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Russian LGBTQ activist Ira Putilova Is Free for Now
Ira Putilova (photo by Faith Taylor) If Ira Putilova had been deported to Russia by the Home Office this week, she’d have been slung into prison as soon as she arrived. Ira, an LGBTQ activist, spent...
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We Spoke to Larry Flynt About the Execution of the Man Who Shot Him
Larry Flynt (Photo via) Larry Flynt has been in the press lately for something a bit more grim than freedom of speech or porn. The 71-year-old media tycoon has been speaking out about the death...
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Bruce Pavitt Was 'There', Man
Bruce on tour in 1989 with Nirvana, Mudhoney and TAD's "Heavier Than Heaven" tour You may not know who Bruce Pavitt is, but you know all about the indie label he pioneered in the 1990s, Sub Pop...
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What Do Old People Think About the Rap Music of 2013?
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This Guy Is Charting London's Drug Use with a Discarded Baggie Map
A collage of some of the baggies Dan has come across (Click to enlarge) What do you do with your leftover drug paraphernalia? Unless you're one of those ambitious stoner hoarders who insists on...
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A Woman Got Locked Inside a Bathroom and Clawed Her Way Through the Wall to...
Ronnie Perrin. Screencap via Fox News. If you've ever endured a dull office job, you'll understand the unique form of sanctuary that a restroom can provide. Stressful presentation? Colleague...
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London's Students Reclaimed Their Campus Yesterday
Somewhere around 4,000 students protested in London yesterday against what they feel to be an overbearing police presence on their campuses. The police did their best to render it a non-event by...
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I Spent a Day in Gywneth Paltrow's Shoes
(Thumbnail via) Early last week, owner of a cursed vagina and mother of Gwyneth Paltrow, Blythe Danner, said that she felt criticism of her daughter was unfair and fuelled by jealousy. Speaking to...
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La Longue Nuit de Mégantic
All photos by Michel Huneault / Cosmos / Polaris It was dawn on a warm summer night in Lac-Mégantic when a stranger stopped me in the streets. I asked if he was okay. Visibly shaken, the man replied:...
View ArticleWatch Eron Alkan's Debut Video, "A Hold On Love"
Watch Eron Alkan's Debut Video, "A Hold On Love"
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No, Google Autocomplete Can't Make You an Unwitting Terrorist
Image via Jeffrey Kantor, a former government contractor in Virginia, is suing the government because he believes they launched an elaborate campaign of harassment against him based almost entirely on...
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Will America and Western Europe Pay Out to Slave Descendants?
A slave market in Atlanta, Georgia (photo via) Britain formally put an end to its slave trade in 1807, but it took another three decades for the Empire to free its last slaves in the Caribbean. By...
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What if Lawyers Wrote Ads?
Image via Lawyers are to creativity what the Gatling gun was to the Spaniards at San Juan Hill. The amount of human ingenuity that has been killed dead, forever, by attorneys throughout history is...
View ArticleMotherboard: The New Kings of Kong
Hank Chien is an affable 39-year-old Harvard graduate with his own plastic surgery practice in Queens, NY. He also holds the Guinness World Record for the original arcade version of Donkey Kong, with...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Michael and Nova Smith ABC News via Reddit The incident: A McDonald's worker allegedly forgot to...
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New Zealand Ghost Hunters
From left to right: Brenda Huggins, George Shiels, Victoria Edmonds, Catherine Nichol, and Jaimie Steel Palmerston North is a picturesque university town on New Zealand’s North Island. It’s home to...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Sean Malto - Part 1
VICE: Over the last couple of seasons you’ve focused largely on veteran pros with long histories in the skate world. Compared to some of them, Sean Malto is a new jack. Did working with him require a...
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A Holiday Gift Guide for Bigots
"I SUPPORT TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE" Stocking ($16.50) available from CafePress It's Christmas time. And just because you're a piece of shit with repellant views doesn't mean you shouldn't get to enjoy...
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