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Weathering the Storm? Bitcoin Finds New Resiliency

Open-source banking charges upward.
ALEC LIU
3.16.13
SXSW 2013

Blind South By - Day Four

Our blind reporter spends the day with Kitty Pryde, Haim, Future, Usher, and the crew from All Songs Considered.
Will Butler
3.16.13
Music

Can This Be Over Now? - SXSW Day Four

After waking up and checking my outgoing text messages from yesterday, it seems as though I spent most of the day, and all of the night, texting my boss about how I just want him to "understand me" and then saying, "Sorry, I'm on pills," while also...
Kelly McClure
3.16.13
News

This Guy Took Out a Gigantic Loan to Destroy the Financial System

In 2008, anticapitalist campaigner Enric Durán borrowed €492,000 ($642,306) from 39 different financial entities with absolutely no hope or intention of paying it back. Instead he used the money to fund a number of unspecified causes and now faces jail...
Paul Geddis
3.16.13
News

Back Behind Bars with Gaddafi's Would-Be Assassin

Twenty-six years ago, Azeddine Madani would have done anything to escape his cell in Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison, but right now he’s wrangling with armed guards in an effort to get back in. We’re here to attend a tribute to Abu Salim’s former...
Wil Crisp
3.16.13
News

Hey Black Dudes, Why the Hell Are You at CPAC?

It's kind of hard to imagine why any black person would be at CPAC. But surprisingly, there are more than a handful of brown ladies and gents at the conservative conference. I wandered around the bowels of the Gaylord Convention Center and spoke to...
Wilbert L. Cooper
3.16.13
News

Open Hillel Campaign Stirs the Pot on BDS-Jewish Relations

There’s a saying within the American Jewish community, a common self-effacing in-joke: “For every three Jews, you’ll find four opinions.” Far from being just a way to draw a cute yuck during an open mic night your local shul, the joke harkens back to a...
Dan Schneider
3.16.13
taji's mahal

Hanging with Al Rogers

For this week's Mahal, I met up with Baltimore rapper Al Rogers and New York City shredder Eby Ghafarian to cruise the Lower East Side and pregame the release of Al's first ever LP, 'Almost.' Al got his start by reciting poetry then graduated to...
Taji Ameen
3.16.13
New music

Welcome to Alpoko Don's Pen & Table Rap

Even though most rappers claim to not use pens anymore, Alpoko Don still does, just for a slightly different purpose.
Martin Spasov
3.15.13
SXSW 2013

Weekly Music News Round-Up: Here's Everything That Happened While You Were at SXSW

Other stuff happened this week outside of Austin. Promise!
Drew Millard
3.15.13
The Mercy Rule

Bill Walton, The Tallest Troll

Bill Walton has been providing color commentary for basketball for a long time, and, well, that's a thing, we guess.
David Roth
3.15.13
Party

Watch Hundreds of Gliding Leaf Frogs Party (and Mate) in Costa Rica

This video shows a whole bunch of gliding leaf frogs chilling near some water in a mating frenzy.
Derek Mead
3.15.13
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