By: Dave Odegard
Just after 3 PM yesterday a tornado touched down just outside of Oklahoma City. An estimated two miles wide with wind speeds of almost 200 miles per hour, weather experts assigned it a ranking of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, the second most powerful type of tornado. The fact that the cyclone spent close to an hour on the ground added... Read More
By: Nicole Capo
If you live in the gritty cities of America, you may have slowly been noticing a shift in your neighborly demographic over the last couple of years.
Long gone are the Spike Lee days when low-income folks trod the streets of the city, and even more so mid-20th century “white flight,” when affluent white families flocked to Suburbia. Where... Read More
By: Chris O'Shea
Not that you need another reason to hate hipsters, but a new study basically says that they're to blame for rising beer prices. And we're not even talking about good beer. Because the hipster chooses everything with irony in mind, they drink bad beer. This means cheap basic beer — like Pabst Blue Ribbon and Coors Light — is in more demand.... Read More
By: Nicole Capo
People have been seriously angry ever since news broke that the infamous “Monsanto Act” was passed while we were all busy talking about gay marriage — angry enough to start a fresh new wave of boycotts against the controversial agriculture giant. And, in the year 2013, you can’t have a proper boycott without an app, right?
Enter Buycott,... Read More