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A man takes part in the Russian beard and mustaches championship in central Moscow on April 4, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER UTKIN (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER UTKIN/AFP/Getty Images)

Terror Lurks in the Undergrowth: The Perils of Maintaining a Beard

Beards and facial stubble are now the omnipresent growths on the faces and chins of not just Brooklyn’s hipsters, but boardroom thirty somethings and even medical doctors
By David Waters
An installation view from THE(UN)FAIR in March 2014. (Courtesy THE(un)SCENE)

Get Ready for THE(un)SCENE, a Subversive Anti-Fair a Block Away From the Armory Show

When artist Mikel Glass became fed up with the market's dependence on art fairs about five years ago, he did as many meta-inclined mischief-making artists have done before him: he started exploring the mechanics of selling work at an art fair in his own work. In 2012, he created an installation at (Art) Amalgamated called FAIR that explored, well, fairs. And then he alluded to collectors buying art from booths somewhat more obliquely with an installation at the Governor's Island Art Fair, in 2011, in which a gerbil runs through an endlessly looping sequence of tubes.
By Ann Binlot

The New York Times Publishes Pulled Anthony Weiner Sexting Story After BuzzFeed Recreates It

The New York Times finally published a story called “For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers” by Michael Barbaro that was first posted
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Screenshot of The New York Times story.

<em>The New York Times</em> Inadvertently Posts a Weiner Sexting Story Online

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Arianna Huffington Elected to Committee to Protect Journalists–Just Not from Ghostwriting for Her Website [Updated]

By Emily Foxhall

Black Child Disenfranchised While Questioning President Obama About Disenfranchisement [Watch]

By Aaron Gell

Williamsburg Loves Vinyl-Siding – Or Is This Just Another Hipster Joke?

By Matt Chaban

Glenn Beck’s Readers May Have Difficulties With Irony

By Dan Duray
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