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Fashion

All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go at New York Fashion Week Pt. 1

With all its snotty parties, self-aggrandizing people, and the commerciality that seems to be symptomatic of New York Fashion Week, it's easy to forget that fashion is actually a good thing.
Wilbert L. Cooper
9.10.12
Motherboard Blog

Thanks to Humans, Caribbean Reefs Are Basically Dead

Thanks to the dynamic duo of overfishing and climate change, Caribbean reefs are on the brink of death.
Derek Mead
9.10.12
Motherboard Blog

Nobody Knows How to Stop the Internet's Overzealous Copyright Robocops

The bots that are meant to police sites like YouTube and Ustream for violations of copyright are on a rampage and stirring up trouble across the Internet. Over the course of the past month or so, the streaming of a number of major broadcast events has...
Adam Estes
9.10.12
Wide World of Balls

Thank You NFL for Saving Our Sundays

Football has started, and football football football. Also, Chipper Jones gets a gift, some Duke basketball guy is in court for having too much awesome jewelry, and there might not be hockey this season.
Lou Doggs
Sports Staff
9.10.12
Travel

Berlin Story: Adieu, Tacheles

This is typical of the strategy used in dealing with squatters: offering a ten or twenty year amnesty period, after which the original occupants have moved on, passing the torch to a younger, more complacent generation, who are easily steam-rolled in...
Al Burian
9.10.12
Dogmageddon

Party Time!

For progressives, there was plenty to love about the Democratic National Convention. There was gay rightsing, shaming Republicans for failure with women, and Bill Clinton flamethrowing statistics like he was at Burning Man. But there was one troubling...
Rick Paulas
9.10.12
Motherboard Blog

Three Men Were Busted For Smuggling Rare Primates in Their Underpants

For all the horrifying images of elephant and rhino slaughters that you have to wade through when writing about wildlife trafficking, occasionally something rather more goofball pops up. In this case, it's the case of three men getting busted at an...
Derek Mead
9.10.12
Fashion

Charlotte Ronson's NYFW Show Attracted a Motley Fashion Crew

Charlotte Ronson's NYFW show didn't disappoint. The crowd was still eclectic and cool, the clothes were still feminine and flirty, and a pink-haired Samantha was DJing chill tunes that somehow made me forget that I was brutally hungover from FNO.
Kathleen Flood
9.10.12
Stuff

Can These Blurry Glasses Stop Me Perving Over Women?

If it's working for Orthodox Jews, why can't it work for me?
Photos: Kyle Johnston
9.10.12
New music

The New Death Grips Single Is Hot Fire

Our favorite Sacramento experimental hip-hop trio continues to blow minds and eardrums with "@DeathGripz."
Benjamin Shapiro
9.10.12
Music

We Had a Convo Date with Kreayshawn and a Taxidermied Bear

We interviewed Kreayshawn about her new album, the definition of lean, and pretty much just tried to get her to talk to us for as long as possible.
Kelly McClure
9.10.12
Motherboard Blog

We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say

If there’s a single factor that reliably sparks social unrest, it’s food becoming too scarce or too expensive.
Brian Merchant
9.10.12
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