Vice Blog: Taji’s Mahal - Clayton Patterson’s Lower East Side
Clayton Patterson is a legend. When everyone else was using giant shoulder cams and multiple sound guys to make documentaries, he was using a handheld video camera as a tool for activism. In 1988, he...
View ArticleVice Blog: Big Surprise - At WAR with SABR
Trouble With the Curve won’t be in theatres until September 21st, but it’s already being called the “anti-Moneyball.” The movie stars Clint Eastwood as an aging baseball scout who is losing his sight,...
View ArticleVice Blog: Krohn’s Disease - Angry Lesbians Are Everywhere
Angry people are everywhere. I should know because I’m one of them. I’m not a lesbian, but I am very angry. Mostly at people, but occasionally at animals and institutions. (I’m looking at you...
View ArticleVice Blog: Jason Dill: This Is Your Life
Our own columnist, Chris Nieratko, and Alien Workshop pro, Jason Dill, have been friends since the 90s (this photo of the two is from 1998, when Nieratko was thin) and this week they teamed up to...
View ArticleVice Blog: A Skinhead from Guatemala Tells It Like It Is
In what can be possibly be the only other immediate link between British and New York City youth of the 1980s (besides jerking off to Madonna videos), the Skinhead movement completely battered the...
View ArticleVice Blog: Sweaty Street Style at Jen Kao's NYFW Show
My first runway show of New York Fashion Week was Jen Kao, who decided to have her shin dig over at the Public Library on 42nd Street. As I arrived to the entrance dripping in grossness thanks to the...
View ArticleVice Blog: I Saw Quicksand Three Times in One Week
You can really tell how much you like a band by how long you’ve been listening to them. Quicksand is one of those bands. I’ve been listening to them for over 20 years, and every time I hear them it...
View ArticleVice Blog: Animal Chin Changed Skateboarding Three Times
I watched The Search for Animal Chin for the billionth time recently and nothing changed. The dialog was still goofy, the acting awkward, and the “plot” scattered. But that’s OK. We’re not talking...
View ArticleVice Blog: For a Diffusion Line, MM6 Maison Martin Margiela Doesn't Suck
Martin Margiela was a fashion genius who helped us realize that a little white paint can transform trash into high fashion and ordinary accessories like a glove or belt can be the building block of a...
View ArticleEye for an Eye: Chicago Interrupted - Part 1
In Part 1 of Chicago Interrupted, we meet Tio Hardiman and Ameena Matthews of Chicago CeaseFire, a violence prevention organization that mediates potentially violent situations. We tag along with...
View ArticleVice Blog: A Puzzle
Polish author Stanisław Lem is arguably the most celebrated writer of science fiction among the most stringent and hard-core guardians of the genre. His widely read 1961 novel Solaris revolves around...
View ArticleVice Blog: I Am Letting the Machines Run My Fantasy Football Team
It’s a feeling that probably 20 percent of American sports fans have experienced. You’re at a cool place doing a fun thing, maybe you’re on the subway or at dinner. It hits you like a freight...
View ArticleVice Blog: We Had a Convo Date with Kreayshawn and a Taxidermy Bear
Kreayshawn first stepped into our hearts when her song "Gucci Gucci" was all over the place. Out of nowhere, she was the talk of the internet and it seemed like people were either very much FOR her,...
View ArticleVice Blog: Berlin Story: Adieu, Tacheles
The city of Berlin oversaw the end of an era last week, with the eviction of Kunsthalle Tacheles, a monumental art space that has been occupying the abandoned wreck of a shopping center on...
View ArticleVICE News: Israel's Radical Left Full Length
VICE travels to Israel to meet young members of the growing radical left, in the lead up to the one-year anniversary of the biggest protest in Israel’s history. Last summer, while the world was busy...
View ArticleVice Blog: Telfar Makes Some Creepy Clothes and 'Gallery Girls' Still Hate on BK
I went downtown to Telfar’s presentation at Jack Chiles Gallery on Bowery. Telfar is a menswear designer, who is the latest addition to Opening Ceremony. He is known, among other projects, for his...
View ArticleVice Blog: Charlotte Ronson's NYFW Show Attracted a Motley Fashion Crew
I’ll always have a soft spot for Charlotte Ronson. Her Spring 2009 show was the first Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week show I ever attended back in the fall of 2008, and on top of that, I snuck in. This was...
View ArticleVice Blog: Dogmageddon - Party Time!
If you're a progressive type, there was plenty to love about the Democratic National Convention. You had mentions of “the right to marry the person you love” (a nicely humanizing way of throwing...
View ArticleVice Blog: Why I Think Fashion Week Is Stupid
Like the swans returning to Capistrano or all your friends jumping off a bridge, it's that annual ritual where a million fashion students parade around in public wearing all of their thrift store...
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