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CODING FOR DUMMIES—THINK ONLY MIT GEEKS CAN LAND AN $85,000-A-YEAR JOB AT A SILICON VALLEY START-UP? MAYBE NOT. ACROSS THE COUNTRY, COMPUTER SCHOOLS ARE PEDDLING NINE-WEEK CRASH COURSES THAT PROMISE TO TURN AVERAGE JOES INTO WELL-EMPLOYED TECHIES. BUT IS IT ALL A SCAM? WILL BUTLER ENROLLS TO FIND OUT.

FADE TO BLACK-DAVID FINCHER, WHO HELMED FIGHT CLUB, THE SOCIAL NETWORK AND THIS FALL’S GONE GIRL, IS ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST REVERED FILMMAKERS. HE’S ALSO

GIRLS OF THE ACC-CLASS IS IN SESSION AS JARED RYDER KICKS OFF OUR ANNUAL COLLEGE I A ROAD TRIP TO THE EAST COAST, WHERE WE’VE SCOUTED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, BODACIOUS AND BRIGHT-EYED COEDS EVER TO MATRICULATE IN THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE. TRUST US, PLAYING HOOKY HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN.

THREE-WHEEL DRIVE-EVERY YEAR ADVENTURERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL TO THE DESERT CITY OF JAISALMER, INDIA. THE GOAL? SURVIVE A 2,000-MILE RACE IN A THREE-WHEEL WAGON CHURNING OUT A WHOPPING SEVEN HORSEPOWER. NO MAPS, NO ROUTES, NO PIT CREWS. SCOTT YORKO REPORTS FROM THE GREAT RICKSHAW RUN-A TREK AS ABSURD AND ENLIGHTENING AS IT IS DANGEROUS.

DOCTOR STRANGE-ROB CORDDRY IS A DICK. EXHIBIT A: ON ADULT SWIM’S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL, HE PLAYS A SURGEON CAKED IN CLOWN MAKEUP WHO MAKES AIDS JOKES IN FRONT OF KIDS. EXHIBIT B: HE’S OFTEN BUTT-NAKED (OLD SCHOOL, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, HELL BABY), AND HE EVEN HAS A TATTOO OF HIS WIFE’S NAME. WHAT GIVES? OUR FAVORITE FUNNY ASSHOLE EXPLAINS HIMSELF TO ERIC SPITZNAGEL IN 20Q.

PLUS-THE NATION’S TOP PARTY SCHOOLS, A DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO DOUCHEBAGGERY, THE DIVINE MISS OCTOBER AND MORE.

A BACKBREAKER, ACCORDING TO HIS ACTORS. IN A PLAYBOY INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN REBELLO, FINCHER EXPLAINS WHY HE DEMANDS 100 TAKES FROM BEN AFFLECK AND BRAD PITT AND REFLECTS ON HIS RISE FROM MUSIC-VIDEO MAKER (FOR MADONNA, OF ALL PEOPLE) TO OSCAR-NOMINATED DIRECTOR.

SOMETHING ANCIENT WELLING UP-MAX LIVES A LONELY EXISTENCE IN MORMON COUNTRY, RUNNING A RAMSHACKLE ROADSIDE ATTRACTION. HIS ONLY COMRADES ARE A CHOCOLATE LAB AND A CASE OF BEER-UNTIL A MYSTERIOUS BOX APPEARS OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE AND CHANGES HIS LIFE FOREVER. IT’S A WHIMSICAL TALE ABOUT SECOND CHANCES FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE’S NOLAN TURNER, OUR 2014 COLLEGE FICTION WINNER.

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