Chunklet to Go Go : Ignorance Is Bliss
Anybody who’s been listening to music or, God help you, buying records for the last five years or so has probably noticed a tendency towards EVERYTHING EVER becoming available again. Gleefully obscure...
View ArticleTattoo Age: Valerie Vargas Part 2
In the second installment of the Valerie Vargas episode, we take a closer look at Frith Street, the tattoo parlor where she works, and its owner, Dante DiMassa. Valerie also gives us insight into her...
View ArticleVICE News: The Mexican Mormon War Part 3
The Mexican drug cartels are at war... with Mormons. VICE founder Shane Smith went down to Ciudad Juárez, near the US border, to investigate this bizarre story. In Part 3, the cartel boss "El Rikin"...
View ArticleVice Blog: Here's Looking at You, Terrorist
In the wars of the future, solider’s eyes alone won’t be enough to hunt down insurgents. They’ll need a little bit of extra help from the new brain wave-powered binoculars that DARPA just invented....
View ArticleVice Blog: The Death Aquatic
Standing in contrast to documentaries like Planet Earth, whose beautiful shots inspire plenty of oohs and ahhs but not much else, Louie Psihoyos’ new film The Heist is an environmental film designed...
View ArticleVice Blog: Throwing Fifty Shades of Shade at Soho House
Many New York publicists make you feel as though, when they're crossing your name off a press list at the door of an industry event, they are slapping handcuffs on your wrists. So when one actually,...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Elissa Steamer Part 3
In Part 3 of our Elissa Steamer episode, we find our heroine fully confident in her role as a pro skateboarder. When she was not breaking boards, she was breaking hearts, as illustrated by the love...
View ArticleProlate Spheroid Preview: The Best Teams Are Always Changing
Not paying attention to football for months or years and then paying attention again is disorienting. All of a sudden, you realize you don't know any of the best players, and the guys you did know are...
View ArticleWondering...: Another TIFF Bites the Dust… Again
Photo from the Peaches Does Herself TIFF party by Bruce LaBruce It’s time for my second annual list of mini-reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival, which I present partly in the belief...
View ArticleVICE News: The Mexican Mormon War Part 4
The Mexican drug cartels are at war... with Mormons. In Part 4, the Mormons illegally arm themselves and implement counter-terrorism techniques the US military used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
View ArticleVice Blog: Live from Iceland's Black Metal Asshole
After three days of never-ending daylight in Reykjavik, my friend and I rented a car and drove across Iceland. Our destination was the Eistnaflug Black Metal Festival on the east side of the island....
View ArticleVice Blog: Between Revolutions
Havana was built for giant people with histrionic lives, the kinds of bygone lives pictured in the Brazilian telenovelas everybody follows. Many not-well-off Cubans with lives of lesser grandeur...
View ArticleVice Blog: The Horrors of Staying in Touch on Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg has done me, and plenty of people my age and younger, some considerable favors. For instance, I met my wife on Facebook. Zuckerberg basically tossed up an alley-oop, since both my...
View ArticleVice Blog: Treating Actors Like Cattle at the Toronto International Film...
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the behemoth that often launches films on their long, ponderous path to Oscar glory, has come and gone. I hosted two parties during the festival with...
View ArticleVice Blog: Here Is What We Believe to Be a Near-Final 2011 Draft of the...
Editor’s Note: Last Friday, VICE deduced the true identity of Innocence of Muslims director Alan Roberts. While gathering information on the mysterious director, we spoke with a man named Jimmy Israel...
View ArticleVice Blog: Aliens Do It Better
For decades men have been jerkin’ it to fantasies of alien female characters in TV shows and movies who are basically just hot human women wearing uncomfortable costumes or painted some ridiculous...
View ArticleJefes: Tim Freccia
When Tim was 16, he worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. After a few brushes with death, he switched to what he figured would be a safer career option: photography. Thing is, Tim’s chosen...
View ArticleVice Blog: A Thing or Two About Kanye West's 'Cruel Summer' Album
The movie Prometheus contains a scene that I find particularly salient when discussing the music of Kanye West. The hero, Charlie, a smartass Alpha-Scientist who only exists in works of fiction, is...
View ArticleGirl Eats Food: Filipino Blood Stew
FILIPINO BLOOD STEW - THE RECIPE The Philippines! The jewel of the orient, purveyors of the greatest hip-hop dance troupes, and probz the most colonized place in the world. But although I'm a proud...
View ArticlePen Pals: Finish What You Start
People act like complete jackasses in prison even under normal circumstances, but I’ve been seeing some unfuckwithable tomfoolery recently. My bunkie had his face beat in a few weeks ago and somehow...
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