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Who Feels Bad for the KKK?
Sharmeka Moffitt Last Sunday, the world was appalled to hear that the Ku Klux Klan had set a 20-year-old black woman on fire. Sharmeka Moffitt claimed that three attackers wearing white hoods had...
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Ola Rindal's Untold Story
Ola Rindal was born in a small town in the Norwegian countryside. He left to study in Sweden before settling in Paris in 2001, where he has lived ever since. Ola is one of those gems who is more known...
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Wide World of Balls: The Giants Won Everything
There was this super intense storm on Sunday night and it wiped out all the scores. Luckily, I found them, and they are 2-1, 21-14, 1-1 (OT), 5-3, 65-4, and (forfeit). Hope that helps, and the rest of...
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Bush-League Rebels
The dreaded National Police pose for our cameras in Dungu. On my first day embedded with the UN stabilization force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), I visited a camp in the city of Goma...
View ArticleGround Zero: Syria - The Burning of the Old Souk
Amid a fierce battle between Assad's security forces and Free Syrian Army insurgents, fire swept through the old Souk of Aleppo, a historic covered market and World Heritage site. Rebel fighters and...
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Tour Stories: Boy Band, Manly Erection
Last week I had the flu. Bad. You know, the kind of flu where you’re so sick you’re delirious? I couldn’t think of the last time that I felt that awful, but then I remembered. I had a 102 fever, and I...
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Dogmageddon: Happy JesusWeen, Everyone!
While the existence of religious fanatics are, without a doubt, the biggest and most direct cause to many of the world's problems, it's impossible for me to say that life would really be better...
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We Interviewed Sab Grey From Iron Cross
When most people conjure up an image of the early 80s D.C. Hardcore Punk scene, they usually think it’s all squeaky clean bald heads, skateboards, twinkies, and cola. If that’s the case, where the...
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Wondering...: Scary Photos for Scary Times
In this scariest of seasons—the final run-up to the interminable train wreck of a US presidential campaign—oh, and also Halloween—horror imagery is everywhere. A “monster” of a hurricane that the...
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Question of the Day: Is There a Hell?
The idea of heaven—that you’ll be rewarded for good behavior by playing a harp in the clouds—is pretty silly, but hell seems much more likely to exist. If there is a God, based on his behavior in the...
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I Was a Haunted House's Werewolf Pirate
Photos by Annie Fichtner Highland Park Mall is a total shithole. Nestled in the northern stretches of Austin, Texas, it’s practically the dictionary definition of urban decay. It’s huge, but...
View ArticleWinds of Change
If by now you’re still doubting that Sandy is massive, take a gander at that map of the country’s wind above. About a third of the country’s wind is being pulled into a massive whirlpool by Sandy’s...
View ArticleWelcome the New Robot National Guard
As Sandy’s windy tentacles ease their strangle-hold on New England, the Pentagon is calling on the country’s top engineers to build an ensemble of rescue robots that would deploy when the next big one...
View ArticleGordon Holden's Rhode Island
It's a little hard to hype up Gordon Holden's photography. He doesn't take pictures of people on fire in warzones, heavy metal cowboys from Botswana or hulking, dilapidated post-space age...
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The Swedes Have the Pirate Bay's Co-Founder in Solitary Confinement
After covering the Kafkaesque nightmare of the Pirate Bay’s current legal predicament and the apparent infowar against pirates in Sweden, it appears that Gottfrid Svartholm—one of the Pirate Bay’s...
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Passing Notes with Kelley Deal and Mike Montgomery of R.Ring
R.Ring is a beautiful and sentimental collaboration between Kelley Deal (from The Breeders) and Mike Montgomery (from Ampline). When I was approached about doing an interview with them, I developed...
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2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We’ll Really Be in Trouble
Illustration by Daniel David Freeman Peter Turchin is a Russian-American scientist who specializes in population biology and devises theories, backed by cumulative scientific evidence, that, in their...
View ArticleSomething Fishy
Deep in Southwest Alaska, surrounded by mosquito- and grizzly-infested tundra, lies an abandoned salmon cannery known locally as Graveyard Point. The cannery sits at the mouth of the Kvichak River,...
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VICE Premiere: "Possessed 2 Party (With U)" by Mean Jeans
We love Mean Jeans in an important way. Their music produces a feeling of joy. JOY! Chances are, we'll premiere all their stuff whenever asked (see, we did it for their last video), so of course we're...
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The Dark Logic of Clarice Lispector
Though long considered one of the most important writers in Brazil, Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) has only recently begun to gain appreciation among US audiences. Formally fearless and possessed of an...
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