Volume 18 Issue 5
For My Dead Homies
We approach the Cementerio General del Sur in Caracas in the back of a cab with darkly tinted windows. Fourteen thousand people were murdered in Venezuela in 2010, and Caracas is widely regarded as one of the most violent cities in the world. The...
Blonde with an Edge
Beautiful Liverpool, our new feature-length documentary, was made by Andy Capper and Leo Leigh as a follow-up to Swansea Love Story. The idea behind Beautiful Liverpool was to take a lighthearted look at the lives of the glamour...
Pleasure to Meet You, Rainbow Guy
Thirty years ago, Rainbow Guy (aka Guy Feldmann) was divinely inspired to change his gypsy ways, settle down, and complete two very important missions: build the Temple, a nondenominational gathering place devoted to the pursuit of truth, and burrow an...
Dragging Frame
Dr. Neil Ashby is a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research emphasizes the practical applications of theoretical general relativity.
Velocity Boys
British pop history is littered with strange people who’ve spent their lives punching above their weight. These are the characters who exploit the pressure-cooker music-biz landscape to turn the temperature knob up to whatever the temperature of...
Life Is a Cosmic Giggle on the Breath of the Universe
There is no facile synthesis of the events that transpired at the Wamego missile silo between October 1 and November 4, 2000. The available information is a viscous solution of truths, half-lies, three-quarter truths, and outright lies, the...
Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy
Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy (yeah, that's the actual title) is the prequel and follow-up to 2009's Dissidia Final Fantasy, a 3-D fighting game that featured characters from each installment of Square Enix's long-running Final Fantasy JRPGs.