The Trashiest Beach In Athens
Standing at the entrance of 'Voula Beach B' in the Vari neighbourhood of Athens, I feel a part of my heart break. The words "Open Public Beach” have been sprayed across the gate in green paint, while...
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This Is How Europe Takes Drugs in 2014
The 2014 European Drug Report came out last week and told us exactly what we already knew: that Europeans are very fond of drugs. For better or worse, our continent has arguably been the world's most...
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The World Would Be So Much Worse without Ecstasy
A young Sasha Shulgin in his lab (Photo via Flickr user Lorenzo Tlacaelel) Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin – a person who could perhaps claim to have influenced global youth culture more than any other in...
View ArticleRaiding an Online Archive of Weird Russian Photographs
Snooping around the back corridors of the web last month, I found myself in a Russian unsecured directory, where the residents of a region called Karelia back up all their files. The directory is...
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The Park Ranger
All photos by Tim Freccia Here in his secret bush camp Riek Machar holds court atop his plastic chair while his wife Angelina Teny cooks. On our arrival I gave her a candelabra, some sugar, an array...
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Things Men Have Said to My Face After Seeing My Naked Body
The author Since the dawn of time, with the exception of maybe a few weeks there at the beginning, nakedness and shame have gone together like snakes and planes. Ear hair and bassists. Milk and...
View ArticleSeriously, What the Hell is Happening to Dance Music Videos?
Seriously, What the Hell is Happening to Dance Music Videos?
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Ted Chalmers Is the King of Mockbusters
Ted Chalmers next to his stand at the Cannes Film Festival. Photo by the author To the uninitiated, mockbusters are cheap-ass movies, stealing the title of blockbusters and piggy-backing on their...
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Gentrification Comes to LA’s Skid Row, and the Homeless Get the Shaft
A street corner in downtown Los Angeles. Photo via Flickr user Toni Heim One of the worst things about being rich is sometimes you're forced to interact with the poor. When not in a sitting in...
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Sothern Exposure: Three Nights at the Wrestling
1959. Missouri. I’m ten years old, impressionable and neurotic, angry at being born and lacking the perspective to know how lucky I am. I’ve got a couple of Viceroy cigarettes I lifted at home and I...
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The George W. Bush Museum Is Just as Infuriating as You Think It Is
George W. Bush is history’s greatest monster you’d like to have a beer with. He’s a fun-loving, DUI-acquiring, shit-kicking everyman like you – a self-defined cowboy who slurred his way through Yale...
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I Didn't Even Take My Purse
Photo by Tim Freccia The events that led to the recent instability of South Sudan culminated on the 14th of December 2013. At the 14th of December meeting of the SPLM’s National Liberation Council...
View ArticleCentral African Republic Bans Text Messages
Central African Republic Bans Text Messages
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Here Be Dragons: Don't Blame Slender Man for the Schoolgirl Stabbing
A chalk drawing of Slender Man (Photo via) On Saturday morning, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser – two 12-year-old girls – lured a classmate into the woods near their homes and stabbed her 19 times. Or,...
View ArticleGround Zero: The Destruction of Daraa - Part 2
In March 2011, Syrian citizens began protesting oppressive government rule in the city of Daraa. Assadi government troops fired on the protesters, resulting in the beginning of the war in Syria. Three...
View ArticleRevealed: The Signs of the Near Future
Futurist predictions in technology can be exciting or downright scary. I was working on a blog post discussing that, when I found myself thinking about the header image more than the text itself. I am...
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