Chicago IRL #4: ABOUT THIS PROJECT Chicago IRL (In Real Life) is an arts and literary digest cataloging contemporary queer creative culture in Chicago. We document not only existing queer talent but also create new collaborations and explorations.Chicago IRL launched in June 2011 and is ...

If you have spent any time browsing adult-male-bearded-sleaze lately on Tumblr you may have come across the Tumblr named  Mustache Rides For All. This photo blog is not for the vanilla and all though it is filled with loads and ...

New York, time to wake the fuck up. It's Chloe time you lucky bitches! GOOD EVENING AMERICA, HERES "CHLOE SEVIGNY" AND SHE'S A DISC JOCQU3. MAKING HER DJ DEBUT IS THE WONDERFUL, IRREVERENT, STYLE ICON SISTER WIFE AND FRIEND TO NATASHA LYONNE ...

Bearmageddon is a story about a few every-day twenty-somethings getting caught up in an all-out war on mankind by grizzly bears. That’s all I’m going to say for now because I don’t want to spoil anything. Bearmageddon is written, penciled and inked ...

Do yourself a favor and turn off the television for 4 minutes and watch this sweet video and song by Sweet Sweet Moon who  performs “Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call” (Weakerthans cover). His EP Pomidou is out now on Siluh Records, and he’s ...

Giving up your tickets to the theater might be a smart choice as fashion lookbooks and photo shoots of collections these days have given us front row seats and a mind full of thoughts to play with. Designer Maria Thomas ...

An Englishman living in Canada. Mathew Parsons is a dedicated fine art photography graduate who is passionate about imagery as a form of expression and communication. He spotlights and puts emphasis on self-challenge, within the realms of photography and video, ...

Artist and beard connoisseur Chris Sollars takes one of his afternoon walks making public sculptures with found trash and debris on the streets of his San Francisco Mission neighborhood. Sollars documents the sculptures with photos and leaves them behind. Sollars ...

Scanning through men's fashion blog today you might end up being converted to having a fetish for shaggy homeless men. The male models in a large percent of campaigns for Fall/ Winter 2012 are beastly handsome with manes of luscious ...

Does this mean that Frances Bean Cobain will be stepping into the spotlight? We would all be tuned in, don't deny it. via Advocate A new photo shoot with Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of late rock icon Kurt Cobain and musician-actress-personality ...

I think when I grow up I'm going to be  preppy. What does that entail, I ask? First I will run and jump into this comfy, classic looking crewneck sweater. I have always found guys covered in tattoos dressed preppy ...

Mondonna, Pat Benetar, Duran Duran, Wham! and Thompson Twins are the first bands that come to mind. Here is the original broadcast : MTV Launch Day One 12:01 am Saturday August 1st, 1981 Video # 1 This is why Youtube is ...

I believe most writers learn a lot about themselves through writing about others and thinking about your reading audience. Adam Lambert does not fit into my music box but I am all about applauding for a gay brother. As I race ...

This photo you are looking at has caused ripples in the fashion world and has brought attention to the term "implied nudity." Model Thylane Loubry Blondeau is 10 yrs old in the photograph. Freedom of choice, freedom of expression all plays a ...

One of my non-guilty pleasures is NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts. Musicians chosen wisely. I'm not sure but I think NPR may have me in mind and smoke grass (a lot). If this is your first time or you missed this one, ...

I will do Opening Ceremony  the favor of holding off judgment until I see the whole collection, as they say they are holding back from showing the full collection yet. The missing pieces will have to fight an uphill battle in ...

 ELEPHANT "they make LGBT culture look something like that acid trip that nearly killed you." To fight for your own identity is to fight for everyone’s. Our message is in our DNA. Being yourself and embracing it, owning it, maybe the message ...

Bay Area Now 6, the triennial exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts devoted to regional artists who work across disciplines from performance to visual art, to film and video, brought Out There toYBCA last Friday night for the show's opening ...

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Oh lord, I want to lather on Marianne Faithfull's new album 'Horses and High Heels' on my skin like a coating of protection. This album is as strong as all her previous work and she keeps true to herself and her dark, ...

I mean, I like to chew on my own toe nails while I watch Jeopardy and eat my TV dinner. Don't you? Whether this story is fact or fiction I don't care. Quentin races through my blood and tickles all ...

As a young man I was obsessed with Hulk Hogan for a selected period of my youth. Growing up in a litter of 4 brothers our bedrooms were often turned into WWF platforms. I even cuddled my 12" tall Hulk ...

Via Curatedmag.com Seen above, Jim Darling’s Tank installation makes up a small portion of Inside Out, an exhibition featuring new work by Jim and his partner Tina. Together, the artists explore the idea of home and the various places people choose to live. Jim ...

Artists Thomas Hooper and Chris O'Donnell collaborate on full back tattoo. Session one. Music: This Will Destroy You. Now I have a tattoo itch I need scratched, BAD.

 (via NYMAG) Bob Mould needed punk rock. For a big, angry, closeted math-whiz teenager in the outer reaches of upstate New York—where the record store was an hour away, in the metropolis of Plattsburgh—listening to the Ramones, studying the sleeve the record ...