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The Rise and Fall of the Winnipeg Rock Machine

Drugs, guns and explosives all on display during a recent press conference on a RCMP bust that crippled the Winnipeg chapter of the Rock Machine biker gang.
Morgan Modjeski
5.1.13
New music

Listen to Ben Baptie's Remix of WALL's "Shoestring"

Somewhere between a dance track and a head-nodding toe-tapper, this rework won't "force" you to get up and move, but it will definitely politely suggest that you do.
5.1.13
Stuff

The Celebrity Dogs Who Are More Powerful than People

Last weekend, I attended America’s Family Pet Expo in Costa Mesa, California. This massive annual pet expo attracts thousands of people for a host of reasons. One of the biggest draws, though, was the celebrity pet event—a showcase of trained dogs who...
Allegra Ringo
5.1.13
Features

Download an Exclusive "Toronto Thaw" Mixtape

The Toronto Thaw festival launches tonight—featuring a bevy of awesome artists that range from goth dance freaks, to noisy punks, to glam-rockers—and to celebrate the festival's eclectic purview we got them to give us a free mixtape.
Noisey Canada
5.1.13
Travel

Remnants of the Waco Siege: Mount Carmel on the 20th Anniversary of the Branch Davidian Disaster

After the Waco siege, gun owners, especially in the South and Michigan, banded together into civilian militias, calling themselves patriots and Constitutionalists. They practiced military maneuvers on weekends and told co-workers that a second American...
Dick J. Reavis
5.1.13
Question Of The Day

Why Are Kids So Fat?

"Because Ben and Jerry's tastes so nice."
Sascha Kouvelis
5.1.13
Stuff

Sarcophagi of Prisoners Covered in Cocaine

Johannes Göransson new book, 'Haute Surveillance,' is kind of like a novelization of a movie about the production of a play based on Abu Ghraib, but with way more starlets and cocaine and semen.
Blake Butler
5.1.13
we saw this

I Saw Limp Bizkit Last Night and It Changed My Life

We went to Long Island to see a Limp Bizkit concert and it ended up changing our entire perspective on what it means to be punk rock.
Drew Millard
5.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Why a Judge Asserting That Privacy Is Not a Right Is Bad News for the Internet

Each time we determine that “security” outweighs privacy interests, a hazardous precedent is set.
Michael Wertheim
5.1.13
Motherboard Blog

To Free Iran's Internet, Hacktivists Are Taking On the Supreme Council of Cyberspace

“There is a time bomb over there, and we don’t know when it will explode.”
Laura Cameron
5.1.13
Art

UVA Creates Space From Light In Vanishing Point

United Visual Artists create a laser-like environment that plays with your sense of space.
Antoine Carbonnaux
5.1.13
Motherboard Blog

The Tiniest Sculpture and the First Atomic Film: It's a Good Day for the Smallest Art Ever

IBM made the world's smallest movie with carbon molecules, and a British sculptor made the tiniest physical work of art with a flake of his own hair.
Brian Merchant
5.1.13
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