The Post-Friendship Issue

RIOT, a Radical Queer Pride Fantasy

by Hanna Hurr

With many lovers, it gets complicated. But perhaps that’s the only way to love.

On Polydrama

by J.P. Tamang

A skateboard high school? Yep, that’s a thing in Malmö, Sweden.

Anon Dominatrix

Drones against animal cruelty? Will Potter is running a kickstarter to fund drones for reporting on cruel conditions at factory farms across the country.

Rich kid of Instagram loses $850 000 worth of luxury cars in repeated arson attacks.

Why you should never stay at a party later than 2:00 am. Staying later than that never leads to anything good. Well, almost never.

Small Plates by Olivia Starkie

Honey Traps and Pasta Sauce

Our new food columnist introduces us to a legendary and affordable pasta sauce her family has used to snare lovers for at least two generations.

Violent Vickie

Junglepussy released her debut album “Satisfaction Guaranteed” this week. This Brooklyn-based style icon is a vixen about to blow up.

Three Kings

The World Cup starts today, and with it the culmination of a much longer power battle between Brazilians resisting the World Cup and the authorities working to defend it.

The World Cup Mega-Disaster Is On

by Hanna Hurr

A Comic about Idapalooza

Pop music has commodified riots and revolt so much it’s spilling back onto real life, inspiring rebellion among students at public universities across the country.

A Year of Pop Music and Party Riots

by – Anonymous

I recently found a list entitled “2013,” in which the only two entries were: 1. BAND, 2. RIFFS, neither of which happened. Here's a few things that are on my list this summer.

How to Have a Fun Summer for Less Money

by Katie Thornton

My day job is to give sensual body rubs to men — mostly middle-aged, married, slightly overweight and moderately unattractive men. This is how I make my living as a writer.

I Work as a ‘Sensual Masseuse’

Horoscopes by Corina Dross

June 2014

Oh-oh! There will be battles all around this month, and some will be far subtler than others. Read your horoscopes to soak in whatever feels restorative. Shake off the excess when you’re done.

Letters by Tyler Reinhard

It's All about Who You Know

We abandoned the “activist” for a new kind of organizing. One based on friendship, affinity, and common enmity. Friendship, though, is as old as political power itself. In this letter from the editors, our thoughts on why, from now on, all friendship is nepotism.

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