A Few Impressions: Swim On, Cheever
For many, the name Cheever evokes images of rich Yankees in the old suburbs of upstate New York. It’s true that much of his work takes place there, but this milieu was not his natural habitat and the...
View ArticleAfghanistan's Combat Sport Makes Peaceful Warriors
Members of the Kunduz Central Club and their director with Mohammad Anwar in the center. In a large, renovated warehouse in Afghanistan's Kunduz City, 24 young athletes are training like madmen. They...
View ArticleIrish Women Are Buying Abortion Pills Advertised on Streetlamps
Pro-choice activists in Dublin. Photo via Names and identities in this article have been changed. "This is what it's coming to," said Katie. "These stickers are popping up on lampposts all over town."...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Chris Soghoian on NSA Leaks and the Paradox of Privacy
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the...
View ArticleVICE News: Colombia's Hidden Killers - Part 1
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was founded five decades ago as a Marxist people’s army fighting against capitalist imperialism and Colombia’s often-brutal government. And they’ve...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Most Factually Incorrect Museum in America
Dear Guinness World Record Museum, I recently visited your Los Angeles location. As was the case with the Hollywood Wax Museum last month, I was not impressed by what I saw. It's not just that your...
View ArticleWerner Herzog and Errol Morris Talk About 'The Act of Killing'
I saw The Act of Killing in a small theater, with about 20 other people. For some, the documentary was just too intense. More than a handful of viewers had to walk out during the screening. For those...
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View ArticleIf You Wake Up and You’re Not in Pain, You Know You’re Dead
By Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari Art Director: Micol Talso Styled by Sarah Grittini; Hair and Makeup: Lorenzo Zavatta; Producer: Matteo Ferrari Special thanks to Dakis Joannou and Enrico...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Adventure Oasis Water Park (screencap via KSHB/story via Reddit) The incident: A woman went to a water park in a bikini. The appropriate response: Nothing/surreptitiously staring if you...
View ArticleThe 2016 Presidential Campaign Has Begun, God Help Us All
The 2012 presidential campaign was a series of gruesome sideshows that lasted two years and made everyone unhappy. Americans thought the campaign had gone on too long and wanted it to end… in 2011,...
View ArticleDreams Involving Water
There has been no butter for two weeks. A taxi driver thought there might be butter in the supermarket in Miramar. I think so too: I once saw a man in that market buy 20 cases of Coca-Cola in loose...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Travel: Blood Sacrifice in Sumba - Part 2
TRAVEL BLOOD SACRIFICE IN SUMBA WHERE SHAMANS AND WARRIORS WORSHIP HOLY SEA WORMS By Milene Larsson, Photos by James Morgan A Pasola warrior about to throw his spear at a fighter from a rival...
View ArticleMunchies: Daniel Castaño
When Colombians get together, they roll deep. So when we went to Bogotá to sample former Mario Batali pupil Daniel Castaño's classical Italian fare at his restaurant, Emilia Romagna, we brought a...
View ArticleOn the Hunt for 'Indigo Children': The Next Stage in Human Evolution
A Photoshop mock-up of what an indigo child might look like. Images via and via Sankar led me to a small stool that faced a black box about the size of a shoebox. The box was fitted with a tiny lens...
View ArticleNick Gazin's Comic Book Love-in #92
Hello Collectors, This column is my almost-weekly column in which I, Nick Gazin, share news and reviews and photos and links related to comics, illustration, fine art, and nerd things. I hope everyone...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: George Zimmerman Isn't White
Welcome to a special George Zimmerman trial edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist....
View ArticleA Descent into New York's Remarkable Second Avenue Subway
A Descent into New York's Remarkable Second Avenue Subway
View ArticleBag It Up, Grandpa
Dave Cummings, 72, is a porn star, a swinger, and a dude who knows what to eat when you want a "more voluminous, thicker, whiter ejaculate." You probably don’t like to think about your parents having...
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