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NASA Finds Us Our Very Own Tatooine 200 Light-Years Away

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is finding out that some science fiction is reality.
Amy Shira Teitel
9.1.12
Stuff

Taji’s Mahal – Afro-punk vs. Backstreet Boys

Last weekend I saw Ninjasonik and the Flatbush Zombies perform at the Afro-punk Festival in Brooklyn. Then on Thursday I saw the Backstreet Boys perform on Good Morning America. Below are a bunch of similarities and differences that I noticed between...
Taji Ameen
9.1.12
Stuff

I Signed Up for Dateskaters.com and Went on a Date

Why did I join a skateboard-centric online dating site rather than just going to a skate park and hitting on a Dylan Rieder clone? Have you been to one lately? It’s a great place to find young grommets and watch skate dads roll around. But it isn’t...
Celeste Maroon
9.1.12
Wasted Life

Free Puppy

Skinny Puppy’s reunion tour in 2004 was a big production. Founders Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key were properly outraged by the war in Iraq, and The Greater Wrong of the Right, the band’s first new album in eight years, was an anti-Bush polemic. The stage...
Moe Bishop
9.1.12
Sports

Big Surprise – Wide Receivers Get Arrested a Lot

It’s no secret that NFL players get arrested a lot, but why? I created an Excel sheet detailing the 75 reported arrests of NFL players since 2011. I broke down each arrest by the following criteria: Date of Arrest, player name, violation, position, and...
Anthony Pappalardo
9.1.12
Sports

I Talked to Manny Santiago About Skateboarding, Swords, Gangs, and Lowell, MA

Born in Puerto Rico, professional skateboarder Manny Santiago got started on the Lowell streets. Manny is always animated and seldom seen without an ear-to-ear grin, accentuated by his missing front tooth. He took some time to tell us about samurai...
Anthony Pappalardo
9.1.12
WTF

Ann Romney and I Are Going to Have an Adult Party

I think Ann needs to be humanized. She and I should take summer ecstacy and enjoy the engorged, climaxing fauna of the season, all ripe and abundant and ready to explode with their own sweet juices.
Julia Kennedy
9.1.12
News

I Watched Michele Bachmann Talk About Spinach on the Last Day of the RNC

I headed to the cigar tent, like a good Republican, to unwind after having my eyes and ears fed with apocalyptic warnings about the dangers of anarchist communists for the past three days at the RNC. It was a great convention.
Kyle Kramer
8.31.12
Noisey Blog

Another Rad Remix Of The Sanctuaries From Ava Luna's Felicia Douglass

We've got the more low-key take on the NYC quartet's "Brief Encounter."
Noisey Staff
8.31.12
Photos of Girls at Shows

Nick Gazin's Photos of Girls at Shows - Volume 13

The next time you see one of these babes at a show, tell 'em they're lovely.
Nick Gazin
8.31.12
Motherboard Blog

Will Isaac's Wake Leave Another Baby Dolphin Boom?

Following hurricane Katrina, an influx of dolphin calves in the Mississippi Sound has raised brows of curiosity and speculation. So, what could it be? Scientific American listed some possible reasons according to report from the University of Southern...
Daniel Stuckey
8.31.12
Music

Hyped: The Week In Links 8/31

Busy week? Here are some things you may have missed.
Sami Sharaf
8.31.12
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