Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
Louisiana High Court: Priests Have a “Property Right” Not to Be Sued For Sexual Abuse
Over the course of years in the 1970s, several boys between the ages of eight and fourteen in St. Martinville, Louisiana, were repeatedly sexually assaulted by their parish priest, suffering…
Fuck You Press Archive
It was a good day when I finally got my hands on Fuck You Vol. 5/No. 7. Quite possibly the coolest, hippest magazine of the mimeo revolution (Fuck You epitomized…
In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson
There was a time when the law, including the FBI, and social scientists maintained that wife-beating did not exist in the United States. Eventually the FBI did estimate that a…
The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’
Thirty years ago, a humble silver bus was transformed into a cinematic icon when the low-budget Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert became a heart-warming, Oscar-winning…
Detroit child with measles exposed others at Children’s Hospital, urgent care, pharmacy
A 4-year-old from Detroit has a confirmed case of the measles, and potentially exposed others while seeking treatment for the highly infectious virus at DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan, an…
French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris
culling cars has been far more popular than her petrolhead critics predicted, with Paris becoming cleaner and healthier to boot.
Lakeside isn’t dead. It’s awaiting a $1B rebirth. Can Michigan malls follow?
plans for Michigan’s most expensive mall redevelopment ever and rebirth as Lakeside Town Center Sterling Heights officials have spent a decade studying how to reimagine the 110 acres that house…
The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
Last week, the nation’s largest prison and jail telecom corporation, Securus, effectively defaulted on more than a billion dollars of debt. After decades of preying on incarcerated people and their…
Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow
The Russian republic of Chechnya has banned dance music it deems either too fast or too slow, in an attempt to quash a “polluting” western influence on the conservative majority-Muslim…