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What the Pressure Cooker Bombs Tell Us About the Bombers in Boston

The problem with terrorism is that it terrifies, and people do unfortunate things when terrified.
Adam Clark Estes
4.16.13
News

Eighty-One Years for Weed?

Here’s how absurd the war on drugs has gotten: an activist from Keene, New Hampshire, is facing 81 years in prison for dealing marijuana, and while he's admitted to the crime, he’s still fighting the case in court today in hopes the jury will acquit...
Harry Cheadle
4.16.13
New music

Premiere: Tonstartssbandht - "Alright"

A brand new video from Montreal's jazzy bluesy metal band Tonstartssbandht.
Noisey Canada
4.16.13
Motherboard Blog

By Banning Ads from Glass, Is Google Changing Its Business Model?

Google's bread and butter is advertising. How will it make money off an ad-less Glass?
Zach Sokol
4.16.13
CAPS LOCK REVIEWS

Tyga's 'Hotel California' is Half Good as Long as You Forget You're Listening to Tyga

THE FACT THAT YOU COULD CLONE THIS NIGGA 30 TIMES AND STILL NOT EVEN BEGIN TO APPROACH THE WEIGHT LIMIT OF A STANDARD ELEVATOR IS IRRELEVANT WHEN YOU HEAR THE DRUMS ON "500 DEGREES," YOU FEEL ME?
The Kid Mero
4.16.13
Truckers in the Wild

Nashville

As with most alluring American cities, the food truck scene in Nashville is going strong, and the SoulFuel 501 truck is among the best of a new breed of trucks bringing an innovative twist to classic southern cuisine.
VICE Staff
4.16.13
Motherboard Blog

See the Boston Marathon Bombing Hit the Blogs In Real-time

This is what we blog about when we blog about tragedy.
Brian Merchant
4.16.13
News

Editing Homophobia out of the “Islamic Tradition”

Slave rape, marital rape, and plural marriage might be unpleasant to consider as part of Islamic sexuality, but they are deeply embedded in our established sources. But I do not believe that Islamic tradition is frozen in stone. Every translation is an...
Michael Muhammad Knight
4.16.13
Parenting Tips

Parenting Tips... With Kurt Vile

We sat down with Kurt Vile to talk about being a dad.
Cam Lindsay
4.16.13
Music

We Spoke to B4-4 about Bullies and Blowjobs

B4-4 was one of the few Canadian boy bands that I can remember from that time because they had a hit song called “Get Down” that was unquestionably about going down on girls and then getting blowjobs in return. They play in Vegas now, so I gave them a...
Brad Casey
4.16.13
Stuff

Olympia’s Grand Jury Resistors Speak

In a rather harrowing act of modern civil disobedience, Matt Duran and Katherine "Kteeo" Oleknik refused to rat on their friends' political beliefs after being scooped up by the FBI after May Day protests last year in Seattle. They spent five months in...
Kat Gardiner
4.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Behold, the First Page of Thomas Pynchon's New Novel About Post-Bubble, Pre-9/11 New York, 'Bleeding Edge'

Ah, Manhattan's Upper West Side: where the money flows aplenty, nepotism is a birthright, and the consequence for every action—economic collapse, poverty, fanatical terrorism, etc.—always falls to someone else, outside their zone.
DJ Pangburn
4.16.13
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