Road Trip: Finding Marion Barry
On Monday former VICE managing editor and recently appointed cultural news editor of the Daily Beast Michael Moynihan and I headed to Washington, DC to see what our nation's great capital had to say...
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Question of the Day: Would You Want to Age Backwards Like Benjamin Button?
You're born, you get old, your body turns to shit, you die. Booooring. Wouldn't it be nice to have some variety in the whole "we get older the longer we are alive" cliche? For instance, what if we...
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Enough with the Fucking CBGB Shirts Already
This is what it's come to. If you were to take an afternoon stroll down the Bowery back in 1955, you'd be treated a mile-long toilet filled with retching winos, shifty-eyed thieves, and passed-out...
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Spending Money and Stalking Kanye West at the Maison Martin Margiela for H&M...
Keeping the tradition alive of over-the-top launch parties, H&M threw yet another one of their epic shindigs to celebrate their soon-to-be-released designer collaboration with Paris-based avant...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal - Rammellzee Galaxseum
This week, I went to the Children’s Museum of the Arts to check out the Rammellzee Galaxseum. The museum is not too far from the “Battle Station” in TriBeCa, where Rammellzee, an early graffiti...
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Old Men I Want to Have Filthy Sex With
I’m not one of those girls with an old man fetish. Although sometimes I wish I were, because I get a perverse satisfaction when I see an old guy with a perky-boobed 20-something. It’s sort of like...
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Hey Boston, Thanks to Annie Dookhan Your Streets Will Soon Be Flooded with...
(Photo from MyFox25) Annie Dookhan was just your average, over-worked state employee, punching the clock at the Hinton State Laboratory in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Her duties, testing drug...
View ArticleThe Mercy Rule: Champions and Winners
Major League Baseball spends a lot of time trying to fix things. There is the decade-spanning attempt to "fix" the problem of performance-enhancing drugs in the game, which—like even your more...
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Humans Built a Frankenstorm Factory, and Now We've Got to Live in It
We are all happy little Dr. Frankensteins these days, the climate our unruly monster. We burn as much fossilized organic matter as we can to keep our lively cities humming. It’s a pretty grand...
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The Legend of Baiowolf
It was a calm October night. Moonlight spilled down into the Valley. The California air was sweet with jasmine, orange blossoms, and the runoff of a nearby celebrity fragrance factory. Suddenly a...
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Weediquette - Fresh Greens
Different intoxicants are consumed in different ways, and I don’t just mean the methods that you use to put them into your body. I’m talking about the customs that arise around intoxicants. These have...
View ArticleThe Vice Guide to Voting - Otherkin
The deciding day of the 2012 election draws near, and as a politically undecided man-dolphin, you're not sure where to cast your vote. Where do the candidates stand on the right to life for demonkin?...
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France’s Secular Opposition to Gay Marriage
A couple of days ago, around 200 protesters gathered in the central plaza in Toulouse to protest proposed legislation to make gay marriage legal. In France, like in the United States, same-sex...
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Hey Assholes, ‘Arab’ Is Not a Halloween Costume
I was doing some online shopping this week, and it got me thinking about the fine line between tastefully incorporating the aesthetics of another culture and being a straight up ignorant asshole—and...
View ArticleMarshall Headphones: On the Road: Groupies, Dicks And the Pitbull - Trailer
Cynthia Plaster Caster is probably the most famous groupie of all time. Aside from being known for “hanging around” with the likes of Led Zeppelin, she rose to fame for her party trick – making casts...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Bay Area Part 3
Eddie gets a fresh hair cut from Julez of the Barber Gang, a crew of Filipinos who do fades and liners in San Francisco's Little Manila neighborhood. Then Eddie heads to Julez's favorite Filipino...
View ArticleParsons Portal
Depending on whom you ask, I’m about to be sucked into a Hell portal that allegedly sits in caverns somewhere around NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The place looks almost calm from here – I’m standing...
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Bob Odenkirk’s Page: Tell Us About Your Tats!
Every tattoo tells a story and has a story—that’s two stories per tat! So every month we stop someone on the street and ask them to “tell us ’bout them tats!” We even say it just like that, with a...
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Is It Time We All Stopped Coming Out?
A girlfriend recently spent a substantial portion of a night out sticking her tongue down the throat of a man who we’d recently me and presumed was gay. Just a couple smooches between platonic...
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