BY: LAURA ROJAS Roller derbying has been around since about the 1930s, although not in the same modern, empowering context. In the early 2000s, a women’s derby team started up in Austin, Texas called the Texas Rollergirls. Now, according to…
Dan Mangan talks about fatherhood, philosophy and saying something worthwhile
BY: TYLER FYFE Dan Mangan is a two-time Juno award winner, Polaris Music Prize nominee, and occasional Arts and Culture writer for The Guardian and Huffington Post. Recently, he released his fourth LP, Club Meds and it is pretty obvious…
How Andrew W.K. became our most inspirational artist
By: Daniel Korn In October of 2001, the world was introduced to the majesty of Andrew W.K. through his first single “Party Hard.” It was a melodic, guitar-chugging anthem with lyrics so gloriously dumb they could only be sung behind…
This man cooked and served his genitals at a banquet to make a statement about gender equality.
BY: TJ MOREY Meet Mao Sugiyama, a 24-year old illustrator from Tokyo, Japan, who surgically removed his genitals and auctioned them off for people to munch on. Mao Sugiyama exploded on the twittersphere in 2012 when he tweeted “[Please retweet]…
Is this noise band art or the sound of a cat puking up its own vocal chords?
BY: DANIEL KORN When I called Peter Negroponte – the drummer of Guerilla Toss – at noon on a weekday, he groggily asked me if we could move the interview back an hour. I should have fucking known this would…
Why basic income is the solution to the staggering disparity of wealth
BY: DANIEL KORN We’ve got a big problem. It’s called income inequality; I assume you’ve heard of it. President Obama called it “the defining challenge of our time,” and the Occupy movement rallied around the statistic that the richest 1%…
The world’s first flying cars will be in skies and on highways in the next few years
BY: KHADIJA KHAN Growing up watching the Jetsons, I’ve always anticipated a time where flying cars would be a reality. And finally, the moment we’ve been waiting for is here. It’s called the AeroMobil, and it has been tested in…
This company wants to help you achieve digital immortality
BY: DANIEL KORN It’s that age-old question: why are we here? Biologically speaking, the reason for our existence is simply to pass on our genes. A lot of us still have this urge inside us, but our developed brains have…
Meet the world’s most notorious con artist couple that made millions by forging paintings
BY: SINEAD MULHERN The strokes on his canvas imitate the techniques of artists from eras past. Pick any style and he can mimic it. Wolfgang Beltracchi is known as the world’s most successful forgery artist of all time. He’s notorious…
This hermit survived for 27 years in the woods by stealing canned goods from nearby homes
BY: TED BARNABY For 27 years, canned food, propane tanks and odd clothing articles had been disappearing from the houses of the quiet town of North Pond in Central Maine. Rebellious teenagers were the first suspect, and a few of…
When the world’s largest landfill closed, a city of garbage pickers collapsed
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Sifting through the rot you never know what you might find. When garbage is your specialty, the smell becomes normal, you eat among it sharing space with the vultures and watch for sharp discards jutting out from…
South Park creators went to the Oscars on acid and dressed like women to prove a point (Video)
South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are comedic geniuses and wildly innovative creative minds. They’re also exactly the type of guys you would expect them to be in real life. Known to push limits and cross boundaries on…
My first time at a male strip club
BY: BRIAN CAPITAO The ideal male form takes us back to ancient Greece when the highest compliment one could receive was being compared to a sculpture. Today, we compare men with impeccable bodies to the supposed Greek god—the proverbial Adonis…
At this college, students hire their professors, ride horses, and study for free
BY: TYLER FYFE A single scar of asphalt runs the length of the basin of the Inyo-White Mountains in the isolated desert of Eastern California. This is the only road in or out and located thirty miles from the nearest…
Nature’s most beautiful skating rink is also dangerously flammable (Photos)
BY: SINEAD MULHERN The glassy ice surfaces of Banff National Park’s small lakes are a vision. Peer down at the solid dark mass stretched out in front of you and take in a scene that may look like hundreds of…
This 21-year-old pro baseball player is a millionaire who lives out of a VW camper van
BY: ZOE MELNYK After receiving a $2 million signing bonus with the Toronto Blue Jays, Daniel Norris decided to hit the road with his new dream car—a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van—which incidentally, is also his new dream home. 21-year-old…
Disturbing quotes revealed from the real American Sniper, Chris Kyle
BY: KHADIJA KHAN American Sniper is proving to be brilliant propaganda that reveres American military aggression while conveying Hollywood’s most racist depiction of Arabs that is effectively legitimizing America’s constant bombing crusades across the Middle East. Where Clint Eastwood misses…
This water filtration straw allows you to drink the world’s dirtiest water like a juice box (Video)
BY: KHADIJA KHAN Imagine sipping dirty water filled with feces, bacteria, disease and dead insects but instead tasting pure, clean, filtered water. Instant filtration is impossible, right? Now the LifeStraw by Vestergaard is rapidly changing the way we think about water…
Gold Plated Poop, Piss Christ and 8 modern art pieces will make you question “art”
1: Piss Christ In 1987, Andres Serrano photographed a small crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist’s piss. This piece was the winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts “Awards in Visual Arts” Competition. He stated that although…
How limiting yourself actually helps your creativity (Video)
BY: DANIEL KORN Write something right now. It can be anything you want – prose, poetry, script, diary. It can be on any topic. No word limit. Take however long you need. So, what did you write? Probably nothing, right?…