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VICE News: The Chemical Valley - Part 2
NEWS I Left My Lungs in Aamjiwnaang Breathing the Most Polluted Air in Canada By Patrick McGuire One of the many unintentionally ironic signs in the Chemical Valley. The first thing you notice about...
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My Time with One of Somaliland’s Khat Kingpins
The author, sitting with the owner of the Gargaar company. At around 9 PM in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a man shuffles in through the side door of the Gargaar company headquarters carrying a lumpy burlap...
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We Are Not Men: Scott Disick: American Psycho
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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Cyber Criminals Hate Brian Krebs So Much They Sent Heroin and SWAT Teams to...
The heroin delivered to Brian Krebs' home by Russian carders. If you have the right kind of knowledge, enough free time, and a penchant for misanthropy, the internet can provide the means to make...
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There Was a Harry Potter Craft Faire in Los Angeles
When nerds aren’t fighting each other on the battle lines for the glory of being the “ultimate fan,” they relax within safe havens like the “Harry Potter Store,” in Los Angeles, CA. Whimsic Alley, as...
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Li'l Thinks: The End of High-Low
Illustration by Penelope Gazin By now, to say that highbrow and lowbrow—or high culture and low culture—form a false dichotomy is pretty, you know, obvs. Maybe we’ve felt it to be true for a while,...
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Drinking Camel Urine in Yemen
People have been consuming camel piss on the Arabian Peninsula for a long, long time. It’s been used by the Bedouin people as a shampoo and medicine for centuries, and it’s part of Muslim tradition as...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Lorenzo Riggins (via Reddit) The incident: McDonalds messed up a guy's order. The appropriate response: Complaining to the manager. The actual response: He called the police. Last...
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New York State of Mind: The Wu-Tang Clan Swarm London
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
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A Decade of Photos from London's Southbank Skate Park
Remember when we wrote that article a few months ago about how it would suck for London if Southbank skate park was shut down? Well, it's been saved, if only temporarily. After months of campaigning...
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Seinfeld2000 Imagines if Jerry Seinfeld and Death Grips Put on a "Show about Nothing"
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Are We There Yet? - Apocalyptic Christians Are Boring
Are We There Yet? is a feature in which I break down the current issue of Endtime magazine, the bimonthly print publication of Endtime Ministries. As you might have guessed, Endtime’s purpose is to...
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David Gordon Green Talks About His New Movie, 'Prince Avalanche'
Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in Prince Avalanche. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures David Gordon Green is a tough man to pin down. He began his career with the intimate and lyrical dramas George...
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Interviewing the Editor of the Middle East's Version of the 'Onion'
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohamed Morsi playing squash. All images courtesy of the Pan-Arabia Enquirer For reasons pertaining to sanity, it tends to be useful to occasionally find humor in the midst of...
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The Demise of Lavabit and Silent Circle Means Your Emails Will Never Be Safe...
The NSA's headquarters in Maryland. Photo via This week, two encrypted email providers shut down their services, and that’s very bad news if you’d rather the government didn’t read your private...
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The Burka Avenger's Creator Talks About the Pakistani Cartoon's Haters
Burka Avenger is a Pakistani cartoon about an ass-kicking superheroine who fights bad guys and wears a ninja-style burka to conceal her identity. The show has been making its rounds through the media...
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Question of the Day: Is It OK to Steal from Rich People?
Kim Kardashian is a rich person with lots of stuff. Photo via I know, I know—we were all brought up to understand that stealing is wrong. But is stealing really that wrong when the person you're...
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This Week in Racism: Oprah Accused a Swiss Person of Racism
Photo by Flickr User whoohoo120 Welcome to another 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...
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From the Eye of the Storm: Zeena Schreck Knows a Thing or Two About Vice
I mentioned to some friends that I'd be writing for VICE, and they couldn't contain their enthusiasm. One of them, a German, asked me what vice actually means for an English speaker. I pointed to his...
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