festivals festivals festivals Paynie shows us Lightning in a Bottle 2016 Jason Weisberger

music Enjoy some old-timey, ragtimey music from The Vaudevillian David Pescovitz

vote California Republicans sue to stop mail-in voter ballots Thom Dunn

interviews Talking Comics with Ignatz Award-Winning Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver Jeffery Klaehn

cannabis Celebrate 4/20 by watching the weed exploitation classic Reefer Madness David Pescovitz

Comics Read the first 10 chapters of my serialized Comic-con satire novel Thom Dunn

badass kids Irish storyteller cleans up his act after kid reads him the riot act Seamus Bellamy

music Marvelous mix of chill-out, ambient, and experimental sounds from DF Tram David Pescovitz

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

puppets Check out these awesomely creepy puppets of microbial creatures Thom Dunn

music What's cooler than being cool? Hundreds of musicians protesting ICE and Amazon Thom Dunn

facial recognition We killed facial recognition at music festivals: next, we kill it everywhere Cory Doctorow

facial recognition Which music festivals use facial recognition tech? Cory Doctorow

books Take a trip with the Family Acid David Pescovitz

san francisco "American Indian headdresses" banned from major San Francisco festival Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants The magic theatre of High Weirdness Ferdinando Buscema

happy mutants To do in LA this weekend: laugh your head off at PUBLIC DOMAIN THE MUSICAL at the Hollywood Fringe Cory Doctorow

racism Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst Catherynne Valente

art Delightful animation all about the clitoris David Pescovitz