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Does Big Shiny Tunes 2 Hold Up in 2013?

Big Shiny Tunes 2, the famous Canadian music compilation primarily made of non-Canadian music, turns 16 later this year. We decided to see how well our favourite elementary school jams hold up.
Patrick Maloney
2.26.13
Music Video Premieres

Off With Their Heads - "Start Walking" (Official Video)

With their album dropping in less than a month, punk rock mainstays Off With Their Heads just sent us their new video for "Start Walking."
2.26.13
Question Of The Day

How Important to the Running of Britain are Politicians' Sex Lives?

"It’s titillation, isn’t it?"
Simone Sebastian
2.26.13
Fan Fiction

Macklemore Gets Locked in Goodwill Overnight

"Through the windows in the donation room, Macklemore peers into the storefront. All the lights are off and it is silent. The Goodwill is closed and the doors are locked."
Kate Davis Jones
2.26.13
Stuff

The Disorienting Novels of Kobo Abe

I wanted to read all of the novels by one person in a short time, kind of like a rapid upload of someone’s whole career into my brain. I’d never read a whole book by Kobo Abe, frequently referred to as the Japanese Kafka, despite already owning three...
Blake Butler
2.26.13
NSFW

Lascivious: For the Love of Porn

February is the month of love and there’s nothing I love more than porn. Someone on my feed recently posted a quote from a marriage-counseling conference that said, “No one in the history of the world has ever had a better marriage because of...
Queerie Bradshaw
2.26.13
Art

Antimap's Stripes Bridge The Gap Between New Media And Op-Art

Using projection mapping, Oli Sorenson turns Daniel Buren’s work into a digital optical illusion.
Benoit Palop
2.26.13
Motherboard Blog

Inside China's Legal, Hidden Tiger Farming Trade

China's captive tiger population may actually be stimulating demand for wild tigers.
Derek Mead
2.26.13
Popping the Marks

Remembering Master Fard Muhammad

February 26 is Saviors’ Day, the birthday of the founder of the Nation of Islam. Master Fard Muhammad will probably never get his due for his contribution, but the biggest challenge to fully appreciating him may be that he so effectively escaped...
Michael Muhammad Knight
2.26.13
Art

Mysterious Shadows In The Queens Plaza Clock Tower

In late 2012, light artist Chris Jordan was invited to the clock tower in Queens Plaza to make and show art in the clock tower room.
Sean McIntyre
2.26.13
Pretty Girl Bullshit

Louise Mensch Writes a "Feminist" Fashion Blog

We're basically the same person now.
Bertie Brandes
2.26.13
BEYONCÉWATCH 2013

A Bunch of Douchebags Started a Riot in the Line for Beyoncé Tickets in England

Unlimited finger wags to whoever dare disrupt anything Beyoncé-related.
Drew Millard
2.26.13
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