Does the digital age ruin subcultures?

An interesting snack for thought: with all types of media and culture now widely accessible on the web, can subcultures stay underground anymore? Or are indie kids all too willing to be in the Facebook spotlight,...

Mexican Human Rights Commission to investigate attacks against emos

"Mexican Human Rights Commission to investigate attacks against emos Posted on March 31, 2008 by MexicoReporter | Edit Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission is to investigate all of the reported cases of aggression against the emo youth subculture...

California lowriders become art, big business

I've always been a fan of lowriders.  Not so good with the kids car seats but hard to beat their style.  Maybe I'll trade in the kids and get myself one in the name of art."LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!)...

Amnesty International Film Festival | 8 - 11 November 2007

12th annual Amnesty International Film Festival is pleased to present a program of powerful and compelling films. Vancouver is leading the forum on human rights and environmental policies.

Colombians protest violence through flashmob photos

A flash mob in Bogota, Colombia, gathered in Estacion Heroes for a mass-photography session. Please have a look at some of the amazing photos which have already come in. This particular flash mob idea has already...

The Solution To Columbine Syndrome

" The Columbine syndrome is the psychosis of using video games as a similcarum for reality. As we saw at Dawson College. But have no fear capitalism provides the virtual solution.Computer Games Prepare Battlefield Medics"

The Spectre of Charles Whitman

"As I wrote on the case of the murderous teenage couple in Medicine Hat earlier this year, who paralled the Charles Starkweather murders almost fifty years before there is an earlier cultural archtype for the campus shooter in the Charles Whitman case."

Gill In the Armed Forces

"The Dawson College killer had a brief stint in the Canadian Armed Forces. Showing again the authoritarian personality that would be evoked this week in Montreal."

A Bit of Cincinnati in New Delhi

"As fireworks boomed across nearby New Delhi and families lit candles and incense and prayed late into the evening, thousands of call-center agents reported to work at a gleaming office tower. Donning headsets and fake American names, they placed and fielded phone calls to...

The new ubiquity of <i>tai ke</i>

"BLUE AND white plastic slippers, chews betel nut, drinks energy drinks, smokes Long Life yellows, anywhere anytime keeps the diao-ga-aa shirt (the Taiwanese wife-beater) rolled up to let the stomach breath. When du lan (pissed off), it's either "Kao bei ah!"...

New Age Libertarian Manifesto

The counter culture in America began in 1946 twenty years before it would become a mass culture in America. And its prophet was Jack Parsons.

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