Mask: The Make It Big Issue

What Neopets Taught Me About Life

by Sofie Mikhaylova

Listen: The Acid s/t EP is a spacey, simmering piece of work. We can’t get enough of it.

The one Royals parody worth watching. It gets typecasting, “diversity”, and getting the goods exactly right.

Watch: Kids burn stuff in Madrid. We’d rather be able to afford to eat and sleep in a home; good riot porn is actually a decent consolation prize.

Madonna’s Armpits. A little Hollywood trope to help break up the fuzzy feels re: celebrity armpit hair.

At first, stealing from johns was a perk of the underworld cash economy. If I felt as though they hadn’t paid me enough I could swipe something extra. No need for collections agencies. I never called it stealing. It was “remedial compensation”.

An Honest Dollar: On Kleptomania

by J.P. Tamang

Sarah Shourd

Best Tweets from SXSW written by the people whose job it is to got to places like that and write about being cool and bored.

Betty Blac

Our 2014 SXSW Wager for the coming year. Time will tell, but in the meantime you should listen to them anyway!

DIY: Make a snapback from a fitted cap in just a few simple steps.

If you live in a city that always tells you to be afraid, what happens to the fear once you stop trusting the authorities? At La Colmena, a new social center in Mexico City, the residents hoped to create a space apart from the fear-mongering apparatus, only to find themselves right in the middle of it.

Another White Van across the Street?

by Mariana Roa

Playlist: Daylight Savings. Just in case today didn’t feel off-kilter enough.

So International Women’s Day happened, and it got us thinking about certain trends in girl culture right now. Read our thoughts on what Miley Cyrus, Rookie Mag, Petra Collins, Lorde, Spring Breakers, Princess Nokia, and Illuminati Girl Gang have in common.

Girls Being Raunchy for No One but Themselves

by Hanna Hurr

“You will spend months planning a tour, then drive 700 miles to find out the show got canceled and no one told you.” Andreas Chronis of xDYINGx regrets spending half his life in the back of a tour van.

Punk Rock Ruined My Life

by Andreas Chronis

Let these Southern queers take you on a tour to Beauty World – the “one-stop shop for every fag, hag, and drag in North Carolina.”

Going Ham at Beauty World

by Roxanne Baker

Watch: 2 videos from Yumi Zouma that feel surprisingly honest, and leave us expectant for more.

Horoscopes by Corina Dross

March 2014

With several planets stationing and retrograding, we’re collectively slowed and suspended. For those of you who would love nothing better than to smoke a bowl and headbang in slow motion, this is your time to shine. For the rest of us, strategies below.

Ricky Fohrenbach

Letters by Hanna Hurr

Blame Us for Trying

Our aspirations used to run counter to those of the professional world. But now our craziest ideas are sought out by marketing executives. We used to think we could outsmart the system. Now we see that the only way we can stay in control of our ideas is if we let them run their course within it. What to do with our lives once we have lost the hope in creating alternatives, and have ruled out total destruction? Perhaps you try to “make it.”

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