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The Tornado and the Beach

The story is as crucial as crucial could have ever been. We're talking Grimm's fairy tale crucial. A family goes out one day, in this instance to a beach, and a boy, their boy, falls asleep, face down in the sand. Then the boy wakes up to the complete...
Eugene Robinson
1.19.13
Travel

Taji's Mahal - Costa Rica with Hitch

When my aunt picked me and Jade up at the San Jose Airport, she introduced us to her good friend, Hitch. Little did we know that he would be one of the best travel companions ever. Our bonding experience with Hitch officially began after we got lost in...
Taji Ameen
1.19.13
Stuff

An Honest Man's Advice for Studying Abroad in Africa

When you inform your friend's mother, splayed on her chaise longue in Santa Monica, that you'll be embarking for an African country well known to be infested with deadly snakes and diseases where parasitic worms crawl around in your eyeballs, she will...
Steve G
1.19.13
Motherboard Blog

Was Lance Armstrong Taking Jerk-Enhancing Drugs?

"I am flawed, deeply flawed," he told Oprah, by way of explanation. The flaw: "This ruthless desire to win, win at all costs truly."
ALEX PASTERNACK
1.19.13
Instagram Report

Rick Ross And DJ Khaled At Wingstop

This is the very image of American Royalty in 2013, and this knowledge makes me happier to be living in this than I have ever been before.
Drew Millard
1.18.13
Motherboard Blog

How to Start an Internet Revolution, in Three Easy Steps

A week after Aaron Swartz's tragic and untimely death, the same collective of Internet activists that helped bring down SOPA are rising up against a new cause. How they might do it all over again.
Adam Clark Estes
1.18.13
Music

Stories You Won’t Hear While Shopping for Music Online: Day One

In this new column, Kathy Iandoli tells stories from her five-year stint as a record store sales associate. This one is about pee.
Kathy Iandoli
1.18.13
Music

Creators Remix Roundup: AraabMUZIK, Digipedi, And DJ Zegon

AraabMUZIK lays its down for Metafore, Digipedi visualizes Jinbo’s “Fantasy,” and DJ Zegon kills.
Kate Masaracchio
1.18.13
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #80

This might be the kind of book that is a godsend if you're stupid and can't focus. But I feel like this didn't need to be a comic at all. It could have just been a regular book and it would have wasted less paper that way.
Nick Gazin
1.18.13
The British Masters
11:30

Luke Haines, Accidental Britpop Inventor and Author

"Today I am talking to Luke Haines, rock star and author. He's a man who's been accused of inventing Britpop -- when his band The Auteurs released their debut album New Wave in 1993.
Weekly Music Round-Up

Weekly Music Round-Up: Kris Kross Reunites, Beyoncé's Selling Her Fake Wedding Dress, And Skrillex's Hair Caught On Fire

Also, Sisqo is back.
Drew Millard
1.18.13
NSFW

Vito Fun's Fall Photo Dump

Every year around this time, winter makes us forget what it feels like to be warm and we start to wonder if the sun will ever return to our frigid planet. Lucky for us, Vito Fun recently rummaged through his last remaining photos from 2012 and sent us...
Vito Fun
1.18.13
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