A Weird Hotel Room in Houston Is Freaking Reddit Out
Last week, Reddit's internet detectives swarmed on a subreddit for Houston, Texas, after a user named Joelikesmusic posted a mysterious thread asking insiders what the deal was with a bizarre room at...
View ArticleLiving Inside 'The Canyons'
For an unreleased, unseen film with a tiny budget,The Canyons has attracted an enormous amount of publicity. It’s reportedly a sex-filled noirish melodrama set in LA, but that’s about all we know,...
View ArticleVICE Exclusive: Behind the Scenes of SSION's "High" Video
We love SSION, and we write about them often, so naturally we jumped at the chance to share this special exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the weird and intimate making of their "High" video. The...
View ArticleOff the Red Carpet
I live in LA, so I figured I should probably watch the Oscar's red-carpet situation in person. I strolled over to Hollywood Boulevard all easy breezy and proud of myself for having made it out of the...
View ArticleGetting Fresh with Wilbert: The Evolution of Patrik Ervell
All photos by Miyako Bellizzi Patrik Ervell wasn’t supposed to be a fashion designer. The American-born son of Swedish immigrants, who studied poli-sci at Berkeley, had plans of being a diplomat and...
View ArticleThe Disorienting Novels of Kobo Abe
I wanted to read all of the novels by one person in a short time, kind of like a rapid upload of someone’s whole career into my brain. I’d never read a whole book by Kobo Abe, frequently referred to...
View ArticlePopping the Marks: Remembering Master Fard Muhammad
February 26 is Saviors’ Day, the birthday of the founder of the Nation of Islam. Master Fard Muhammad will probably never get his due for his contribution, for a few reasons: 1) after more than eight...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: "Hollowed" by Bestial Mouths
Is Bestial Mouths the 100 percent best band name ever? Probably. Please enjoy this premiere of "Hollowed" off of their split 12'' with Deathday that's coming out March 25 on Desire Records. It makes...
View ArticleVICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'A Chjàna'
Since the most offensive things trolling the internet right now are the Quvenzhane Wallis Onion tweet and Seth MacFarlane’s entire persona, I wanted to introduce something that has a bit more...
View ArticleThe Ten Best (and Worst) Goat Music Video Mashups
YouTube trends are hard to understand. Currently, the whole web is losing its shit at goats. And not just because of their people-screams (the video of which will haunt us forever), but because more...
View ArticleInside the Abandoned Radioactive Towns of Japan
You might remember that way back in March 2011, a major tsunami struck the northeast shores of Japan, devastating the country and causing the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant's cooling systems to...
View ArticleCombover: Laugh Pig Laugh
Photos by Janicza Bravo, featuring Natasha Leggero and Nick Thune. Back at the office. I get a call on my phone. These days, I have to answer it myself. I had to fire my secretary after she fell in...
View ArticleMoscow Is a Paradise
It's easy to think of Moscow as a city of mausoleums, giant Lenin statues, and propaganda art museums, but photographer Igor Baranchuk insists his hometown is about so much more than post-communist...
View ArticleIn China, Tigers Are Being Farmed Like Chickens
Captive-bred tigers in a Chinese pen, via the EIA report (PDF). Tigers are some of the biggest victims of the wildlife trade, with the rare cats' bones coveted for traditional medicine and their coats...
View ArticleMMA Fighter Ronda Rousey Gets It from Her Momma
The story of Ronda Rousey isn't really about her beauty. If anything, her image is a smokescreen that slightly mollifies a fact that some fans of MMA are visibly shaken by: Women are extremely suited...
View ArticleThe Burned and Bloodied Sex Workers of South Mumbai
An estimated 100,000 sex workers currently earn a living working in the brothels of South Mumbai’s red-light districts. Most of them are not there voluntarily, but rather, have been sold into sex...
View ArticleChunklet to Go Go : Vinyl and Ebay: A Fascinating Relationship (Volume Two)
At some point last year, an acquaintance made me aware of RecordFlipper, a blog that aims to serve as an investment tip-sheet re: the release and future-release of hyper-limited vinyl titles. Before...
View ArticleThe Journalist Who Was Arrested for Investigating a Pedophile Orphanage
The Haut de la Garenne children's home on the island of Jersey. Jersey is an island of around 100,000 people nestled into a cozy nook between Guernsey and the coast of Normandy. It's mostly been...
View ArticleI Went to a Futuristic Hippie Commune in the Desert
An hour or so outside of Phoenix, Arizona, lies the town of Arcosanti. According to the sign on the way in, Arcosanti is an "urban laboratory," which sounds like a church-run program to trick...
View ArticleAtlas Hoods: Abandoned Estonian Prisons Are a Little Slice of Hell
Disclaimer: Some of you might remember this article from a few years back when we still lived at Viceland. Unfortunately, when we moved to VICE.com it disappeared, so now we've dug it up. Enjoy. Back...
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