Why Bitcoins Are Just Like Gold
Many people still have a difficult time wrapping their heads around what Bitcoin is or why it even has value, especially as the virtual cryptocurrency continues to scale record heights. How isn't this...
View ArticleFor Over a Year, BP Has Worked Hard to Clean Up Its Wikipedia Pages
For Over a Year, BP Has Worked Hard to Clean Up Its Wikipedia Pages
View ArticleTalking Animal Testing
When you read the words animal testing, do you see a basement laboratory filled with cages and white lights and Josef Mengele up to his elbows in mutilated monkey faces looking for new drugs and foul...
View ArticleInterview with an Outlaw Bikie
Photos by Em J. Norman As the Australian government gears up to roll out national FBI-style anti-bikie laws, the bikie world is in a state of flux. The old guard is being phased out. The hard-riding,...
View ArticleVICE News: In Saddam's Shadow - Full Length
Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, VICE founder Suroosh Alvi returns to Baghdad to see how the city is doing. We meet a biker gang that misses Saddam, a gay activist, the metal band Dog Faced...
View ArticleHI Shredability: Typhoon Surfers
California-based pro surfer Alek Parker travels the world in search of monster waves caused by hurricanes. He recently visited Japan to catch the big waves that only happen once a year during typhoon...
View ArticleKomp-LaintDept.Why. I Hate. Graffiti
Style Wars (1983) Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant Have you noticed how lame graffiti in New York has become in 2013? Especially the one-liners you see more and more of, with their pseudo philosophy...
View ArticleRand Paul Is Wooing Conservatives on Immigration Reform
The Republican Party has reached a tipping point and appears to have started tepidly embracing immigration reform. The man who has played a big role in tipping the scale is Senator Rand Paul—the...
View ArticleVito Fun Finally Got Around to Sending Us His SXSW Photos
The VICE team just came back from a hellish two weeks at SXSW, which is basically where New Yorkers go to pretend they are more successful than they actually are and network with other New Yorkers...
View ArticleHere Is the Melvins Covering Queen's "You're My Best Friend"
Here Is the Melvins Covering Queen's "You're My Best Friend"
View ArticleHarmony Korine's Spring Breakers: Meet the ATL Twins - Part 3
In the third and final part of our interview with the ATL Twins, we learn about their daytime alter egos as legal assistants and what happened behind the scenes on the set of Spring Breakers. Turns...
View ArticleCombover: Teenage Vacation Week
Photos by Janicza Bravo. Featuring Anna Rose Hopkins and Mireya Lucio. Lately I’ve been thinking back on the first film I ever produced, Teenage Vacation Week. I was also in it. In those days I...
View ArticleDJ Wika Is Older and Cooler Than You
Photo by Ivona Tautkute Whoever coined the phrase “Die young and leave a good-looking corpse” had no fucking idea what they were talking about. Maybe your body is flabbier at 70 than it is at 20,...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Hey, it's that time of the week where we laugh at some butthurt cry-babies again! Cry-Baby #1: Bridgett Dixon (via) The incident: A woman didn't like the sound that trains make. The appropriate...
View ArticleMeet the Nieratkos: Fat, Sick, and Nearly Divorced
July 1 would have been my seven-year wedding anniversary, but it doesn’t look like my wife and I are going to make it that long. And it’s not because of the seven-year itch or anything like that—it’s...
View ArticleZanesville
Illustrations by Conor Nolan Nathaniel Rich is 32 years old, and he’s written and accomplished more than you will if you live to be 100. His novel The Mayor’s Tongue, published a few years after he...
View ArticlePen Pals: Don’t Stick Dominoes in Your Dick
Photo via Flickr user barryskeates I think when most regular citizens imagine a guy going to jail, they figure that the convict will have to do something stupid to prove his mettle to all the...
View ArticleLevi Mandel Photographs Sleepy Pigs and Other Fantastic Things
Levi Mandel was born in Seattle in 1985. Aside from having the best CV I've ever read, Levi's transparency is one that follows true in his body of work-—there's no time for the typical. His approach...
View ArticleRussian Orthodox Priests Want to Take Back Alaska and Save Its Non-Gays
Back in the day (by which I mean from 1733-1867), Alaska was a Russian colonial possession. In 1867, we bought it off the Russkies for two cents an acre. That may sound like a measly sum, but in those...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: The Incredible Light Art of the Kinetica Art Fair
A 5,000-pixel shimmering LED sphere, illuminated sculptures built from fluorescent fishing line, sound-reactive glowing fashion, and a projection-mapped "fallen star" sculpture are just a few examples...
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