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Sothern Exposure

A Couple from Venice Beach

It's 1967 and a chick I met a couple of days ago is letting me crash on the floor in the garage apartment she shares with her boyfriend in Venice Beach. The boyfriend tells me we are close to a Black Panther chapter and a few nights ago a couple of...
Scot Sothern
7.15.14
Longreads Or Whatever

The Curious Case of Lewis’ L’Amour

It's the best album of 2014, despite the fact that it was recorded in 1983.
Cam Lindsay
7.15.14
Interviews

United Nations Vs. United Nations: How a Little Punk Band Fought the Biggest Intergovernmental Agency in the World and Won

Frontman Geoff Rickly talks about the band's cease-and-desist-letter-filled history.
Dan Ozzi
7.15.14
college football

Troll Tide: Bama Fan Plants Flag on A&M's Stadium

College football season is here and Alabama fans are getting warmed up.
David Matthews
7.15.14
Art

Robotic Drawings Turn Computer Code Into Undulating 3D Patterns

Michael Theodore's scratchboard pictures create curved forms from millions of carefully etched straight lines.
Kevin Holmes
7.15.14
Immigrant America
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They Steal Our (Shitty) Jobs?

They Steal Our (Shitty) Jobs?
MEXICALIA

Mexican Narco Music Is the Soundtrack to the War on Drugs

Mexico's narcocorrido music genre and subculture openly celebrates the most extreme aspects of the country's drug war.
VICE Staff
7.15.14
Power

How GCHQ's Newly Leaked Spy Tools Manipulate the Net

A whole list of tools with bizarre codenames has been revealed, including some that monitor Skype, manipulate online polls, and spread false information.
Joseph Cox
7.15.14
Features

I Was On The 1Xtra Panel That Wiley Said Made The Saddest List Of All Time

I called up the chair of the panel, 1Xtra Breakfast Show DJ Twin B, to see whether he thought it underrepresented black artists.
sam wolfson
7.15.14
Film

The Year's Best Film About Income Inequality Was Nearly Ruined by the 1 Percent

"Snowpiercer" could be a smash hit, if it weren't trapped in the art house.
Brian Merchant
7.15.14
Tech

This Subreditt Tells You Exactly How Ugly You Are

Which, depending on who you are, can either be helpful or not very nice at all.
Amelia Tait
7.15.14
Business

Comcast Is Investigating a Customer Service Call From Hell

Tech journalist Ryan Block's attempt to disconnect his Comcast service is at times hilarious and infuriating.
Sam Gustin
7.15.14
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