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INTERVIEW: Chris Rock Gets Down to Earth

Eyeing the movie industry, the raunchy comic takes situation comedy from 'PG-13' all the way to 'R'

Chris Rock hits hard and takes no prisoners. Unencumbered and unrelenting, Rock’s outrageously forthright brand of comedy levels potshots at white America, black America, the rich, the poor and, in the end, leaves everyone both a bit insulted and a bit amused. Now, after success in stand-up and on TV, Rock sets his sights on […]

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Buzzcocks Singer Pete Shelley talks Gender Fluidity, Sex, and Selling Out

Whether wryly declaring himself an “Orgasm Addict” or subverting cultural taboos with bi-curious electro anthem “Homospaien,” Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley has always steeped his art in deviant subtext. Some 30+ years after its release, the Buzzcocks’ Singes Going Steady stands next to The Clash’s London Calling and the Sex Pistols’ Nevermind the Bullocks as one […]

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Let's Hush it Up: John Cleese talks Life, Sex and Nearly Headless Nick

Kids know him as Harry Potter’s pal Nearly Headless Nick, but back in the day John Cleese used to be in, like, this thing called Monty Python. This month we’ve got a 20th-anniversary DVD of “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life,” an earlier venture into cinematic near-headlessness. Shall we keep being funny, or shut up and […]

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INTERVIEW: Chuck Palahniuk on Flash Mobs, Fame and Why His Fans Are Literally Passing Out

Bent bodies lay in wait, heads down, arms raised, a homage to the scaly beast. Edged with fuzz, the pained static of a speaker worn beyond use, a snarl surfaces. The creature’s mouth jerks open. 600 bodies writhe in unison, turning as the growl is released. I’m not so much cowering, as kneeling, knees on […]

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The Shins' James Mercer Explains the Fatal Flaw in the Logic of Love

Dope fiends I can handle. Masochists, man-haters, even people who swear Sister Hazel had more than one hit. I can tolerate these things. But thieves in my own home? My original copy of The Shins’ Oh Inverted World went missing two weeks after I bought it; the subsequent burn went in two days. After four […]

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I Mock Idiots

A cigarette break / Interview with Daily Show anger beacon Lewis Black

Wrinkled skin is scary thing. Folds, distorted by pale florescent lights. Sometimes I get a quick shock entering the room because of these things. I’m suddenly afraid I’ve taken on too much, that I’ll freeze up. I’m some kid, and he’s that bitchy old guy from “The Daily Show.” We don’t have anything to talk […]

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Revenue Retrievin’ or Road to Retirement? 

A down-n-dirty Interview with Hyphy legend E-40

The unwavering consistency in E-40′s music over time has earned him one of the most loyal fan bases in hip-hop. While he’s considered by many to be a West Coast rapper, numbers don’t lie: in the internet age, 56 million MySpace plays makes you an international artist. Twenty years after he laid the blueprint for […]

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Living in Excellence

Bill & Ted creator Ed Solomon on his own gnarly legacy...

The year was 1988. These words, as if coming from the very source of all emotion, rang from the screen, and forever laid the century’s best literary works to waste. A nation, in one singular thrust, raised its hands and in a fury of air guitar, pronounced the film to be an undeniably “excellent” adventure. […]

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An Artist with the All-Seeing Eye

Futurist Saya Woolfalk's immersive environments are as much sci-fi as art...

Saya Woolfalk knows more than your average artist about virtual reality, Oculus or otherwise. When it comes immersive environments, the New York artist’s cunning is unmatched. Her installations are more Holodeck than headset; large-scale interdisciplinary works steeped in ecology, the fantasies of Philip K. Dick, feminist theory, and a yearning for a post-racial, post-gender society. More […]

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