How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B in Spanish?

Spotted in Valparaiso, Chile: chorrillana at local favorite greasy spoon J Cruz. This mess of fries, chunks of steak, onions and melting cheese is like Quebec poutine‘s fatter, sexier and sluttier cousin. Not for the prudish nor the faint of heart.

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Equality

Martin Luther King, Attacked in Chicago

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Books

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by Richard Price
News & Politics

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The pods that were so diligently planted are beginning to sprout.

by Richard Goldstein
The Culture

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From ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ in 1971 to Spike Lee’s ‘Malcom X’ in 1992.

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Music

The White Noise Supremacists

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by Lester Bangs
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The New Anti-Semitism: A Geshrei

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by Richard Goldstein

Food

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B in Spanish?

by Chantal Martineau

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