Ground Zero: Mali - Under Sharia Law
When the jihadist group MUJAO took control of northern Mali's city of Gao from Tuareg rebels last September, many locals welcomed the return of law and order. But the security MUJAO offered came at a...
View ArticleHorsing Around at the Gypsy Mecca
Appleby Horse Fair has been dubbed the Gypsy Mecca because every year Romany and Irish Traveller families come from miles away to get to the little Cumbrian village to celebrate their culture, meet up...
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Ewe Had Me at All the BBQ You Can Eat
On Monday I attended the most unlikely BBQ event ever. There were no ponytails, nobody with a mop bucket of sauce glazing ribs on a smoker hauled in by an 18-wheeler, and it did not take place at a...
View ArticleMunchies: Bar Isabel
Grant van Gameren doesn't necessarily want to hear that Bar Isabel, his new restaurant in Toronto's Little Italy, is Spanish or Mediterranean, even though that's basically what it is. So what we can...
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Joe Johnson Is Very Big in China: A Love Story
“I just a simple person,with little income,24 years old young people..... I do not care about other's thinking,someone said I was a fool, they would like to say:”why does yonsan spent lots of time on...
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Meet Sohel Rana, the Most Hated Man in Bangladesh
AP Photo May Day in Bangladesh: "The serenity of Jurain graveyard seems more than other days on Wednesday as 32 workers whose bodies remained unclaimed made their final journey," is how the local...
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VICE Premiere: The Flaming Lips'"You Lust" Video (NSFW)
The Flaming Lips have been a lot of different things over the years. Their newest album, The Terror, shows the band moving even further from their Willy Wonka-on-mescaline incarnation. The Terror is...
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Meet the Nieratkos: Skateboarding's Most Violent Team Manager Has Mellowed Out
No matter how you try to spin skateboarding into an organized sport tailored for the Olympics, one fact remains: in most of America, skateboarding is an illegal activity and a crime. That’s what’s so...
View ArticleBattle of the Beasts: Camel Wrastlin’ in Turkey
Camel wrestling is a Turkish tradition that dates back almost 2,500 years. The animals are typically imported from nearby countries and brought to Turkey’s Aegean region, where most of the wrestling...
View ArticleI Signed Up for a Dating Site for Conspiracy Theorists
I Signed Up for a Dating Site for Conspiracy Theorists
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Sneaky Peeks From 'VICE' Episode Five
Have you guys been watching our new TV show? Without getting too grandiose about it, if you haven't seen it just imagine the most interesting stories you've ever heard—real Pulitzer magnets—combined...
View ArticleNeither Big nor Easy: 3D Na'Tee Brings Real Rap to New Orleans's Jazz Fest
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is actually quite controversial in some circles. Some decry its lack of actual jazz as false advertising, since its namesake genre cowers under the shadow of...
View ArticleHamilton's Pharmacopeia: Tanks for the Memories - Part 1
With comedian Joe Rogan as his guide, Hamilton Morris travels across the United States seeking new heights of sensory deprivation. In part one, he investigates what happens to the mind, body, and...
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The Long VICE Interview with FLAG
Photo by Dimitri Coats. For the first couple years of their existence, Black Flag couldn’t even get anyone to book them a show and the shows they did get were invariably shut down by Los Angeles...
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Combat Juggling Is the Sport of Kings
Combat Juggling is a real sport started by juggling prodigy Jason Garfield. Unlike the cartoon cat, this Garfield isn't a lazy boy at all. According to the World Juggling Federation, he entered the...
View ArticleHamilton's Pharmacopeia: Tanks for the Memories - Full Length
With comedian Joe Rogan as his guide, Hamilton Morris travels across the United States seeking new heights of sensory deprivation.
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Wikipedia Can't Escape Its Gender Problem
Image via There’s an old riddle: The cops raid a house looking for a murderer named Robert. They break in and find a firefighter, a mechanic, and a mailman all sitting around playing poker and...
View ArticleHamilton Is a Paradise
Hamilton, Ontario—the land of Canada's finest confederate flag waving BBQ restaurant—is a veritable paradise. We sent our pal Kelly Nguyen out to photograph its numerous wonders. She came back with...
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Is Chinese Big Oil Going to Destroy Ecuador's Amazon?
Photo by Stefan Kistler To oil and gas companies, the Amazon rainforest is one huge cash cow just begging to be milked. But anyone who'd rather not rid the world of 30 percent of its animal species...
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