shoes Birkinstocks are Birkenstocks made from destroyed luxury Birkin bags Rusty Blazenhoff

fashion Empty souls, empty heads: Rich idiots dropping $400 on Labubu dolls Ellsworth Toohey

mistakes Birkenstocks are footware, not art, says German court Rob Beschizza

class action lawsuits Lawsuit exposes Hermès's snobbery and allegedly illegal sales tactics Mark Frauenfelder

fashion Stomp around like a cartoon character in these nutso yellow Croc boots David Pescovitz

rock and roll Iggy Pop on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979 Gareth Branwyn

media Prince Charles' gay scandal, Tom Cruise destroys Scientology, and Michael Jackson's afterlife, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

trump Today in "do not give this asshole your money": the Michael Cohen Truth Fund Gina Loukareas

Business The quest for the well-labeled inn Cory Doctorow

Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self Mark Dery

music Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe