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The Art of Punk with Bryan Ray Turcotte
Bryan with some of his flyer collection. Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete Bryan Ray Turcotte has been flailing around at punk shows since before you were shot into life's first mosh pit, that great...
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Tubesteak: Don't Celebrate the Gay Marriage Victory with a Wedding of Your Own
Photo via This morning the Supreme Court issued two rulings that made gay marriage a whole lot better in this country. My friends have been texting me since the news broke, wanting to meet up tonight...
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Question of the Day: When Is It OK to Kill?
Yesterday, Ian Brady explained his murder of five children in the mid-60s as an "existentialist experience." Which seems like a pretty big leap from reading Sartre's Nausea while staring out of...
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I Went Tornado Chasing with a Bunch of Storm Enthusiasts
All photos by Anthony Ho. Shattuck, Oklahoma. There was a moment a couple of days ago while being blasted in the face by a 50 mph concoction of dust, manure, and hail the size of ping pong balls that...
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An Open Letter to the Worst Wax Museum in America
Dear Hollywood Wax Museum, I recently visited your Los Angeles location and was exceptionally disappointed with what I saw. Upon entering, I was greeted by your Tom Hanks in Castaway waxwork. It was...
View ArticleMunchies: Mexicali Taco & Co.
For the second ever Munchies episode shot in LA we chose the gentlemen from Mexicali Taco & Co., Esdras Ochoa and Javier Fragrosso. We wanted to do an episode on Mexicali because we stopped there...
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Once Upon a Time, Brazil Protested with Psychedelic Rock ’n’ Roll
Os Mutantes and Gilberto Gil circa 1967. Photo courtesy of Iconographia archive On March 28, 1968, students in Rio de Janeiro began protesting against the high price of food in a student restaurant...
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I Got Raped, Then My Problems Started
One of my cartoons that, apparently, make me a less credible witness to my own rape. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, one out of six American women has been the victim of rape...
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States' Rights Cut Both Ways at the Supreme Court
"Scene at the Signing of the Constitution" by Howard Chandler Christy It’s been a heady few days at One First Street. Two major legislative enactments—the Defense of Marriage Act and a key provision...
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Miley Cyrus Needs to Take an African American Studies Class
Oh shit, I've done it now. I've fallen into the mental quicksand that is trying to analyze Miley Cyrus and what the fuck is happening in her latest video, "We Can't Stop." I would like to ignore it...
View ArticleWhy Do You See What You See When You're Tripping on Psychedelics?
It's been three hours since you ate two thick tabs of high-grade LSD, and the stuff is really kicking in. You sense this because everything and everyone around you looks weirder and progressively...
View ArticleHello, NSA - Generate Keywords the NSA Has Flagged
Hello, NSA - Generate Keywords the NSA Has Flagged
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We Are Not Men: Standing on Your Lawn Shouting His Own Name
Photo via My senior portrait in my high school yearbook is bad. Stupendously, horrifyingly bad. Orbit-stopping, telethon-necessitating, encyclopedia-entry bad. Bad in a way that should entitle me to...
View ArticleFightland: Anthony Bourdain and Others Throw on Gis
Anthony Bourdain and Others Throw on Gis
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VICE Loves Magnum: Chris Steele-Perkins Can't Let Go of England
ENGLAND. Bradford. A Teddy Boy combs his hair in the Market Tavern. 1976. Magnum is probably the most famous photo agency in the world. Even if you haven't heard of it, chances are you're familiar...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: San Diego Police Department (via Reddit) The incident: A guy wrote some stuff on the sidewalk in chalk. The appropriate response: Nothing. The actual response: He was arrested and now...
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Dread Judges
Photo via Flickr user DonkeyHotey American politics is a lot like baseball in that basically nothing happens for long, long stretches of time. There are occasional flurries of action, however, when...
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Conceptual Writing, Gender, Murder, and Bob Seger
Conceptual writing is a field where, in the words of one of its biggest proponents, Kenneth Goldsmith, “the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” Taking cues from Andy Warhol and...
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Shimpei Takeda Makes Art Out of Radioactive Dirt
Shimpei Takeda was born in Japan and spent a lot of his youth in the Fukushima, hanging out in the shadow of the reactor that would later meltdown and cause one of the worst nuclear disasters of...
View ArticleNoisey: Noisey Raps - Trinidad James, the Underachievers, Fredo Santana, and...
In this episode of Noisey Raps, host Wilbert L. Cooper meets some of the hottest MCs on the scene including Trinidad James, the Underachievers, Lil' Reese, and Fredo Santana. Just try and keep up....
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