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As kids, when we were really into Greek mythology, we though that having hoofs instead of feet would be just about the coolest thing ever. The closest we could ever come to being real, live centaurs or minotaurs, basically. Now we’re all grown up, and we realize just how right our little selves were. Just [...]

Let’s pretend for a minute that Nike doesn’t manage to pay its spokespersons more than their sports salaries and spend hundreds of millions because it pays a developing world labor force slave wages, and just enjoy the sheer visual splendor (and, often, musical complexity and sly humor) of their commercials. For instance, before perusing Complex’s [...]

Admittedly, the subject of this list sounds rather arbitrary and pointlessly specific. Until you see said pictures of Jack Nicholson on vacation and realize that looking at the actor enjoy his time off is a little like getting away from it all for a few seconds at a time. That amazingly expressive face, and its [...]

In these days of over-merchandised movie franchises whose dwindling box office returns have to be supplemented by copious schwag sales, it’s no surprise that licensing deals are producing some truly atrocious tie-in items. Witness, for instance, the absurd filmic footwear featured in StreetLevel’s listicle 10 Sneakers Inspired by Movies (helpfully divided into 5 good and [...]

Today is No Socks Day, and you can bet we’re stinking up the office with our feet all out in the open. Rather than offer an ellicit listicle of nude feet, though, we’d like to highlight an especially naughty sock-related habit that is all the more offensive on this most sock-free of days: socks and [...]

As Miss Heels herself, Sarah Jessica Parker, has even admitted, high-heeled shoes pretty much destroy your body. Some, of course, do so more conspicuously than others. In an angered homage to the flashy footwear that flaunts its ankle-twisting, knee-destroying, toe pinching properties, here are Listicles’ 14 Insanely Dangerous High-Heeled Shoes.
Reverse Heels

Delightfully meta, also extremely precarious-looking.

The current fad for oversized sneakers in variously garish, neon and glittering colors has birthed some spectaculary ugly footwear. Depending on where you live, you may see your fare share of such pedestrian unpleasantness on a daily basis.
If you live in a culturally deprived place, though, and don’t know what we’re talking about, YepYep’s listicle [...]

There was a time when a phrase like the title of this listicle might have been an oxymoron. With the fusing of nerds and cool kids into a srange social super-species, though, the idea of really cool shoes inspired by really geeky themes is a reality. Witness Aleptu’s listicle of The 12 Coolest Geeky Shoes, [...]

With high-profile international shoe terrorism spiking over the weekend, in this installment of our weekly financial column Big Money Mondays we take a humbling look at the costs of this string of crimes that often go unreported (possibly because they are, more often than not, perpetrated by reporters).
Circa pre-recession times – but just in time [...]