So: rising in social class through the use of labor and capital. Sticking together as a family. And the struggle for black identity in America. If I had to capture the opposite of those three concepts in a single symbol, it’d be a North Carolina hipster playing a trombone on his iPhone.

Come summer, inboxes around the world start to fill with the same old messages claiming that on August 27, Mars will come so close to the Earth that it will appear as large as the full moon in the night sky. This year, the hoax itself has received a lot more attention than usual, which makes the University of Toronto Libraries Department’s celebration of the "closest approach of Mars in recorded history" even more embarrassing.

very strong beer, a history in the U.S.

One man attempts to build a subway station against tremendous odds and any kind of sanity.

saved for the Saudi Prince story.

"Christianity" has essentially become a mechanism for allowing millions of people to replace being a decent human being with something else, an endorsed "spiritual" substitute.

The heart of juggalo life, captured on film. Oh dear.

The firefighters’ union has made an interactive map of the reductions in service coming with budget cuts.

A LEGO orrery!

"bacon and cheese stuffed pizza" this is how an empire falls

Keep Irvine weird? A list of bizarre crimes in OC’s most sterile suburb.