Goths as a subculture are often associated with being counter-cultural, angsty, and punk rock. But what if someone is a goth and an extremely normal person? In this Please Don't Destroy sketch for ...

Nearly two decades ago, Orv Madden saw pale, pierced, teenage mall rats wearing ratty clothes, black makeup and plastic accessories and he was inspired. Madden opened Hot Topic Inc. in Westminster in ...

Though they express their sexuality in starkly different ways, evangelical Christian men and goth men share a startling amount of common ground in their “intimacy talk,” which in both cases tends to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Flannery O’Connor explained the grotesquery of her characters and plot twists by saying that the subject of her fiction was “the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.” She felt her ...