Vice Blog: I Signed Up for Dateskaters.com and Went on a Date
Why the fuck did I join a skateboard-centric online dating site rather than just going to a local skate park and hitting on a Dylan Rieder clone? Have you been to a skate park lately? It’s a great...
View ArticleVice Blog: Big Surprise – Wide Receivers Get Arrested a Lot
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant’s mom is 37 years old, the same age as me. Pretty sure we don’t have much else in common. His mom is black, I’m white; she’s a woman, I’m a dude; and when I was...
View ArticleVice Blog: I Talked to Manny Santiago About Skateboarding, Swords, Gangs, and...
Lowell, Massachusetts is a typical New England city lined with cobblestone streets, historical colonial buildings, and dozens of empty warehouses. It’s also been in steady decline for decades due to...
View ArticleVice Blog: Taji’s Mahal – Afro-punk vs. Backstreet Boys
It’s been a music-filled week over at Taji’s Mahal. Last weekend I saw Ninjasonik and the Flatbush Zombies perform at the Afro-punk Festival in Brooklyn. Then on Friday I saw the Backstreet Boys...
View ArticleVice Blog: Wasted Life - Free Puppy
Skinny Puppy’s reunion tour in 2004 was a big production. Founders Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key were properly outraged by the war in Iraq, and The Greater Wrong of the Right, the band’s first new album in...
View ArticleVice Blog: The Imposter Who Had Over 500 Fake Identities
Photo by Alexandre Guirkinger See that guy in the picture above? He doesn't look like a 17-year-old, blond, blue-eyed American boy, does he? But, that's exactly what he managed to convince a lot of...
View ArticleVice Blog: Nations of Asia, Surrender Your Girlfriends!
In case you have yet to notice, we have a bit of a predilection for following the habits of the young concert going, slightly nebbish white male that numerous internet studies have revealed to be in...
View ArticleAmphetamine Logic: The End, Part One
Hit me, I hiss at Sebastian when I see him at nightclubs still. I slept with him in his basement apartment on Saint Marks Place for years. He’d beat me in the jaw while we fucked because I told him...
View ArticleVice Blog: What Kids Say About Their Town
Because I live in New England, the kids I interviewed for this, our last What Kids Say About column, are all New Englanders. I was shocked by their lack of wanderlust. I ricocheted between my divorced...
View ArticleVice Blog: I Reported on the Mets and It Killed My Fandom
I used to be a Mets fan. Not a Mets fan the way Bob From Sales is a Mets fan, in that he is aware that David Wright exists and will occasionally drop by your cubicle with a sigh and a timelessly...
View ArticleVice Blog: Road Trip Chaos: What Does Boston Think of Mitt Romney?
A couple weekends back I somehow found myself in Boston, trolling around the city with Newsweek/The Daily Beast national security correspondent Eli Lake. We were there to interview...
View ArticleVice Blog: Summer Weather
In 1983, a local TV station held a contest for anyone who wanted a chance at reporting the weather. I was hired to take head shots of contestants after each screen test. Five winners were chosen out...
View ArticleVice Blog: We Fanute a Strip Club with French Montana
French Montana is a rapper from the Bronx by way of Morocco. He’s a ridiculously nice guy in person, with a tendency to mumble a lot. It would make you think he’s shy, or slow, except he’s neither,...
View ArticleVice Blog: Ice-T Caught Me in Coco’s Dressing Room at Her NYFW Show
The reason I was pumped to cover Coco’s first show for her label Licious at New York Fashion Week had nothing to do with the clothes. Honestly, I just wanted to see her ass in person. It’s kind of...
View ArticleVice Blog: Brandon Jacobs Called My Friend a "Lil Watermelon Head Ass"
San Francisco 49ers running back Brandon Jacobs is somewhat of a bipolar socialite when it comes to interacting with fans and other members of society. One minute he’s parading around a bounce house...
View ArticleVice Blog: KOMP- LAINT DEPT. "The Logical Extension of Business Is Murder"...
Paul Giamatti and Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis SPOILER ALERT: This article examines David Cronenberg's new film, Cosmopolis, in great detail. Many of the movie's plot points are discussed. If you...
View ArticleVice Blog: VICE Premieres: "Everytime You Make Me" by Brass Bed
We sure do love Brass Bed. Remember when we premiered their take on "He's Large" not too long ago? Well now we're rolling out the warm feelings all over again with this premiere of "Everytime You Make...
View ArticleVice Blog: Jaimie Warren Has an Opening in Miami Tonight
Guess what? Jaimie has an opening tonight at the Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design called The WHOAS of Female Tragedy. The exhibition is a series of hilarious, intricate self-portraits...
View ArticleVice Blog: Jaimie Warren Bepenised Her Photo from Our Photo Show
Jaimie Warren is easily one of the most original photographers alive today. We wish we could spend a long weekend tucked gently into the folds of her brain, vacationing among her cerebellum,...
View ArticleSlutever: Sex Is Fashion
In this special Fashion Week episode of VICE's Slutever, Karley asks herself, "If you don't dress well, no one is going to want to have sex with you, right?" In need of some expert advice, she visits...
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