Everyone’s lifelong dream is to travel the world. Well so is Peter Eich’s, but he’s doing something different. Entrepreneur and founder of several companies based around tourism and cycling – which are now mostly sold – the entrepreneur is traveling…
Expression & Culture
Dropping the F-bomb isn’t so shameful – science says swearing is a sign of a healthy vocabulary
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It was the year 2001; I was in fifth grade and enjoying afternoon recess with my two best friends when they decided to subject me to the ultimate form of childhood torture – tickling. Before I continue,…
Woodland citizens rejected a solar panel farm for fear it would suck up all the sun’s energy.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The town of Woodland, North Carolina recently rejected a solar farm proposal after citizens expressed fears that the panels would suck up all the energy from the sun. The Woodland Town Council rejected a proposal that would…
100-year-old church is transformed into a psychedelic art-covered skate park
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A historic 100-year-old church that sat abandoned and decrepit for years in the Spanish municipality of Llanera, Asturias has undergone a fascinating transformation. It’s one that will draw a different kind devotion – those who subscribe to…
This museum is squashing cell-phone addiction by asking visitors to draw the art instead
BY: JESSICA BEUKER This past summer I visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As I made my way through the paintings, taking pictures of my favourite ones, I looked up and realized something disheartening. Everyone at…
These crazy statistics prove that Woodstock was just as weird as you imagined
BY: DANIEL WATERBOURNE What occurred in 1969 on a dairy farm in the Catskills of Bethel, New York will forever be the subject of rebellious imagination and acid flashbacks. Woodstock would be an event that would define a generation, and…
The League of Lady Wrestlers is strong, independent and completely disgusting
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Sitting on top of a blue garbage can, Garbage Face clenches her eyes and purses her mouth in concentration — and a little constipation — as she pretends to take a shit in the middle of the…
This is how straight men react learning they are in a gay rap music video
BY: JONATHAN MOSS What happens when a group of die-hard hip-hop fans are tricked into being in a gay rapper’s music video? Comedian Ben Bizuneh and F-Comedy recently created a social experiment to test the fallacy that black men are…
Don’t let seasonal affective disorder cut off your happy this winter
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Seasonal affective disorder sucks. The colder months, fall and winter, can be gloomy enough when you live far away from the equator. Adding a crippling serotonin deficiency to the equation seems like a dreadful hurdle to jump,…
It turns out that Pornhub has the best holiday commercial of the year (video)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ahh Christmas time—the fluffy white snow, the twinkling lights, the time spent with family, the presents, the tree, the copious amounts of eggnog, even the commercials are magical. I can say without shame, that I cry every…
A green subterranean oasis is being built for New York City’s west side
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Above the bustling metropolis of New York City, spans the 2.33 kilometre-long High Line. The High Line, a park in Manhattan that was built upon an elevated section of abandoned railroad space, has become one of New…
This artist is making bronze statues of garbage to blindside the ivory towers of art
BY: CONNOR BRIAN I’m contemplating the empty pizza box that sits upon my desk. First I see dinner. Then I see a disposable by-product of an unsustainable consumerist culture. Then I see art. The artwork of Zeke Moores has raised…
I hate to offend you R-word users for being ignorant, but you need to make a change.
BY: REGAN MCNEILL Do you know that scene in the film Tropic Thunder when Robert Downey Junior’s character tells Ben Stiller that going “full retard” never works for actors? Even if you haven’t seen Tropic Thunder this is all you…
Artist brings the pyramids into museums to show how pieces of history are domesticated
BY: DANIKA MOIR Images by Magdalena Jetelová Installed in several locations between 1992 and 1994, Magdalena Jetelová’s installations of the “Domestication of Pyramids” were used as a visual metaphor of the Western ideology. This ideology involved taking bits of history…
I became agnostic to free my mind, after my journey with religion closed it.
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS I walk into a softly lit room with tall ceilings, the powerful sounds of voices joined together in chorus echo between the walls. Having arrived to the service late, I slink into the very back row of…
This is how a small Japanese town recycles, reuses or composts 83 per cent of all waste
The impacts of human industry and waste are largely only realized after the damage has been done. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. Yet remaining ahead of the curve, especially in terms of environmental issues, is critical. This was the…
A punk rocker famously threw shit on people – and they liked it
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE He was fucked from the start. Jesus Christ Allin was born on Aug. 29, 1956 in New Hampshire. He was given his name after his father, Merle Allin, had “visions” of his son being not unlike a…
This man used to hike for two days just to check his emails—then he did something about it
BY: DANIEL WATERBOURNE The Annapurna Region in Nepal is an incredibly remote region, circled by limestone mountains capped with snow. To this day, Nangi is only accessible by foot. So for six years, once a month Mahabir Pun would hike…
These photographs show the new face of the modern family—and it’s beautiful
BY: ALEX BROWN Today’s family is far from the Leave it to Beaver image of nuclear tidiness that it once was. Tattooed moms, same-sex parents and ethnic diversity have increasingly become the face of the modern family—and it’s beautiful. From…
Life at a Japanese Internment Camp: 25 photos of racial incarceration by Ansel Adams
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Photos by © Ansel Adams In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, resulting in 110,000 Japanese-Americans being forcibly relocated to internment camps. Following Pearl Harbour, Japanese-Americans were stripped of their rights and were held subject to…