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Posted inNews & Politics

Prime suspects

by Princess Ojiaku January 15, 2020August 18, 2021

How would anyone benefit from sending unsolicited, free Amazon packages to random addresses?

Posted inArts & Culture

The rise of the viral drag queens

by Meggie Gates June 18, 2019August 18, 2021

A generation that grew up queer on the Internet finds a home on Chicago’s drag stages.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How to deal with sex-shaming family members over the holidays

by Dan Savage December 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Dan gives advice to a couple on tumblr, a “free sexual woman,” and the younger half of an age-gap couple, all dreading upcoming gatherings.

Posted inBlogs

In Assassination Nation, as in life, female power can instill fear when it poses a threat to the patriarchy

by Cody Corrall October 1, 2018August 18, 2021

It’s a lesson in taking back agency in a world that constantly tries to strip young women of it.

Posted inBlogs

An Internet-free ‘bookbar’ in Lincoln Park has banned laptops in favor of books and conversation

by Aimee Levitt February 23, 2017August 18, 2021

Kibbitznest Books, Brews & Blarney attempts a return to old-fashioned coffeehouse culture.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Does sex cause STIs?

by Dan Savage July 18, 2013August 19, 2021

Dan on STIs, long-distance commitments, and easier anal play.

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: “You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack” is outsider-hip-hop brilliance

by Luca Cimarusti July 5, 2013August 19, 2021

“You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack” by Viper is an excellent combination of oddball outsider art and Houston hip-hop.

Does watching porn increase sexual deviancy?
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Porn = incesticide?

by Dan Savage June 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Dan on incest fantasies, an overweening mom, and a disability fetish.

Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not 1
Posted inArts & Culture

Collage therapy

by Andrea Gronvall February 4, 2013August 18, 2021

Collages by two artists—one Polish, one Indian—are media for the postmodern age.

The Thinker may be on the cover, but how much thinking did the Economist really do?
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Media innovation, down the tubes

by Michael Miner January 22, 2013August 18, 2021

Has the flush toilet done more for society than the digital revolution? According to some journalists, yes.

Posted inBlogs

Shoenice put my phone number on YouTube

by Luca Cimarusti January 17, 2013August 18, 2021

The Internet’s strangest video star gave my phone number to thousands of his devotees.

Posted inBlogs

Yom Kippur taught me I don’t read so good no mores

by Asher Klein September 27, 2012August 19, 2021

As part of my Yom Kippur fast, I stuck my head in a book instead of a computer. Mensch, it had been a while

Tumblrfication: "All remix everything"
Posted inMusic

Tumblr: threat or menace?

by Miles Raymer April 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Don’t worry, Tumblr isn’t turning creators into mere regurgitators—it’s injecting new blood into an old remix culture

Do not let the spareness of this photo fool you: Lil B claims he's recorded over 1,500 songs.
Posted inMusic

Thank you Based God

by Miles Raymer April 2, 2012August 19, 2021

The weird world of Internet-famous Bay Area rapper Lil B

Posted inBlogs

This is how the Internet is supposed to work

by Kevin Warwick January 31, 2012August 19, 2021

The true purpose of the Internet is revealed

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