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This week, Diplo helps Usher turn back the years; Adele bathes in a tubful of Grammys; Abraham Lincoln stops hunting social injustice and starts hunting vampires; Machete returns for another visceral blood bath; The Walking Dead finally returns from hiatus; and Tom Noddy shows us that blowing bubbles isn’t just a kids’ pastime.
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YO-LANDI VI$$ER’S GLOSSY black eyes scan the crowd, her platinum blonde mullet whipping maniacally across the stage. “Fok julle naaiers!” she screams into the microphone. Roughly translated from Afrikaans, her native tongue, it means, “Fuck you, fuckers!”
Next to her stands a menacing man known only as Ninja, the sweat on his tanned, arbitrarily-tattooed body glistening beneath the lights. To the rear of the stage, a cartoony, grotesque mask obscures the face of DJ Hi-Tek as he bounces to the dark, pulsating beat.
By now, I should probably feel frightened and disturbed by the chaos playing out before me—and, truth be told, I sort of am. But more than anything, I am captivated, enthralled, overwhelmed by the theatrical, mind-bending insanity of Die Antwoord.
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FELLAS, WE’VE GOT some bad news: Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. And you’ve forgotten to make plans. Again. That sound you hear is your girlfriend’s forthcoming explosion of rage barreling backwards through the space-time continuum to smack you upside the head.
But don’t start hyperventilating just yet; Handlebar‘s here to help. We’ve rounded up few of our most trusted female friends from across the country — Charlotte Wilder of The Wilder Things out in Boston; Styluste‘s Rebecca Lay and Renee Ogaki in NYC; Pop ‘Stache editor Becca James in Chicago; and designer Yun-Yi Goh of The Grunion Run in L.A. — to recommend the ideal restaurants for a romantic night out that’ll make your better half swoon.
As if that weren’t enough, we’re also going to help ensure you clean up nicely for your Valentine. Our style team has put together a selection of dapper looks designed to match up perfectly with the ambiance of each eatery. Toss in a bouquet of flowers, and you’re certain to carom straight out of the doghouse and into her boudoir.
Don’t forget to thank us later.
This week, Linsanity gets the hip hop tribute treatment; Deftones bassist Chi Cheng shows promising signs of recovery; the next Bourne movie is slightly misleading; a beloved board game somehow becomes Independence Day 2; Awake looks to give NBC a much-needed jolt; and a classic Superman storyline is rightfully ridiculed.
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Nova Scotia is damn cold during winter. In fact, Nova Scotia is just damn cold, period. It makes sense, then, that a company like Pip Robins—known for its toasty handmade cowls and scarves—would hail from the frigid Canadian province.
Aptly enough, it was on a chilly, blustery day that founder Gillian Hyde was struck with the inspiration for her signature cowls. “About 3 years ago I was walking down the street in January, and I saw a guy who was wearing a bandana across his face,” Hyde says. “I knew that he was trying to stay warm, but was avoiding wearing a scarf. For some reason I really liked the look of the bandana across his face, kind of like a bank robber or a protester.”
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