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There’s No Place Like Home: How An April Fool’s Joke Became A Social Movement Created By, And For, The Masses

“There is an empty canvas. You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something....

Our American Way

Operator, Well Could You Help Me Place This Call?

Our American Song

Features Miranda Rosenblum

Queer Millennials Online | Miranda Rosenblum

Millennials are the first generation to grow up with the internet. The rise of the internet incited a significant transformation in the experience of...

Features Izzy Pezzulo

Origin Story | Izzy Pezzulo

“We get the feeling that we haven’t truly begun to inhabit networks—the more ecstatic and catastrophic modes of interconnection remain to be tested.” –John...

Damian Hondares

Fear and Loathing in GTA V: Where the Wave Broke

“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught,” Hunter Thompson wrote in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in...

Columns Michael Leonberger

Our American Monster

So much of this year has felt like the thing from the grave. Just a rotting monster pulling itself out of the crypt, skin...

Columns Michael Leonberger

The Face of Terror

Our cultural homogeny is one of those happy myths historians gravitate to. The spinal column that any history of a place is based upon,...

Damian Hondares

Isn’t It Ironic?

For the record… According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of irony is: “the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think...

Andrew Jones Columns

The Evolution of Convenience, From Blockbuster to #NetflixAndChill

Some of my fondest childhood memories involved going to Blockbuster with my dad after school. At our local branch, there was a large board...

Columns Keaton Fox

This is a recap. This is a rehash. This is an update.

A lot has happened over the past few minutes, months, and moons. The world has become increasingly violent (Mercury Retrograde), Facebook now allows us...

Columns Michael Leonberger

World’s Finest

Superman is Jewish. I think that’s something the modern myth makers over at the DC Extended Universe don’t really care to reflect. They assume...

Andrew Jones Columns

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I’m not the most coordinated guy in the world, but since this past Christmas I’ve tried to make a conscience effort to eat healthy...

Columns Michael Leonberger

It’s Not Easy Having a Good Time

So there’s this paperback anthology coming out called Sirens, curated by the wonderful Rhonda Parrish, and I have a short story in it! My...

Andrew Jones Columns

Red Rover, Red Rover…

From the death of Muhammad Ali, to Hillary “clinching” the Democratic presidential nomination, to the shooting at the UCLA campus, this past week has...

Columns Michael Leonberger

Bloody or Redundant

There is a common question amongst people in my age bracket, a telling anthropological detail for anyone keeping score in the future. It goes...