VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Boobie'
Induced by booze, blues, and drugs, I’ve often found my mind wandering into strange places. One peculiar recurring vision I have involves an insane fight scene where the laws of physics bend and I...
View ArticleHey Diddy, What's Your Music Channel Going to Be Like?
Photo via Diddy's Instagram Sean "Diddy" Combs, one of hip-hop's first multimedia moguls, and the man who taught me that Benjamin Franklin's face is on the $100 bill, announced today that his...
View ArticleLive Streaming the São Paulo Protests
As we have reported here and here and here, the bus-fare protests in Brazil have escalated into a revolt over many social issues. The government has lowered the fare back down to three Brazilian real,...
View ArticleThis Is a Band of Outsiders and VICE Announcement
Ever wanted to know what it's really like to be Devendra Banhart? Well, now you can, and for a whole 24 hours. This Sunday Band of Outsiders and the singer-songwriter team up to present the fashion...
View ArticleRick Rubin Breaks Down What He Cut From 'Yeezus'
Rick Rubin Breaks Down What He Cut From 'Yeezus'
View ArticleComics: The Collectors
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View ArticleThis Egyptian Lingerie Salesman Is Now an Illegal Weapons Dealer
Rising unemployment combined with rapid inflation has left many Egyptians jobless and desperate. High-profile violence and political instability have tanked Egypt’s tourism industry, a major player in...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Logan City Police Department (via Reddit) The incident: A 14-year-old boy refused to take off a pro-NRA shirt he was wearing. The appropriate response: Nothing. The actual response: The...
View ArticleIf Republicans Want Young Voters, Maybe They Should Just Stop Being Bigots
No Rick Perry, YOU'RE the asshole. Photo via Flickr user Mark Taylor The Republicans want me to vote for them. The GOP hasn’t talked to me yet personally, but a couple weeks ago they released a long...
View ArticleDiscovering Native Culture in a Sweat Lodge
I have a funny relationship with my own culture in that I feel like a tourist in it. I was raised in complete seclusion from my Aboriginal background. There was no parental influence that rooted me in...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What Would You Get Tear Gassed for?
Tear gas seems to be pretty in vogue at the moment. Protesters in Turkey, Brazil, and even Switzerland have been subjected to some of that noxious tear-jerker in the past couple of weeks, leaving the...
View ArticleHow to Become an International Soccer Coach
Matthew Conrad (far right) and Paul Watson (far left) with their Pohnpei national team before flying to play in Guam. (All photos courtesy of Matthew Conrad.) Matthew Conrad was a man with a dream: he...
View ArticlePen Pals: The Guys Who Really Should Be Locked Up
Photo via Since I’ve been out of prison, I’ve been going to these hellish rehab groups deep in Brooklyn to satisfy the courts. Ninety-five percent of my fellow clients live in halfway houses or...
View ArticleGround Zero: Syria - The Pillaging of the Umayyad Mosque
On October 13, 2012, Aleppo's Umayyad Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the oldest mosques in the world, suffered extensive fire damage amid fierce fighting between President Bashar...
View ArticleDirty Weed Is Poisoning the Emerald Triangle
Dirty Weed Is Poisoning the Emerald Triangle
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Paula Deen Is Exhausted from Being So Racist All the Time
Photo via Flickr User Bob B. Brown Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. With the assistance of my friends at the @YesYoureRacist Twitter account, I’ll be ranking this and other news...
View ArticleFemale Arm Wrestling Is the Future of Feminism
Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete My whole life, I’ve been told I should be scared. As a broad, and a “petite” one at that (five-foot-two, rather frail, lungs weakened by cigarettes, and with...
View ArticleMeet Holly, That Awesome Wu-Tang Clan ASL Interpreter from Bonnaroo
Meet Holly, That Awesome Wu-Tang Clan ASL Interpreter from Bonnaroo
View ArticleInto the Weird - My New Disorder Means I'll Never Have to Go to a Rave Again
In my 25 Earthling years of existence I have learned a lot, yet very few certainties other than this: things can always get weirder. My law-school educated parents moved me from St. Louis to a...
View ArticleSurveillance Culture Is Not a Two-Way Street
The 1863 Draft Riot in New York City. Earlier this month IT specialist Edward Snowden, a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor working for the National Security Agency, released classified documents outing...
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