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Chef's Night Out: Bassanova Ramen in Tokyo

Keizo of Bassanova Ramen takes us on a walking tour of his favorite Tokyo haunts before heading back to Bassanova for surprisingly delicious "ramen burgers".
Keizo Shimamoto
1.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Will the Real Meteorologists Please Stand Up?

TV weatherpeople seem like such a goofy anachronism these days that I forget they even still exist until I'm in a motel room in some small town somewhere watching the local 10 o'clock news and, hey, there's someone calling themselves a meteorologist...
Michael Byrne
1.29.12
Comics!

Molly Might Die

Some people bring one exotic pet to parties. I bring four.
Devin Finch
1.29.12
FASHION WEEK INTERNATIONALE

Nigeria Fashion Week

Did you know that there's a bootleg Nigerian version of your girlfriend's favourite TV show?
Charlet Duboc
1.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Hollywood's Unreality: Challenger And The Unfortunate Timing of 'Space Camp'

Pity Hollywood. When art imitates life -- like in the September 12th-and-every-day-after film _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_ -- everyone misinterprets it as exploitative and manipulative and "demands":http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan...
Ben Richmond
1.28.12
Motherboard Blog

When Breast Implants Attack

Sometimes, as in the case of "a recent Florida stabbing":http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/woman-credits-breast-implant-with-saving-her-life-in-stab-attack/story-e6frev20-1226254622124, breast implants can save lives. But as many as 500,00...
Kelly Bourdet
1.28.12
Motherboard Blog

The Bright Yellow Asterisk: A Recollection of the Challenger Disaster

January, 1987. I stood alone 167 feet above the launch pad’s surface. I was staring into the open, small, white room. At the other end was an open doorway and beyond it was the blue expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. Between me and that 167 foot drop, the...
DENNIS CHAMBERLAND
1.28.12
Noisey

Kill For Total Peace

Bands get labeled "psychedelic" for a bunch of different reasons. Sometimes it's because they wear bandanas. Sometimes it's because they smoke weed. For Parisian quintet Kill For Total Peace, it's probably got something to do with their label, Pan...
VICE Staff
1.28.12
FASHION WEEK INTERNATIONALE

Nigeria Fashion Week

We spend the day with an insightful and heavily ADD-afflicted hairdresser.
Charlet Duboc
1.28.12
Tech

All Hands on the Internet

Because the Web actually is a series of tubes. Or pipes. Or something.
Brian Anderson
1.28.12
Tech

On Blasting Into Space as a Private Citizen: A Chat With Richard Garriott

Life's a game and then you die on Mars.
ALEX PASTERNACK
1.28.12
Motherboard Blog

January 20 in History: Here's the National Good Day Day Petition

Burning up the Internet right now is the official proclamation that "Ice Cube's Good Day occurred on January 20th, 1992":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/27/the-internet-has-pinpointed-ice-cube-s-good-day. That's leading many, including myself, to...
Derek Mead
1.27.12
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