U.S.A. ! U.S.A.! vol. 76

Armed Militiamen Occupy Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and Threaten Showdown With Feds

Response to Oregon Militia Standoff Reveals Stark Double Standards

Awww Yeah vol. 45

Paid dating with teenage students thriving in Japan

"Infantilised sex culture" under the spotlight as UN expert urges more action to stop exploitation of young girls.

Awww Yeah vol. 44 / Negation Aspiration vol. 10

He left a note on the door: “I’m killing myself, the key is with Claude Fonsale, the lawyer.” Beside his corpse was a second note, railing against “all the bastards who have been a pain in the arse all my bloody life”. Molinier staged his death, just as he staged so much of his life. He found it amusing, he once wrote, that those who would come to dissect his corpse (which he had donated to science) would discover his toenails immaculately painted red. Molinier, who also had a thing about guns, shot himself in the mouth in front of a mirror. He wanted to watch. Throughout his work there is a quest for obliteration, losing himself in sex and in the merger with a fantasised feminine alter ego.

Pioneer of perversity: Pierre Molinier's extreme exposures 
High-heeled, corseted, impaled, auto-fellating ... Molinier’s fantasy photographs open a window on a forbidden world – and have made him a cult figure. Do not try this at home

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 226

8 Indie Horror Films To Scream For In 2016

Negation Aspiration vol. 9

Disturbing, not pleasing, should be art’s role

Belgian festival director and curator Frie Leysen challenged Australian artists and arts organisations to be bold, and to challenge an increasingly ossified status quo in her closing keynote address at the 2015 Australian Theatre Forum(ATF).

‘We created a culture of “pleasing” that is now hijacking us,’ she said. ‘We want to please everybody: the audiences, the subscribers, the sponsors, the press, the colleagues… a big mistake!

‘Art should not please. On the contrary. Art has to show where it hurts in our societies, in our world. We urgently need the courage back to pick up this role of disturbers again.’

Thank You For This Friendly World vol. 19

Busted ex-police chief blocked FBI probe of Gilgo Beach murders

"That’s because he learned he was in the FBI’s cross hairs for assaulting Christopher Loeb, who allegedly stole his sex toys, " 

Long Island is the Florida of New York.

Awww Yeah vol. 43

Bret Easton Ellis on James Deen Rape Claims: "A Ridiculous Witch Hunt" (Exclusive)