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How the Armored Car Industry Leaves Workers Unprotected

June 18, 2010, marked the end of Ray Wauson’s third week as an armored-car guard for Triple D Security in Victoria, and the first day they let him carry a gun. An avid hunter, raised in the…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4692 words)

Is the Atlantic making us stupid? » MobyLives

A CIA front? A killer of criticism? A stupid machine?… three delicious shots that have recently been fired at The Atlantic, in what appears to be an uncoordinated campaign against ongoing…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (508 words)

It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood

Wu-Tang member Raekwon is interviewed by Ice-T in Something Out of Nothing and the subject of a rumoured biopic 'Are you the one?" asks the trailer. In March last year, the Los Angeles production…
AUTHOR:Steve Rose
PUBLISHED: July 19, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2254 words)

The Messy Business of Tacos

Unwrapping the history of Mexico's real national snack uncovers classism, dynamite, and shifting definitions of culture. Image from Flickr via Jeremy Brooks The search for authentic Mexican…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2588 words)

Byron Coley on Fug You : An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side and The Family

IN NON-OBSCURANTIST CIRCLES, Ed Sanders is best known for two things. The first of these is his book, The Family. Originally published by Dutton in 1971, it represents Sanders's deep delve into the…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2508 words)

Lyra Kilston on Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design

EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD of Saul Bass, you know his work. From the poster for Hitchcock's Vertigo and the shower scene in Psycho to the logos for AT&T and Quaker Oats to the humble, cheerful…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1641 words)

'They call me the Father of Loud'

‘The Marshall sound is the balls’ … Paul Weller with his Marshall stack in 1981. Photograph: Virginia Turbett/Redferns At the Marshall amplifier factory in Milton Keynes, there's a…
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1535 words)

Trayvon Martin case is a black eye for Sanford

A month and a half before he died in 2011, 27-year-old Jimmie Flanders told his grandmother, Lula King: “I'm not going to live to see 28.” “I wished I had known he was telling the…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4230 words)

The Alienable Rights Of Women

Lately, I read the news and have to make sure I am not, in fact, reading The Onion. We are having a national debate about abortion, birth control and reproductive freedom, and men are directing that…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3497 words)
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