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BEST STORY BY A CONTRIBUTOR THAT WE DIDN'T PRINT
The Afghanistan Election On The Ground
words & photos Jeff Antebi
For Afghans, just going to the polls was a daunting prospect, given the vicious and prevalent threats by the Taliban. Some who voted -- despite threats of violence -- had their fingers cut off. In the tense days leading up to the election, I spent most of my time exploring neighborhoods in Kabul. Each day, fewer and fewer people were going outside their homes, until the city had become a ghost town. More...
BEST ATHLETE
Doing The Impossible
words C. Benz
More often then not in 2009, fans of the sporting world found themselves unable to believe their eyes. Not only were new standards established, these athletes also generated unprecedented attention by way of their amazing performances. More...
PERSON WHO MOST NEEDS TO JUST STOP
ESPN Shuffle
Cooning: (African American Vernacular) For an African American, to play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly one primarily made up of Caucasians.
Stuart Scott: Booyaa!
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BEST DESPOT
Interview With Despot...the rapper
2009 was an unusual year for the world’s dictators and that fact is probably reflected in the COOL’EH Best Despot poll results. Gone are longtime favorites like Muammar Gaddafi, Hugo Chavez, George Bush, Kim Jong Il and Robert Mugabe. In fact, the only person who made our top five for the second time was a rapper named Despot. So we asked him what he thought of all the newcomers to this most heralded of winner circles. More...
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Interview With Luke Meyer & Andrew Neel
New World Order is the second stellar documentary that I have seen by producer/director team Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel. The first was Darkon, an immersion into the world of LARP (live-action roleplaying), specifically through the Darkon Wargaming Club in suburban Maryland. New World Order brings the same no-frills approach and similarly succeeds in allowing the subjects to tell their own story, except this time the subject is the supposed "New World Order.". More...
GUILTIEST PLEASURE
Interview With Jody Storch of Peter Luger
It makes sense that so many responses for Guiltiest Pleasure ended up centering around le cochon. What could be guiltier than the sweet, salty, succulence of the animal disdained by some of the world's biggest religions and all of its cardiologists? What could be more transgressive than the rich fattiness of a chunk of perfectly grilled pork belly marooned in a pond of buttery polenta? What could be more wrong than taking one of the most intelligent animals that human beings have ever domesticated and roasting it whole in an underground pit? More...
BEST RAP ALBUM
Hip-hop in 2009 was all about redemption. With the exception of P.O.S. at #5, all of our best album picks were artists who, over the last few years, had been written off in one way or another. More…
BEST STRAIN
Last year, I wrote the Best Strain piece, and the landslide winner once the balloting was finished was the OG Kush. COOL’EH proclaimed 2008, “The Year Of The Kush” and I waxed poetic about the Cali import that had one-upped NYC strains like Sour Diesel and Haze on their home turf. More…
BEST TV SHOW
words B. Blackmon & K.W.
In 2009, 30 Rock continued it's run as one of the few watchable sitcoms on Network TV. It's not just that Tina Fey is the new hero to nerdy girls everywhere, she is also flat-out hilarious. More...
WORST FASHION
words N. Moyen
What atrocity did we as a race commit that the gods of fashion would unleash not one, but two mutations of the same menace, the skinny jean? A primer for the uninitiated... More...
BEST MOVIE
LIFE IMITATES ART
words: C. BENZ
Anyone who has actively cheered for the New York Giants knows exactly how Paul Aufiero, Patton Oswalt’s character in the critically acclaimed Big Fan, feels. After watching this year’s spectacular late-season meltdown, I also felt as if I had been physically assaulted by my favorite athlete. More…
MOST POINTLESS ARMED CONFLICT
words: Rollie Fings
When Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, this November 5, killing 13 and wounding 28 before taking several bullets himself, the “War on Terror” hit what was arguably its lowest point. More...
BIGGEST LOSER
Everyone hates you Joe Lieberman.
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BEST WHATEVER-GENRE-YOU-WANT ALBUM
3. On December 8, 2009, I along with agents from the DEA Tampa District Office and officers from the Sarasota Police Department received information form a Confidential Source (CS) that "Buju Banton" a/k/a Mark MYRIE and associates wanted to purchase kilogram amounts of cocaine in the Sarasota area of the Middle District of Florida. More…
photos by: JEFF ANTEBI
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