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Hiding Your Calls and Texts from Big Brother
The recent news reports that the US government can pull whatever data it wants from the internet and has free rein to peek at your phone records might have been shocking initially, but really they...
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There's a Video Game Church (and It's Totally Lame)
Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete The E3 video game expo is a yearly celebration of the multi-billion dollar gaming industry. It’s also super fucking boring. As the largest video game trade expo in the...
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Our TV Show Is Coming Back for Round 2
Good afternoon, ladies and germs. We'd just like to borrow your attentions for a moment to let you know our TV show, VICE, has been renewed for a second season on HBO. It took a lot of work, some of...
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VICE Loves Magnum: There's More to Stuart Franklin Than the Most Famous Photo...
Beijing, China. Tiananmen Square. "The Tank Man" stopping the column of T59 tanks. June 4, 1989. Magnum is probably the most famous photo agency in the world. Even if you haven't heard of it, chances...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to roll our eyes at some people who are scared of the world: Cry-Baby #1: Holy Trinity School Photo via The incident: A school found out that one of their employees was in an...
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Meet the Nieratkos: A Quicky with Farrah Abraham and Chris Nieratko
I am no longer a hoarder. As a child I amassed thousands of comic books. In my teenage years it was Star Wars toys. In my 20s I began seeking out and buying up old, classic skateboards. Then I turned...
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VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'The Rambler'
When I heard the title The Rambler, Calvin Reeder’s 2008 short film, my mind shot to the familiars: Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Davy Crockett. I thought of someone who braved new frontiers and...
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Jailbait
Artwork by Marilyn Minter S he met Jack at a party her stepmom was throwing for her dad. She was sitting alone in the corner, bored, when Jack sat next to her. He was wearing a suit without a tie and...
View ArticleWatch the Season Finale of ‘VICE’ Tonight
It’s likely that the first you heard of our TV show, VICE on HBO, was when news outlets around the world reported that we took Bad-as-I-Wanna-Be NBA Hall-of-Famer Dennis Rodman to North Korea, along...
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Please Kill Me: Happy, Happy, Happy! - A Memory of Arturo Vega
Joey Ramone, Arturo Vega, and me in the studio in 1978. Photo by Tom Hearn “Really Arturo, ABBA?” I shake my head in disbelief as I enter his loft, where the Swedish rock band is blaring from the...
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A Brief History of the US Government Spying on Its Citizens
Nothing is ever new. The NSA’s monitoring of the internet and the phone records of millions of Americans surprised some people, and made the public as a whole fairly pissed off, but it’s not the first...
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This Man Was Thrown in a Somali Jail for Interviewing a Rape Victim
Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim. Photo courtesy of Abdiaziz Everyone’s talking about Somalia’s future. They’re talking up foreign business investment, they’re talking up the new government, and they’re...
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I Spent the Evening at Chuck E. Cheese's, the Most Magical Place on Earth
Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete I don’t deserve nice things. I don’t feel comfortable in nice places. The only time I feel safe is when I’m surrounded by desperation and mediocrity, which is why I...
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This Week in Racism: A Mexican American Child Sings the National Anthem,...
Photo by Nate Miller A few days ago, I considered taking a week off from this column. I mean, there has to be at least one week where nothing blatantly, horribly racist happens, right? You’d think...
View ArticleOh, the Memories - Photos from Our Trip to North Korea
If you were alive back in March, chances are you heard about our little adventure to North Korea with Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters. The news spread around the world like an exceptionally...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Tim Freccia Discusses Life in Conflict Zones
The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly unedited discussion in which we go inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we come across. This week, host Reihan Salam talks...
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Syrian Rebels Are Getting Serious Help from a House in Suburban Ontario
A Free Syrian Army unit receiving medical supplies coordinated by the Syrian Support Group. Via Facebook. Louay Sakka is a co-founder of the Syrian Support Group, which was set up to help promote...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Pizza Party at the Good Company
For this week's Mahal, I headed over to the Good Company in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for a pizza party in celebration of Henry Gunderson's artwork. The Good Company opened six months ago. It...
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Alex and Allyson Grey's Visionary Art Temple, Entheon, Will Be Built
Alex Grey just hit the crowd-sourced lottery. The king of visionary art will be building the “sanctuary” for his trippy, visual-laced spiritual paintings and structures that he calls the Entheon. His...
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