"I'm grateful I never had any encouragement[…] you look at the poets that got encouragement from their parents and they're all shit" What kind of man could single handedly bridge… Read the rest of the article: A documentary on John Cooper Clarke, the poet laureate of punk

Julian Assange has been released from Belmarsh prison. The WikiLeaks founder spent 23 hours a day of his 1,901 days in the maximum security prison in isolation. His release came… Read the rest of the article: Julian Assange released from prison

Last year, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement. The publishers alleged that Internet Archive's Open Library project had no right to… Read the rest of the article: Internet Archive forced to remove half a million books

First, what is article 49.3? Second, why does it suck? Third, why does it have a catchy theme song? Finally, why does the group that performs this tune pour a… Read the rest of the article: Catchy tune, performed by band that pours concrete at every concert, mocks undemocratic rule in French constitution

Twenty-three pairs of twins graduated from Pollard Middle School in Needham, MA this year. That's 46 out of the 454 students enrolled in the school. Nearly 47, actually, but one… Read the rest of the article: 23 pairs of twins graduate from same middle school

Did I say Cornhub? Sorry, Pornhub. Pornhub will be inaccessible in two corn belt states in just a few days, and Pornhub wants users to know about it. Rather than… Read the rest of the article: Cornhub to be culled in Indiana and Kentucky

What'd he do, say something controversial? Talk with his mouth full? Naw, he went the commercial equivalent of going vegan; He signed an endorsement deal with Impossible Foods. Major League… Read the rest of the article: Joey Chestnut banned from Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest

Providence, Rhode Island has produced a few legendary rock acts the last few decades, but as frenetic as Lightning Bolt and aggrieved as The Body are, they aren't thrashing around… Read the rest of the article: Like good ole fashioned emo? Enjoy Scaffolding

Leonard Peltier has spent the last 48 of his 75 years in prison following a controversial trial that found him guilty of murdering two FBI agents. In 1975, the two… Read the rest of the article: Native American activist, dubiously convicted in murder of FBI agents, gets first parole hearing in 15 years

You're probably wondering how I got here. Don't. But if you've ever done the deed, thrown out the evidence and thought, gee, this seems like a waste of good protein,… Read the rest of the article: Cooking isn't hard! Just use this semen cookbook

2015's breathless Fury Road felt like an arcade game, catapulting viewers from spring launcher into the rugged, dusty wasteland of war rig bumpers and war boy multipliers. It's fantastic, made… Read the rest of the article: Review: Furiosa, the softer side of revenge

You don't have to ride the rails, rock a septum piercing and have the voice of an angel to make the best folk punk music in the whole dang world,… Read the rest of the article: Listen to folk punk from hobo heaven

A rodeo bull hopped the fence, charged into a concession area and ran through the parking lot of a rodeo in Sisters, Oregon on Sunday night. The animal was contained… Read the rest of the article: Rodeo bull escapes ring

In the right hands, art history isn't boring at all. In college, "art history" meant a frenzied cramming session of memorizing dates and quadrisyllabic Italian names in time for the… Read the rest of the article: Sister Wendy tells the story of painting

Earthquaker Devices, a great YouTube channel dedicated to the nitty, gritty and sometimes goofy technical specs of musician's equipment, got the chance to grill David Pajo of Slint last year.… Read the rest of the article: Slint's David Pajo talks Frankensteined guitars and 8 Bit pedals

The FBI launched a surprise raid on landlord giant Cortland Management in Atlanta late May of this year. Cortland Management, owner of 85,000 units in thirteen states, follows the recommendations… Read the rest of the article: Landlord giant raided by FBI for algorithmic price fixing

Bill Guan, chief financial officer of the Epoch Times, has been charged with "participating in a transnational scheme to launder at least approximately $67 million of illegally obtained funds to benefit… Read the rest of the article: Epoch Times financial officer, affiliated with Shen Yun, charged with laundering $67M

Sex! Semen! And now that I have your attention, microplastics! Semen! Hormone distruption, reduced sperm count, sperm abnormalities… the future of human reproductive health is looking grim, and it's likely… Read the rest of the article: Microplastics found in every semen test sample in study

That's a little on the nose. The Los Angeles Police Department has done about $150,000 worth of business with dog breeder "Adlerhorst International LLC" over the last five years. LAPD… Read the rest of the article: LAPD buys dogs from breeding company with same name as Hitler's bunker

New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell has racked up an impressive $250,000 bill over the last year, aides have justified her spending as necessary for "accomplish[ing] political and business goals". The… Read the rest of the article: New Orleans mayor spent $250,000 on travel expenses, taxpayers foot the bill