The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia
All photos by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky. Noah Friedman-Rudovsky also contributed reporting to this article. F or a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the town’s women....
View ArticleDetroit Is Already Starting to Gentrify
Just before the city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection on July 18, Whole Foods opened a relatively low-priced version of their store in Midtown Detroit, the area around Wayne State...
View ArticleHere Are All the Laws Passed by the Worst Congress of All Time
The US Capitol as photographed by Flickr user Robert Hensley. The 113th United States Congress got together at the beginning of this year to start the difficult task of governing the Most Powerful...
View ArticleWeiner’s Dong, and Other Products of the Perfected Civilization
Several miles outside central Sofia, in an industrial park in the Izgrev District, the Museum of Socialist Art occupies a blocky modern low-rise that could pass for a progressive high school in any...
View ArticleIf You Liked '1984,' You'll Love 2013!
On Sunday, the grassroots organization Restore the Fourth rallied activists across the country for the second time this year to protest the National Security Agency’s dragnet-style surveillance...
View ArticleIt’s Good to Be the King
Franco Loja, head breeder for the Green House Seed Company, inspects a specimen of the marijuana strain called Limon Verde in the Cauca region of Colombia. All photos by Jackson Fager. O ne afternoon...
View ArticleJohnny Ryan's Chick Tracts
A while back I was looking for a series of things to vandalize and post online for laughs. I started with photos from magazines and wrestling cards, and they were OK, but I wanted something a bit more...
View ArticleIt's Now Possible to Hire Fake Protesters
Fake protesters marching in Los Angeles. Crowds on Demand, as the name suggests, is a company that will organize a crowd for you, on demand. The main two times this service is required are: A)...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Mishka's Fall 2013 Collection Video
Mishka has been running streetwear for the past ten years. It’s become a staple brand for miscreants of all stripes—from skate punks and comics nerds to hip-hop heads and ghetto-goth kids. Which is...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Prison Breaks Could Lead to a New Wave of Terror Attacks
Over the past couple of weeks almost 2,000 inmates, including “hundreds of terrorists,” have escaped from prisons in Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan. The series of ultra-violent, highly organized attacks...
View ArticlePen Pals: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Through the Eyes of an Ex-Con
Even before I got locked up, I enjoyed reading and watching prison-centric shit, 'cause like many people I’m fascinated by the subculture of the incarcerated. I’m not quite sure why so many people...
View ArticleFringes: UFO Welcome Center
Jody Pendarvis is a kooky southern gentleman who has built a ramshackle UFO welcome center in his backyard in rural Bowman, South Carolina. If aliens happen to land around Bowman, they'll be greeted...
View ArticleDon't Let Mumford & Sons Trick You Into Liking Them
Don't Let Mumford & Sons Trick You Into Liking Them
View ArticleTechno-Raving and Dead-Goat Polo at the Silk Road Festival
At the end of June, while a bunch of people were losing their minds listening to music and stomping around Chicago, I too was surrounded by good vibes and thousands of revelers glued to a sound system...
View ArticleMexico’s Female Professional Wrestlers Do It for the Love
All photos and videos coutesy Marta Franco At this point lucha libre, Mexico’s version of professional wrestling, is famous the world over—the superheroesque masks, the muscled men preening and acting...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: All Over the Place in New York
I’ve seen a few things lately. They’re all mixed up in my mind. So I figured I should just try to get them all down on paper and share them with you: Up until last weekend, Paul McCarthy and his son...
View ArticleThe Chemical Valley - Trailer
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Forty percent of Canada's petrochemical industry is packed into a 15-square-mile area in Sarnia, Ontario, called the Chemical Valley. More than 60...
View ArticleWatching Three People Share a $384,000 Burger Is Surprisingly Boring
As the world’s population hurtles toward an estimated 9 billion by 2050, global food shortages are becoming a very real problem. In no sector is this more apparent than the meat industry. The UN's...
View ArticleThe 12 Least Overrated Things in Los Angeles
Photo by Flickr User Elvez40 Here at VICE, it’s not uncommon for us to write disparagingly about the city of Los Angeles. We actually do it pretty often. Probably because most of us are sitting in...
View ArticleBroken-Winged Youth
Click through to the next page for more images by Margaret Durow and Brigette Bloom. More from our 2013 Photo Issue: Manic Botanic Place of the Inside Out Terram Tenebrosam
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