Safety L.A. vigilante group tackles street safety with DIY crosswalk painting Rusty Blazenhoff

music When the Colombian army sent a secret message to prisoners by creating a hit pop song Ruben Bolling

History In 1932, Australia went to war against emus (the emus won) Ellsworth Toohey

sticks "Official Stick Reviews" highlights cool sticks from all over the world Jennifer Sandlin

News President who wasn't a greedy monster dies at 89 Ellsworth Toohey

art Ward Sutton's faux conservative cartoonist "Kelly" goes highbrow in LA Ruben Bolling

DIY Engineer creates living furniture: The table that walks to you Mark Frauenfelder

Blood in the Machine: the real story of the Luddites Yoy Luadha

audiobooks Get the audiobook for Cory Doctorow's "The Bezzle," read by Wil Wheaton Rob Beschizza

Internet The internet's other archive Rob Beschizza

art Artemizia Foundation in Bisbee, Arizona hosts a spectacular collection of contemporary, street, and graffiti art Jennifer Sandlin

donald trump Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star festooned with a toilet and replica boxes of classified material Jennifer Sandlin

Weird That time the US military tried to make foxes glow in the dark to freak out Japanese soldiers David Pescovitz

Reviews Metacritic takes measures to prevent review bombing Grant St. Clair

los angeles Documentary about 'art heist' instigator Matt Adam's guerrilla game Rusty Blazenhoff

hip hop Bay Area hip-hop archive opens in Oakland library Rusty Blazenhoff

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

Better than agent orange Meet the Rome Plow, the U.S. Army's jungle bulldozer Andrew Yi

mcdonalds Roswell McDonalds: The only outer-space themed McDonalds on earth Popkin

afrofuturism Mark Dery on the "everything, all at once" art and life of Jean-Michel Basquiat Gareth Branwyn