14
Opinion and Analysis

There Was a State of Emergency in Ferguson Long Before Saturday
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Saturday, but Ferguson residents were in the midst of one long before then.
Natasha Lennard
8.18.14
middle east

Lebanon Is Grateful for More Airplanes and Ammunition
Airpower has been a vital psychological, political, and military weapon in the Middle East this summer. So Lebanon wants more of it.
Ryan Faith
8.18.14
News

Seattle's Former Police Chief Speaks Out Against Police Brutality
Norm Stamper ordered a brutal crackdown on WTO protesters in 1999, when he was Seattle's chief of police. Now, he's a vocal opponent of the militarization of cops—and says his mistakes are being repeated in Ferguson.
Leighton Woodhouse
8.18.14
russia

Fleeing Civilians ‘Burned Alive’ in Ukraine as Rebel Fighters Are Set to Cross the Border
A “powerful artillery strike” hit a convoy, which was carrying white flags and under the escort of the Ukrainian army.
Harriet Salem
8.18.14
Words

Lindsay Lowend & Jonah Baseball Glitched Out a GoldLink Tune
"Ay Ay' just got weird.
Jemayel Khawaja
8.18.14
Words

Elegante & La Imperial Turned Fruit into Sex Objects
And sex objects into fruit, etc...
Jemayel Khawaja
8.18.14
climate change

Planet Hacks: Climate Engineering Is About to Get Real
The world's first major international geoengineering meeting is now officially underway in Berlin.
Brian Merchant
8.18.14
Bad Cop Blotter

Everything Wrong With Police Has Been on Display in Ferguson
After Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on August 9, the cops’ reaction provided a neat snapshot of just about every dangerous aspect of policing in modern America.
Lucy Steigerwald
8.18.14
Holy Shit

Taylor Swift Has a New Video, a New Album, and a New Everything
Watch the video for Taylor Swift's new song, "Shake It Off."
Kyle Kramer
8.18.14
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