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How to Survive a Karaoke Bar

Karaoke bars are the most dangerous kind of watering hole, hands down.
Gregory Pike
10.2.12
Motherboard Blog

The U.S. and Mexican Narcos Are Smoking the Peace Pipe

Or so purports a cache of leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor. The correspondences cite a Mexican diplomat who claims that not only is the U.S. government working in cahoots with Mexican drug cartels to funnel product into...
Brian Anderson
10.2.12
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll

Monogamy, Boliviana Negra, and Child Actor (the Band)

In this installment of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll, Sophie talks about unique takes on monogamy and bi-sexuality, Boliviana negra, and the band Child Actor.
Sophie Saint Thomas
10.2.12
FIGHTLAND

Necessary Violence

I hate real fighting as much as I love MMA. I believe it's no gladiatorial free-for-all, but a real sport with rules and a value system. But fighters are predisposed toward violence, and sometimes I just want to see good fighters fight.
Josh Rosenblatt
10.2.12
Features

Mike Love Is Kind Of An Asshole

Here’s a list of things of shitty things everyone's least favorite Beach Boy has done, in no particular order.
Luke Winkie
10.2.12
Music

Until The Awkward Silence Comes: A Casual Conversation With Flying Lotus

FlyLo tells us about his new record, his collaborators, and the music that helped him forge his sound.
Abdullah Saeed
10.2.12
Tech

Killer App

If Diaspora has shown us anything, it’s that people can care enough to have a say about privacy, when the time is right.
ALEC LIU
10.2.12
Motherboard Blog

The Wiki Weapons Project Is Stalled, But Not Dead

Let’s be honest. The Wiki Weapons Project is a bad idea, and has been from the start. In brief, a bunch of guys down in Texas want to design plans for a deadly gun whose plans can be downloaded and then 3D-printed by anyone with access to the right...
Adam Clark Estes
10.2.12
Stuff

Dorothea Lasky’s Wild-Ass Shout-Brain

The first time I saw Dorothea Lasky she was standing in the middle of a crowded living room in Brooklyn wearing a dress and shouting into a loudspeaker. Her words go kindly for the throat. Whether she's writing about blood or going to hell or friends...
Blake Butler
10.2.12
Noisey

One Man Metal

We interviewed three enigmatic solo artists—Leviathan, Striborg, and Xasthur—who produce black metal on the margins of society. These are men who don’t just play the music, but also embody what it reflects: isolation, misanthropy, and anger.
Noisey Staff
10.2.12
Film

We Talked to the Director of 'End of Watch'

We love David Ayers for penning the script to 'Training Day,' a movie essentially about awful corrupt cops. So we were intrigued when we heard that his latest effort focuses on the good guys of the force. We called him up to talk about it.
VICE Staff
10.2.12
Motherboard Blog

You Can Go To Jail For 'Liking' Something on Facebook in the Philippines

There’s a long list of nations that routinely curtail internet freedoms. Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Burma, North Korea; even Europe is currently looking to get in on the online freedom-restricting game. And, of course, you can’t even mention the subject...
Brian Merchant
10.2.12
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