If you want to class up your act with one swift sartorial blow, enter our Le Noeud Papillon & Lost In a Supermarket Silk Bow Tie GIVEAWAY today and win a beautiful Italian silk tie (or 2 silk pocket squares as runner-ups). All you gotta do is write on our Facebook GIVEAWAY post telling us why […]

A couple weeks ago we showed you Le Noeud Papillon’s Jacquard Woven Silk Bow Ties for the discriminating gentleman, and readers loved what they saw. Which makes me happy to know that LIAS readers care about quality craftsmanship, and people who push outside the standards of their fields to create something that is legitimately valuable, […]

For anyone living under a rock for the last 30 years, Henry Rollins was of course the former frontman for punk legends Black Flag, later going on to helm his own Lollapalooza era Rollins Band, as well as other solo efforts. Henry has also made several guest appearances on other artists’ (TOOL, Tommy Iommi, Les […]

Dogtooth is like a backhand slap to the face after a night of heavy drinking: it sobers you up instantly. Greek Writer and Director Giorgos Lanthimos isn’t new to the festival circuit but certainly to the Academy Awards. The reason Dogtooth was nominated for best foreign film this year is due to the fact there […]

Believe it or not, Madman Mundt was sent to Nicaragua on assignment all this week on a mission so secret it cannot be discussed (yet). So please bare with us if the postings are a bit slimmer than usual, we’ll try our best to stay current on all the awesomeness and stupidity that the modern […]

LIAS was just invited to Sicily to for a week of adventure, and damn did it surpass the bill of expectations. Sure it’s got all you’ve heard: copious crime (including being victimized by filthy pickpockets), culinary delicacies from sea to land to pasta to pastry, mafiosos running the government (mafiosos running everything, actually), thriving urban […]

As the world prepares for the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King, BBC reporter and professor Geoff Ward visits Wallaces birthplace in rural Illnois and interviews a coterie of his closest friends (agent Bonnie Nadell), family (sister Amy Wallace), contemporaries (Rick Moody and former roommate Mark Costello) and professional colleagues […]

The great literary magazine McSweeney’s returns with one of their most imaginatively plackaged issues, Number 36. Utilizing a very innovative presentation, which borrows more than a bit from Visionaire‘s philosophy of outside-the-box packaging (no pun intended), the “issue” is actually a 275-cubic-inch crate filled with goodies. The giant head box is filled with a litany […]