S Love Affairs and Drug Busts: Watch the Jamaican Queens New Video, "Love Is...
We've been fans of Detroit-based three-piece Jamaican Queens since they first came by PAPER HQ to perform a set in our kitchen and, since then, the "self-proclaimed 'Detroit trap pop' group" has been...
View ArticleThese "Realistic Stock Photos" Of People Smoking Weed Are the Best
Photo by Darrin Harris Frisby/Drug Policy AllianceBesides offering a great excuse to cut out of work early and get high af, 4/20 is a good time to take stock of current debates happening around the...
View ArticleFive Of Our Favorite Celebs on Their First Time Getting Stoned
(Photo via Instagram)Earlier today, Demi Lovato posted a 4/20 appropriate throwback on Instagram featuring the "Disney High Class of '09." In that vein, we've dug up some more anecdotes from...
View ArticleWatch the Jurassic World Trailer, Feel Paranoid Contact-High
Because it's 4/20, and because it's become clear that Jeff Goldblum is happier as a knot store proprietor than a fast-talkin' quantum scientist, and because Chris Pratt seems to have stepped into the...
View ArticleDirector Brett Morgen on Betrayal, Grief and "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck"
There is no chronological neatness to the release of Brett Morgen's documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. It arrives 24 years after Nevermind, Nirvana's breakthrough album; 22 after In Utero, their...
View ArticleHere's the Trailer For the New Documentary On Martin Margiela
"By not showing his identity, I think that Martin Margiela became more exciting," fashion critic Suzy Menkes says in the trailer for The Artist Is Absent: A Short Film On Martin Margiela. "People...
View ArticleHear Kurt Cobain Cover the Beatles'"And I Love Her"
One of the most poignant discoveries Brett Morgan made as he excavated a storage facility full of Kurt Cobain's stuff -- stuff that would become the building blocks of his brutal and beautiful...
View ArticleWaka Flocka Flame Has Officially Declared His Candidacy For President
Watch your back, Hillary -- Waka Flocka Flame is joining the 2016 presidential race. Appropriately, the Atlanta rapper released his official campaign video on 4/20 and it looks like he's up for the...
View ArticleThe Strange Allure of Empty Film Posters
What do you get when you remove all of the recognizable branding and stars from a movie poster? Delightful weirdness. The work of French artist Madani Bendjellal, by way of Its Nice That, these empty...
View ArticleInside the Hot Pink Barbie Bungalow of Artists, "Cyberfeminists" and...
Artist couple Signe Pierce and Alli Coates first caught our attention with their performance art film American Reflexxx, which has been screening at art shows throughout the country for the past year,...
View ArticleRihanna Shares New Music for 4/20
Photo via Instagram.You'll have to forgive Rihanna for being a day late posting this dreamy new track off her upcoming for 4/20 -- it's just that she was acting as as bridesmaid in her beloved...
View ArticleSee Miley, Beyoncé and Leo Transformed Into Figures From Art Masterpieces
Ryan Gosling in a portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I by an unknown artistTaking a page from Kehinde Wiley, the web has been obsessed lately with mashing up modern celebs and historical paintings....
View ArticleUpdate: The Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Museum Is Up and Running
Last month we wrote about a new museum coming to Williamsburg that's dedicated to the demented saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan and, after much fanfare, Brooklyn's newest cultural institution...
View ArticleAuthor Johann Hari Knows How to End the War On Drugs
Eighty percent of Americans agree that the war on drugs has failed. And Johann Hari has done something about it.Johann Hari has written an important and powerful book that reads like a thriller and...
View ArticleSee Photos from Our "Iris" Screening Last Night with Kate Spade New York and BAM
Last night Paper hosted a screening of the upcoming Albert Maysles documentary Iris with Kate Spade New York, BAMCinematek and the film's legendary style-icon subject herself, Iris Apfel. Wearing a...
View ArticleWatch Kanye Perform at the Time 100 Party, Stare Blankly at Amy Schumer
Our current cover star Kanye West performed last night at the TIME 100 party, surrounded on stage by partially-clothed black men covered in chalk and tattered clothing. West, who's also on TIME's...
View ArticleA Lana Del Rey Song Pops Up In the Age of Adaline Trailer
After contributing music to the soundtracks for Big Eyes and Maleficent, Lana Del Rey has once again lent her signature dream gloom to another film, The Age of Adaline. The movie stars Blake Lively in...
View ArticleJohn Waters' Greatest Paper Quotes
In honor of the one and only cinema legend and pope of trash John Waters' birthday today, we've rounded up all of our favorite Waters'Paper soundbites from over the years. A three-time Paper cover...
View ArticleA Hooters-Esque Dick-Centric Restaurant Is Coming to Dallas
Are you ready for the male version of Hooters? Apparently they are down in Texas. An "open call" for a new restaurant in Dallas called Tallywackers posted last week on Craigslist drew lots of...
View ArticleArtist Alejandro Duran Creates Stunning, Site-Specific Sculptures From Trash
Derrame (Spill), 2010While on vacation in Mexico in February, we decided to drive from Tulum down to Punta Allen at the end of Highway 109. After an hour we stopped for a swim, but, sadly, couldn't...
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