BY: M. TOMOSKI A giant turd has marked the streets of Manhattan and taken the country by storm, with a blond comb-over and a face with the familiar squinty-eyed pout. Though that turd is not the Donald, it’s certainly made…
Expression & Culture
How do you know you’re going to do something, until you actually do it?
BY: Adrian Smith After setting up our apartment in the fall, my roommates and I decided we’d get a canvas and paint something we could hang in the living room. It was pretty plain, with nothing but a plastic tree.…
5 films that will lift your spirits and convince you to see the world
BY: CAROLINE ROLF As beautiful as reality may be, it never seems quite as impressive as what’s on the big screen. If there is one genre of movie that can inspire change in your life and make you lust for…
This new gourmet restaurant is in a prison and is run by the inmates
By: JACK M. InGalera is Italian slang for “in prison”. It’s also the name of a new high-end restaurant just outside Milan, Italy. And talking about another great restaurant in Italy would be a bit of a snooze-fest, about…
Haunting photos of Atomic City, Idaho, reveal post-apocalyptic America, pre-apocalypse.
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the fall of 1985, photographer David T. Hanson drove across the American west, photographing the social landscape of a booming nation. Atomic City, an abandoned nuclear town in Idaho dating back to the ’50s, didn’t make…
For true happiness, follow your own checklist—not society’s
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO I recently learned the term “tiger style,” which refers to a strict and demanding parent who pushes their children to pursue high levels of achievement. Supposedly, this is done to ensure the success of the children in…
Science proves that everyone can be creative. Here’s how.
BY: SWIKAR OLI Solving a problem creatively demands the sort of non-linear thinking that frees us from everyday, familiar reasoning. This is the crucial step to creative problem-solving that’s perhaps the most hard for people to overcome when trying to…
Costa Rica’s Land of the Strays is A Free-Roaming Pup’s Paradise
BY: M. TOMOSKI In Costa Rica’s Heredia province, the Territorio de Zaguatas, or the Land of the Strays, is a dog lover’s dream and home to nearly 1,000 free-roaming mixed breeds. Founded by a local couple, Territorio de Zaguatas is…
This law will consider teenagers to be child porn distributors if they are caught sexting
BY: Mariya Guzova You may be surprised to learn that in Colorado, teens can currently be charged with distributing child pornography if they are caught sexting. The offense could force them to register as sex offenders, and face house arrest,…
Will Canada’s Cannabis Future Be a Stoner’s Paradise or Corporate Nightmare?
M.TOMOSKI In the Nixon administration’s hallmark hammering tone, John Ehrlichman, a former aide to the President, summed up the motivation behind the War on Drugs by saying, “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had…
This Colorado weed club has found the perfect way to get people to clean up their community: free pot
BY: TREVOR HEWITT A Colorado marijuana club is offering anyone who comes out to pick up trash on 4/20 a free joint. The Pothole, a weed club in Colorado Springs, Colo., already hosted its first clean-up event on March 20.…
Those flashes of genius you have can be trained to happen more frequently
BY: SWIKAR OLI Despite the popular assumption, creativity is not a capricious muse, continually teasing then eluding writers and artists, revealing only a brief fragment of itself in flight before disappearing, often before we can assimilate the shades of their essence.…
New restaurant dedicated to stoners offers the ultimate menu for late-night munchies
BY: JESSICA BEUKER D’Munchies is owned by Richard Chand and chef David Pyne, who’s worked in kitchens around Sydney for 11 years. “It’s pretty obvious how the idea came about. It’s a very loud statement, but that’s sort of what…
Ira Glass delivers the honest truth about being a creative
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Creatives—the ones who want to produce meaningful things and give to the world the best parts of themselves and their work face an ongoing problem. In the beginning your ambitions, dreams and ideas about the things you…
Is it time to abolish the concrete, soul-sucking office once and for all?
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Only a decade or so ago, it was normal and necessary to have an office, perhaps a cubicle or an open-office layout. This is where meetings took place, co-workers caught up and ideally completed work. However, with technology…
An interview with the photographer who smuggled photos of the world’s most secretive nation (photos)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN North Korea is infamous for strange tourist stories. Visitors of Pyongyang return convinced that their entire experience—perhaps the entire city—is staged. The buildings, streets, restaurants and homes are mostly vacant, save the actors hired to impress the…
Thanks for being a vegetarian: you’re literally helping end climate change
BY: ALEX BROWN In 2014, filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn released Cowspiracy, a controversial documentary exploring one of the leading causes of greenhouse gas emissions: animal agriculture. The narrative drove home a widespread apprehension to confront the issue. Many…
An intimate look into the Asian village where women hold the power
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Located in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, and known as ‘God’s own garden’, sits one of the most pristine villages in Asia – Mawlynnong Village. The village is home to the Khasi people, who continue to…
How supermarkets trick us into buying more than we really need
By: JACK M. Gone is the day when a grocery store was a place where you’d just go to pick up your weekly groceries. Times have changed, and today’s supermarkets use every trick in the book to get you…
Salvador Dali’s erotic cookbook gives new meaning to food porn
BY: M. TOMOSKI From furnitures to films and exotic pets, Salvador Dali lived in a world that only he could imagine. So it’s no surprise that his food also derives from there. Published in 1973, “Les Diner des GALA” is…