Al Qaeda's Somalia Cell Is Fractured and Dangerous
Members of the ubiquitous security force that keeps everything so oppressively quiet. Photos courtesy of the author. Qawdhan slouches on the floor of the wicker-frame hut across from me, his back to...
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In Euripides’s The Bacchae, Dionysus comes to the city and enchants all the women. They follow him out to the woods where wild dances take place under the trance of the god. This is Dionysus before...
View ArticleReviewed: The Limp Bizkit Comeback Video the World Has Been Waiting for
Oh shit—the game just changed again. Limp Bizkit has emerged from a ten-year hiatus from being popular to drop the video for their pant-tightener of a comeback single, "Ready To Go," which features...
View ArticleMississippi Police Want to Arrest the Satanists Who Turn Dead People Gay
Just over a week ago the Satanic Temple, unwavering disciples of the Prince of Darkness and aspiring adopt-a-highway participants, performed a Pink Mass over the grave of Catherine Idalette Johnston,...
View ArticleCome Into My Head: Dear Mattel, Here Is How to Make a Goth Doll
A photo of the author during her high school years. Monster High dolls are currently one of the best-selling dolls in the world. The dolls are like Barbie’s Goth cousin—the one who buys black and...
View ArticleThe English Way
Photos by Martin Parr & text by Kate Fox. I don’t read books much. I prefer my inspiration to come in the form of films, art, and photography. But I stumbled across one book, which I read cover to...
View ArticlePope Francis Is Shockingly Good at Social Media
The Pope with a levitating child. via Flickr. Perhaps you haven’t been following the comings and goings of Pope Francis the way I have, but the pontiff is currently in Rio for the Catholic Church’s...
View ArticleDonkey Bomber Kills Three US Soldiers and an Interpreter
For three days straight in Wardak Province, we went on early-morning, joint foot patrols with an American Army platoon and a squad of Afghan National Army soldiers in a valley flush with summer wheat...
View ArticleThe Truth Behind the Battle for London's Housing
The eviction of Rushcroft Road. Photo by Jake Lewis. Last week, UK police and bailiffs descended on Brixton to evict a community of squatters. However, when they arrived on Rushcroft Road and poured...
View ArticleGround Zero: Syria - Aleppo's Child Nurse
As Assad’s troops and the Free Syrian Army continue to battle in the middle of Aleppo and Syrian doctors try to flee the country, Dar al-Shifa’a hospital serves as the only option for birthing...
View ArticleTake a Trip Down Memory Lane with Emmy-Nominated 'VICE'
We're not a reflective bunch here at the VICE offices. We're constantly pushing out new shit like a kid who's just chugged three jugs of chocolate milk on a hot summer day. But every now and then,...
View ArticleLines and Curves
Photos by Petra Collins & Arvida Byström More from VICE's 2013 Photo Issue: The English Way Manic Botanic Place of the Inside Out
View ArticleIt Was an Unhappy Second Birthday for the Youngest Country On Earth
SPLA soldiers in South Sudan. Photo via South Sudan celebrated its second birthday earlier this month. But festivities for the anniversary of its independence were quiet, presumably because there was...
View ArticleArt Talk: CODA
CODA is a studio for architectural and urban research and design established by Caroline O'Donnell in New York in 2008, and now based in Ithaca, New York. Caroline is currently the Richard Meier...
View ArticleWeediquette: Kings of Cannabis - Trailer
You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but you’ve probably smoked his weed. Arjan’s been breeding some of the most famous marijuana strains in the world—like White Widow, Super Silver Haze, and many...
View ArticleDetroit's Bankruptcy Highlights the Cruelty of American Capitalism
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Photo by Flickr User Quick fix Four Van Goghs, one Caravaggio, and enormous Diego Rivera murals celebrating the industrial working class are amongst the estimated $2...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to Predictability? Pondering the TV Songs of the 80s
Whatever Happened to Predictability? Pondering the TV Songs of the 80s
View ArticleHave the Skouries Protesters Really Defeated the EU, Goldminers, and Terror...
El Dorado, the Canadian company that owns controversial gold mines in Greece's Skouries forest, has announced that it will stop all works in the area until at least 2016. According to a company...
View ArticleTeenage Exorcists - Trailer
Sick of taking responsibility for the shitty things that have happened to you in your life? Help is on the way, in the virginal and strangely vacant form of three bible-thumping teenage exorcists from...
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