Cameras and Cops: 5 Things You Need to Know Allan MacDonellJanuary 30, 2018 It may hurt to find out that the police don't like attention. If it hadn’t been for George Holliday, a lone untrained citizen wielding a ...
The Twitter Counterrevolution Allan MacDonellJanuary 29, 2018 As goes Twitter, so goes the Internet. Can online activists beat government hackers? The Crowd-Sourced Revolution: In June 2009, tens of ...
Remember When Harvey Weinstein Was Promoting His Anti-Bullying Movie? Allan MacDonellJanuary 29, 2018 Oscar’s favorite producer has an appetite for passion projects. Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, Sin City, Finding Neverland, Project R...
The Dalai Lama Has a Self-Immolation Problem Allan MacDonellJanuary 29, 2018 Tibet’s Buddhist monks keep setting themselves aflame. Why? The branding imagery of Tibet’s Buddhist monks incorporates visuals of prayer...
Ex-Head of Russian NASA: ‘Huge Luck’ Is Only Defense Against Nuclear Catastrophe Allan MacDonellJanuary 26, 2018 Roald Sagdeev, a Gorbachev adviser at the 1986 Reykjavik summit, recalls ‘the blunder.’ Dr. Roald Sagdeev’s perspective on the 1986 nucle...
That Time Egypt Kicked Out U.S. NGOs as if We Were Russian Spies Allan MacDonellJanuary 26, 2018 Some non-government organizations are more governmental than others. The generals of Egypt’s Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) ...
Why TV Hates Poor People Crissy Van MeterJanuary 20, 2018 Because rich people situations are so much easier to look at. I just finished Master of None, and I liked many things about it.&n...
Lou Reed: Did a Worse Hateful Bitch Ever Live? Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 Reed's biographer thinks the writer of "Vicious" was more complicated than that. An Interview With Howard Sounes, Author of Notes ...
Trimming Bud in Detroit: Great Work if You Can Hack It Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 Seasonal labor at the intersection of boom and doom. Detroit’s a watering hole for all types of criminals,” says a friend we'll call Z ...
New York Rap Queen Junglepussy’s Favorite Words: ‘Love Thyself’ Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 Try on Shayna McHayle's perspective as your own. I want the music to be truly uplifting. Not just uplifting in the sense that I d...
Juliet Escoria: ‘Fuck It. I’m Just Going to Write Poetry’ Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 It's time to read a fuckin' book. Juliet Escoria's poetry debut, Witch Hunt, out in May from Lazy Fascist Press, is sad and funny...
‘Supremacist’ Author David Shapiro on Lurking for Meaning Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 If 'Supremacist' is a joke, it's a joke based on the joke that is Supreme. David Shapiro's Supremacist is a perfect modern novel,...
Scott McClanahan Takes the Devil Out of Daniel Johnston Lindsay MaHarryJanuary 19, 2018 Look what happens when literary iconoclast meets anti-icon. In 1984, Austin, Texas, musical savant Daniel Johnston sang, "Don't be sad I kn...
The Drug Testing Industry Makes War on America’s Workforce Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 A drug test is required to work in this country, and to be unemployed too? Until there is such a thing as a guaranteed minimum income in th...
Investing in Marijuana Stocks: Can’t Tell the Smoke From the Mirrors Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 Just stick to a tried-and-true pyramid scheme. During the first week of February 2017, 86-year-old former United States Senator Mike G...
The Bad Sex in Fiction Award Is a Lie Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 Announcing the Skeeve's new, improved Bad Sex in Fiction Prize. In real life, bad sex is a relative term. When engaged in by one or more in...
‘Chasing the Dragon’: DEA’s Opiate Scare Flick OD’s on Denial Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 A lurid mix of brutal honesty and fatal flaws. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration have combined fo...
A Tale of Two Drug Wars: Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte vs Team USA Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 Duterte declares open season on suspected dealers and users. The slaughter unleashed by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s death squads...
Lenny Bruce Died 50 Years Ago So You’ll Never Have To Allan MacDonellJanuary 18, 2018 But his spirit lives on, right? Like in a way? Comedian Lenny Bruce has not had a hit of dope for 50 years, but he got off the stuff the ha...
When Walt Disney Marketed to Acid-Heads Mike McPaddenJanuary 17, 2018 Strap on your mouse ears; we’re taking a trip. Fantasia (1940), Walt Disney’s grand experiment in marrying classical...
My Love Affair With Korean Spa Jarell PerryJanuary 17, 2018 Like all great loves, it starts with wearing no clothes. It’s 9:30 on a Sunday night, and I’m polishing off a patio cocktail with new frien...
EMDR Therapy: Undoing the Damage Your Frantic Brain Will Do Adrienne AirhartJanuary 17, 2018 Can crazy eye movements put your disturbing memories in place? You know how you always feel better after a good night’s sleep? Maybe that’s...
Let’s Go Chasing Through Mongolia on the Trail of Genghis Khan Lila SeidmanJanuary 13, 2018 Come along and see what it means to party like a Mongol. A foreigner actually gave the name Chinggis Khan to his dog,” says Munkhtsat...
Smoking Weed While Pregnant Can Land You in Prison Lila SeidmanJanuary 13, 2018 Because the War on Drugs fits so well with the War on Women. On March 6, 2016, Alabama resident Sandra Louise Terry gave birth to a baby bo...
My Dad Is Building His Own Viking Funeral Lila SeidmanJanuary 12, 2018 Parents: Can't live with 'em; can't tie 'em to a mast and set it to sea. The whole thing is my fault, actually. Three years ago, I was on t...
