McCaughan and Laura Balance founded Merge to distribute vinyl singles and cassettes of their favorite bands. Two decades later, that business model has brought them to a level of stability and success few independent labels can claim. In this interview, McCaughan talks about the choice to “stay...

Here’s the first in a series of videos where race driver Tanner Foust drifts on iconic roads. He makes it look too easy, but if you’ve ever tried to drift, you know it’s not. (Shit, I can hardly drift on the XBOX 360.) L.A.s Mulholland Drive was closed down to film this, so the only...

For the nostalgics out there, The Heads of State—a design studio whose work you’ll find on an R.E.M. poster and in The New York Times—has just released a limited-edition series of travel posters ($30 each at theheadsofstate.com). Reminiscent of 1960’s graphic prints (and just...

In case you haven’t been following GQ editor Ted Stafford’s tweets over at Twitter.com/GQFashion, Baselworld— the annual international convention previewing all things watches—is in full swing. And while Basel will certainly churn out a crop of showstoppers that’ll be hitting...

[Ed: This kid is obsessed with golf. Here, the many times throughout the season he's brought up his favorite, well, second-favorite game...] October 27 That summer after the Draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do everyday was wake up and go work out for four or...

Tuesday night, journalists, geeks, and journalists who are geeks came together at the Museum of Modern Art to watch some unaired episodes of the SyFy show Caprica, which is methadone for people who need more Battlestar Galactica. As if you don’t already know in obsessive detail, Caprica tells...

Proving that there is such a thing as a design joke, Austrian firm Grafisches Büro created these images pairing dog breeds to physically similar typefaces. Maybe we’ve been on something of a type kick lately, but that bull terrier? Totally Bodoni.

Yes. Yes. The scans are shitty. They are hard to read. And the jokes seem… well, odd, by today’s standards. But trust us when we say there would be few things that we here love without Army Man, George Meyer’s long-lost, totally brilliant, self-published zine from the late 1980s....

Europeans smoke the FUCK out of some cigarettes. In American airports you still occasionally see the hilariously titled “smoking lounges,” and if you’ve ever witnessed this disturbing phenomena you know there’s absolutely nothing “lounge-like” about these places....

And a word of warning—in theater snarky comments might get you shived.