Jessi Phillips

How to Run for Office with No Money and Little Experience - VICE

If the presidential election left you wanting to be more politically engaged, you're not alone.

The Great Analog Gamble

On a chilly November evening, a few hundred people mill around a warehouse in a quiet corner of Oakland. The crowd spills into the empty street, where musicians, engineers, and music fans in hoodies and flannel huddle together, sipping from tall boys in paper bags.

What Happened When We Tried to Get Over-the-Counter Birth Control in California | Broadly

The 2013 law allowing women to access birth control without a prescription in the state went into effect this month. But when we called over a dozen pharmacies in Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Bay Area, none of them would give it to us.

The City of Dentists

A trip to Los Algodones, the town just south of the border where it seems almost everybody is either a dentist or works for one. By Jessi Phillips In the southeastern corner of California, on the lands of the Quechan tribe, there is a parking lot the size of two football fields, where, for six dollars, Americans can leave their car all day to spend the day in Los Algodones, Mexico - the city of dentists.

The Activists Behind the Crudest, Loudest Art of the Trump Era

Photo via INDECLINE The activist collective known as INDECLINE was founded in 2001 by a handful of artists barely out of high school with a penchant for defacing corporate billboards. Since then, it's expanded to 25 core members and more than 100 auxiliary filmmakers, photographers, and visual artists, and its actions have likewise grown in risk and notoriety.

Letter From Phantom Ranch: Meet the Man Who Lives at the Bottom of the Grand Canyon

More than six million people visited the Grand Canyon last year, but less than 1 percent of them descended the roughly 5,000 feet to Phantom Ranch, a lodge and ranger station on the canyon floor at the confluence of the Colorado River and Bright Angel Creek.

The Search For a More Accessible World

There is no shortage of recent articles and books urging humans to wake up to the imminent danger of climate change. But few experts have offered such an exuberant and optimistic plan for dealing with it as biologist Edward O. Wilson.

Leading Bigfoot Researcher Explains Why a Woman is More Likely to Find Sasquatch | Broadly

Melissa Hovey-Larsen, president of the American Bigfoot Society and one of the few female cryptozoologist researchers, on dealing with Internet trolls and maintaining a healthy dose of skepticism in all aspects of life.

Impact Theatre's The Gun Show Questions America's Gun Obsession

click to enlarge Americans love guns. Or, rather, half of Americans love guns, while the other half, characterized inas "granola-eating, Whole Foods-shopping, Rachel Maddow-listening, liberal pinko lefties", wants to ban them all forever. Like many issues of national discourse, the only audible voices are staunchly for guns or against them, with the middle ground left to shrug its shoulders in silence.

"Third Eye Vision": Hip Hop's Phesto Dee's Solo Photography Exhibition | The Exhibitionist | San...

click to enlarge Self-portrait by Phesto Dee As one quarter of the hip-hop group Souls of Mischief,Phesto Dee found musical prominence at a young age, as the group released its classic record, '93 Til Infinity, when he was just one year out of high school.

Punch Drunk Lust: Red Light Lit's Intoxication Issue Out Friday

click to enlarge WhenRed Light Lit founders Veronica Christina and Jennifer Lewis chose the theme for their latest issue, "Everyone I Love is Drunk," they had in mind a broad definition of intoxication - drunk on life, drunk on love, drunk on happiness.

When Out On the Trail, Leave Your Dog Behind

No matter how sweet, our furry friends pose a significant threat to wildlife There's a reason many nature lovers own dogs. As an often-solo female hiker, I enjoy the added security, the pleasure of being alone without being totally alone, and the joy of watching my dog bound down the trail or jump into a mountain lake with an abandon I cannot usually muster.

Interview: Trees for the Future of Haiti

January's earthquake in Haiti forced many Port-au-Prince residents to relocate to surrounding rural areas, most of which lack the ability to sustain them. According to Ethan Budiansky of Trees for the Future, a nonprofit which plants trees for the benefit of communities worldwide, the Moringa, or Miracle Tree, might be part of the long-term solution for these devastated communities.

Escape: Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch - March/April 2010 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club