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Sticking Around After the Evacuations During a California Wildfire

Earlier this month there were 13 fires burning in the San Diego area. During mandatory evacuations, homeowners leave everything behind, knowing they might never see it again. Some stick around to fend off the flames themselves.
John Hibey
5.28.14
Culture

These Keyboard-Playing Free Jazz Otters Are Going Places

The Smithsonian's National Zoo stumbles on true talent.
Michael Byrne
5.28.14
Music

Paco Sala's 'Impossible Places': A Perfect Jam for Your Weird, Busted Summer

Imagine if chillwave worked.
Michael Byrne
5.28.14
Words

The Short Film Set to Burial's "Rival Dealer" is Gritty and Sad

Auteur Ben Dawkins captures the melancholy of Burial's latest work.
Jemayel Khawaja
5.28.14
The Profiles Issue

Jon Taffer Is America’s Greatest Poet of Drunkenness and Failure

One balmy Wednesday last December, Jon Taffer stood in the dining room of Scoreboard 2, a dive in Norwalk, California. “I want to start by telling you I don’t give a shit about these cameras!” he said. “Saving bars is my life.”
Brad Wesley
5.28.14
Power

A New, Old Way To Defend Against Chemical Weapons

A rediscovered compound beats anything going for neutralizing nerve agents. It might do the same for atmospheric carbon.
Michael Byrne
5.27.14
Words

MoMA PS1's 2014 Warm Up Line-Up is F*cking Bananas

Benji B, Cashmere Cat, Evian Christ, Cibo Matto and more will perform in the Queens museum's courtyard this summer.
Lauren Schwartzberg
5.27.14
Words

Cashmere Cat’s First SoundCloud: Even Great Producers Start Somewhere

Before Mirror Maru, there was Intuisjon/Lille.
Ziad Ramley
5.27.14
Opinion and Analysis

The Common Core, Military Readiness, and the Myth of America's Dumb Youth

A group of retired military personnel is arguing that test scores prove that America's youth are too stupid to serve. They are very wrong.
Abigail Haddad
5.27.14
Sweden

Sweden's War On Fascists

Meet Sweden's far-left militants who are trying to crush fascism by any means necessary.
VICE News
5.27.14
Mongolia

Huang's World: Mongolia, Part 3

Eddie eats musky sheep eyeballs, appears on Mongol television, and chats with some local fans about the country's attempt to retain its cultural identity in the face of a new mining project in the Gobi Desert.
Eddie Huang
5.27.14
Mongolia

Huang's World: Mongolia, Part 2

Eddie checks out some questionable (... pause ...) meat at a market in Ulan Bator, then attends a massive outdoor metal festival and learns how to make khorkhog.
Eddie Huang
5.27.14
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