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Popping the Marks: The Prophet Muhammad Vs. John Cena
Hadith traditions and early biographical literature on Muhammad include an episode in which he takes on the strongest wrestler of his tribe, a man named Rukana. The wrestler promises that he will...
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We Were Nominated for an Emmy
Not sure if you've heard, but we've got a show on a little network called HBO. It's called VICE and in it we've carried on our time-honored tradition of telling insane and uncomfortable stories from...
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The Beatles Are Dead, Fassbinder Is Alive
Still from In a Year with 13 Moons My favorite music videos were always the ones that looked like the bands had been locked in a house somewhere, forced to take part in a nightmarish Kenneth Anger or...
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VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Madame Tutli Putli'
Way back in the day, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski started what would become one of the more peculiar comics VICE has had the pleasure of publishing. It was called The Untold Tales of Yuri...
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The 2013 VICE Photo Show: It's Like the Magazine, but Bigger
Do you like our new Photo Issue? Have you soaked up all its beauty and insanity with your greedy eyes like a sponge in an ocean of bliss? Do you sleep with it under your pillow? Did you introduce it...
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Souls of Mischief and Adrian Younge Look Back to Move Forward
Walking through the gated entrance to an unmarked recording studio on the northside of industrial Williamsburg, I encountered four legendary rappers slumped on a couch, trying to decide what to order...
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The Zetas' Leader Has Been Captured, but Is That Really Such a Good Thing?
The mugshot of Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the captured leader of Los Zetas cartel. On Monday, the leader of the most brutal crime syndicate in Mexico was captured alive. Miguel Angel Treviño...
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Afghanistan's Skate Camp for Kids
Fareed Wahidi is tearing it up. The 16-year old Afghan looks like he was born on a deck, plunging down a steep ramp and blasting off the other side. Until two years ago he’d never seen a real...
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The George Zimmerman Trial Reminded Me of Who I Am in America
The author on his way to Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Erica Euse. It’s easier to hide from the specter of Trayvon Martin than it is to face his dead body sprawled awkwardly on the concrete. I was...
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Picture Perfect: Asger Carlsen
Selected from "Place of the Inside Out," from the 2013 VICE Photo Issue. We visit Asger Carlsen in his studio in Chinatown and talk to him about his life, his work, and why he is a lazy artist who is...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Clown Town Children's Center (story via/image via) The incident: Some people sang "Happy Birthday." The appropriate reprsponse: Singing along/Moving your lips as though you're singing...
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Seven Musical 'Seinfeld' Guest Appearances We'd Like to See
View ArticleVICE News: Fake Funerals in South Korea
Despite its booming economy, the people of South Korea have never been more unhappy. With an average of 43 suicides per day, it's the suicide capital of the developed world and Asia's unhappiest...
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We Are Not Men: Land of the Free, Home of the Cave
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
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High Dives and Manicures at Saddam's Presidential Palace
The author sitting by the pool at Saddam Hussein's palace. Baghdad, July 15, 2003 – As far as I was concerned, the war was over. The president said so and we weren’t shooting anyone; we were just...
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Comic-Con Parties Are Where Nerds Go to Feel Sexy
When I first heard about this thing called "Comic-Con" many years ago, I was told that it wasn't just a great place to get back issues of The Amazing Spider-Man. It was also a nexus for the entire...
View ArticleVICE News: Egypt After Morsi - Part 3
The morning after the battle on July 5, both sides buried their dead and vowed revenge. More than 30 people were killed in one day of political violence across Egypt, and the country was spiraling out...
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A New Cryptocurrency Wants to Capture the Wasted Energy of Bitcoin's Algorithm
Image via Flickr Some of us are taken with bitcoin. We have learned its basics, and are more or less versed with its socioeconomic implications. We get it. But when an acquaintance of mine told me...
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The Canadian Government Is Withholding Documents Concerning the Torture of...
A class picture from St. Paul's Indian Industrial School in Middlechurch, Manitoba. via WikiCommons. In the early 1990s an affiliation of Cochrane, Kapuskasing, and James Bay’s OPP (Ontario Provincial...
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Mexicalia: The Subway Gangs of Mexico City
NEWS The Subterranean Scene On the Rails with Mexico City’s Reggaeton-Loving Subway Gangs By Bernardo Loyola The subway authorities move passengers to different cars so that the Sikarios will bother...
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