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Bad Tattoos of Bab Tabbaneh
After several days of street fighting in Tripoli, things cooled off a bit about a week and a half ago. A ceasefire agreement was struck, the Sunni fighters from the Bab Tabbaneh neighborhood put away their assault rifles and RPGs. I decided it was a...
Jeff Neumann
9.2.12
Music

Set List - Vic Bondi Still Thinks it’s Fucking Midnight in America
On the heels of the RNC, we had Vic Bondi choose his favorite anti-republican anthems. He also threw in five songs he wrote as well, and why the fuck not? He’s in the best scene in American Hardcore and still hates Republicans.
Vic Bondi
9.2.12
Sports

I Talked to Two Red Sox Fans at Fenway Park
Bostonians care more about their enemies losing than actually accomplishing anything themselves. No one sums up this better than the Fenway Faithful. The only constant remaining is the negativity on Yawkey Way flowing like the spoiled Schilling...
John Liam Policastro
9.2.12
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Milestones
Here they come! The bride and groom!
Ted May
9.2.12
Motherboard Blog

A New Reason To Be Irrationally Terrified of Solar Storms
It's common lore in the year 2012 that solar storms have the capability of knocking out our electrical grids and, you know, paralyzing society long enough for us to starve and/or get eaten by wolves and/or devour itself. Which isn't totally untrue...
Michael Byrne
9.1.12
Features

Why Rap Music Sucks When You Have a Broken Heart
Taking someone's woman has been seen as a display of power ever since Aphrodite decided to slut it up with all the Greek gods after Hephaestus wifed her. There was a time when black men were lynched over the mere accusation that they slept with white wome
Ernest Baker
Illustrations: Sam Taylor
9.1.12
Motherboard Blog

NASA Finds Us Our Very Own Tatooine 200 Light-Years Away
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is finding out that some science fiction is reality.
Amy Shira Teitel
9.1.12
Stuff

Taji’s Mahal – Afro-punk vs. Backstreet Boys
Last weekend I saw Ninjasonik and the Flatbush Zombies perform at the Afro-punk Festival in Brooklyn. Then on Thursday I saw the Backstreet Boys perform on Good Morning America. Below are a bunch of similarities and differences that I noticed between...
Taji Ameen
9.1.12
Stuff

I Signed Up for Dateskaters.com and Went on a Date
Why did I join a skateboard-centric online dating site rather than just going to a skate park and hitting on a Dylan Rieder clone? Have you been to one lately? It’s a great place to find young grommets and watch skate dads roll around. But it isn’t...
Celeste Maroon
9.1.12
Wasted Life

Free Puppy
Skinny Puppy’s reunion tour in 2004 was a big production. Founders Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key were properly outraged by the war in Iraq, and The Greater Wrong of the Right, the band’s first new album in eight years, was an anti-Bush polemic. The stage...
Moe Bishop
9.1.12
Sports

Big Surprise – Wide Receivers Get Arrested a Lot
It’s no secret that NFL players get arrested a lot, but why? I created an Excel sheet detailing the 75 reported arrests of NFL players since 2011. I broke down each arrest by the following criteria: Date of Arrest, player name, violation, position, and...
Anthony Pappalardo
9.1.12
Sports

I Talked to Manny Santiago About Skateboarding, Swords, Gangs, and Lowell, MA
Born in Puerto Rico, professional skateboarder Manny Santiago got started on the Lowell streets. Manny is always animated and seldom seen without an ear-to-ear grin, accentuated by his missing front tooth. He took some time to tell us about samurai...
Anthony Pappalardo
9.1.12
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