fashion How jeans are distressed at the sweatshop Rob Beschizza

music Fantastic psychedelic Levi's commercials from the early 1970s David Pescovitz

fashion Imagine you work by paying $425 for artificially mud-stained jeans Rob Beschizza

fashion Skin tight, with bite: lion-mauled jeans Matt Maranian

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

trump Why tabloid reporters are like Donald Trump Peter Sheridan

Business Verizon says it will buy Blue Jeans Network, Zoom competitor, reportedly for under $500 million Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Medallion Status: comparison is the thief of joy, and John Hodgman is the thief-taker Cory Doctorow

mistakes Man pretending to be cop arrested by actual cop Rob Beschizza

politics Video surfaces of Canadian Prime Minister in blackface Rob Beschizza

if you can't open it you don't own it Inside NYC's slowly-vanishing repair shops Clive Thompson

Gadgets Save up to 60% on this collection of innovative drones Boing Boing's Shop

bullies Macy's pulls fat-shaming dinner plates after complaints Rusty Blazenhoff

Weird You can pay someone to take a walk with you in Los Angeles now Xeni Jardin

music Spanish pop-goth performance featuring Freddy Krueger in high-waisted jeans David Pescovitz

fake news The Queen dying, Brad Pitt’s bigamy, and official approval for hand jobs, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

gender Decluttering gender with Marie Kondo Rob Beschizza

los angeles Shirtless "hot Lincoln" statue from 1939 inspires jokes and fanfic Rusty Blazenhoff

picks When you find out you are a very good egg Xeni Jardin

racism A black guest of DoubleTree gets kicked out of the hotel for calling his mother in the lobby Carla Sinclair