Fringes: Stories from the Edge: Cowboy Capitalists - Part 1
For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In...
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Don't Insult the Iron Sheik, Bubba
The trailer for Iranian Legend: The Iron Sheik Story If you know anything about professional wrestling, you know who the Iron Sheik is. The legendary heel started his WWF career back in the early 80s,...
View ArticleDie Antwoord's New Video for "Cookie Thumper!" Will Probably Creep You Out
Die Antwoord's New Video for "Cookie Thumper!" Will Probably Creep You Out
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Fashion Week Reports: London Collections: Men – Nasir Mazhar, Katie Eary and...
When you're as good-looking and well-dressed as us, it's Fashion Week every week. But this week it really is Fashion Week. This is a roundup of the best things we've seen at London Collections: Men so...
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The Secret Ex-Torture Compound in the Heart of Kensington
The entrance to Kensington Palace Gardens, former home of the "London Cage". (Photo via) All things considered, Kensington and Chelsea is probably the London borough that makes you feel most shit...
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Meeting Hardcore Drug Users at a Four-Star Hotel in Lithuania
I’m at the four-star Radisson Hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, for one of the world’s most cosmopolitan gatherings of former and current drug users. There are heroin injectors from the slums of...
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I Spoke to Some Immoral Hackers Who Don't Give a Shit About Your Feelings
(Image © Robert Colburn for openphoto.net) Chances are, you don't understand how to use the internet. Not really – you think you do, but are you even aware of the scale of it? It's fucking massive....
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I Smoked Hash and Watched Cute Animal Videos with Syrian Rebels
The one shitty photo I managed to take on my phone to prove I was there. "This guy has smoked too much hashish," said the leader of a Syrian rebel militia group, gesturing at me with an amused look...
View ArticleWild Things: The Wolfman
80-year-old Werner Freund would rather be a wolf than a man. He's been raising and living with wild wolves in Germany for the last 30 years and considers them his family. Last January, Gersin Paya...
View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: Cowboy Capitalists - Part 2
For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. The former small-time hustler has been busting his ass on the continent for years, selling and moving merchandise. In...
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World Peace Update
Photo by Raphael Tognini. You might have noticed that there was no World Peace Update last week. That's because I was getting sunburnt on the Aegean coast and figured writing about worldwide chaos and...
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Question of the Day: What Would You Get Tear-Gassed for?
Tear gas seems to be pretty in vogue at the moment. Protesters in Turkey, Brazil and even Switzerland have been subjected to some of that noxious tear-jerker in the past couple of weeks, leaving the...
View ArticleA Hundred Thousand People Marched in São Paulo On Monday
What began as a demonstration against the rising cost of public transportation in São Paulo has become a full-on national protest movement giving voice to long-brewing anger over how the Brazilian...
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I Went to the G8 Summit and All I Got Was This Lousy Protest
This week, after years of anarchist big talk, months of meticulous police planning and weeks of everyone kind of ignoring it because of bigmouth Ed Snowden, the year's coolest party finally arrived....
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Happiness
Photos by Sorryimworking M y mother bought a house with her prayer group. The house was built in the early 1980s, a spacious single story with a wraparound porch. The prayer group hung a banner over...
View ArticleOh Great: Pavements in London Are Exploding
Oh Great: Pavements in London Are Exploding
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I'll Always Love You, Tony Soprano
A still from The Sopranos. It seems that these days we’re all running some terrible race to announce celebrities' deaths to each other, and to subsequently conjure up cheap gags about them. Wisecracks...
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I Auditioned to Be a Disney Princess
At the age of 14, I had dreams of being a theater kid. Like all awkward children, I imagined transcending my station in life and being the center of attention. This didn't work out – I only auditioned...
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