Are races that include tire tunnels, greased monkey bars, and blood pits the future of fitness?
By Ben Keene
The water in the dumpster in front of you looks frigid-numbingly cold, even. You’re already shivering. You’re probably already wet. You’re definitely muddy. In spite of whatever training regimen you’ve diligently followed over the past few weeks and months, you still aren’t really ready for this obstacle. Or the next one, for that matter. Because in reality, it’s impossible to be fully prepared for an obstacle-course race like a Tough Mudder until you’ve actually finished one. And with names like that, you can’t ...
Rebel Yell
Erotic model/entrepreneur Ariel Rebel is doing all she can to make her presence known on the web, including providing us with sexy photos of herself wearing—and, even better, not wearing—Penthouse panties.
By Jennifer Peters
There are some who say the internet was invented for one reason and one reason only: to propagate pornography. We’re not sure if that’s really why it exists, but it’s certainly our favorite thing about it.
At 26 years old, Canadian model Ariel Rebel has already built an online empire, running not only her own web sites—her paid site, her free blog, and a web comic—but a network of ...
Internal Affair
In her new book, Guts, Kristen Johnston maps her journey from Emmy-winning fame on 3rd Rock from the Sun to a hair-raising brush with death in the throes of addiction - and back.
By John Bolster
Photographs by David Khinda
As Kristen Johnston writes in the introduction to her sardonic, literally gut-wrenching memoir, “An actress addicted to booze and pills who then writes a book about it is relatively unheard of—and when I say ‘unheard of,’ I mean, ‘disturbingly commonplace.’ ” But Johnston’s book stands out for its unvarnished presentation and high, frequently bitter irony. While recounting the hazardous central episode of ...
Happy Hours
There’s nothing wrong with knocking back a few beers on your friend’s couch, but there are certain rites of drunken passage that every guy should experience. That’s why we think it’s perfectly legit to establish a bucket list solely devoted to alcoholic accomplishments. Here are 50 ideas to get you started. Cheers!
By Kara Wahlgren
Illustrations by Andrew Wislocki
STRANGE BREWS
Drink them just to say you did.
Absinthe. The “green fairy” has a taboo quality because of its reputation as a hallucinogen. Its rep is undeserved, but it’s worth drinking this herbal spirit for its cloudy, science-experiment appearance alone.
Moonshine. Or bathtub gin. Or, at ...
Danger Signs
Call them what you will—chumps, losers, suckers—but these guys all turned down guaranteed hot, nasty nookie.
By Ronnie Koenig
Illustrations by Mark Poutenis
The guys you’re about to meet had what they consider good reasons for not seizing the opportunity when invited to have sex with a ready-and-willing babe. And we’re not talking about saying no to so-so sex here. This isn’t about Doug, 33, who fled naked from a woman’s bed after sobering up and realizing the hottie he’d met in the bar was more like “Meat Loaf, with bigger tits.” And it’s not about Noah, 40, who, after getting a whiff ...
Pinch Hitters
Meet Steven Steals and his crew. Last year, they made six figures apiece boosting gear from electronics stores from coast to coast.
By Matt Caputo • Illustrations by Jon Proctor
It’s just after lunch on a typical busy workday in an outer borough of New York City. The traffic is still a few hours from hysteria. Supermarkets are receiving their weekly shipments, postal workers are delivering the mail, and a robbery is in progress at one of the largest electronics retailers in the country.
The key element—and the genius—of this robbery is that it won’t stand out from the hustle and bustle of ...
No matter what their malady—major or minor—Victorian-era women frequently received a medical diagnosis of “hysterical” (usually followed by a curt wave out the door).
If the nonstop firefights of Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 have left you with post-traumatic stress disorder, consider this latest Tom Clancy–stamped shooter a sort of smart-weapon therapy.
Sure, Toby Keith has had a string of No. 1 hits, but what we—and he—want to talk about this Memorial Day is his work with U.S. troops and returning vets.
