Toxic: America's Water Crisis Part 3
Freshwater in California's San Joaquin Valley is on the brink of disappearing. While Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal for a peripheral canal is reigniting centuries-old battles over water rights,...
View ArticleWant to Help Hurricane Sandy Victims? Buy This Mishka T-Shirt
Mishka is doing their part to help with the recovery from Hurricane Sandy's devastation by doing what they do best: making expensive T-shirts. Mishka has produced 65 special shirts with their familiar...
View ArticleVito Fun's Summer Photo Dump 2012
The days of snow cones and skinny dipping in the East River are history, people. Winter came in fierce a couple of weeks ago with its bitch mistress Sandy, and from here on out it's going to be all...
View ArticleBollocks to the Hippocratic Oath: How to Drink Until Your Ass Bleeds
Disclaimer: Some of you might remember this column from a few years back when we still lived at Viceland. When we moved to VICE.com, though, it disappeared, so now we've dug it up. Enjoy. Photo by...
View ArticleThe Roof of the World Is in Afghanistan
Remote and isolated, the Wakhan Corridor in northeast Afghanistan is blissfully far from the troubles and conflict that concern the rest of the country. Think Asterix's small Gaul village in the...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Sontiago's "Muscle Car" Video
We were sent the premiere of Sontiago's new video for "Muscle Car," but we don't know much about her. A brief Nancy Drew around her Facebook page reveals that she lives in Portland, Maine (What's...
View ArticleGunrunning with the Free Syrian Army
Members of a Free Syrian Army brigade take a break from fighting to pose for a group photo B lindfolded, I fidgeted nervously in the back of an unmarked car, squished between a gunrunner and a young...
View ArticleWe're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
Eco-horror has been around forever, and the premise propelling the genre couldn’t be simpler or more primal: man tampers with nature—or worse, ruins nature—and nature bitch slaps man. Films adhering...
View ArticleJason Nocito Has a Distant Lover
Jason Nocito, our bearded photographer-genius friend, has a new photoshow opening this Thursday in San Fransisco. Entitled "I Heart Transylvania," the show features work Jason made over a four year...
View ArticleHallucinating at the Foot Massage Parlor with Rush Drummer Neil Peart
Rush’s Neil Peart is one of the greatest drummers of all time. Despite what you think of the band Rush (the Canadian prog-rock trio who have sold 40 million albums), Peart’s preeminence on the sticks...
View ArticleIs the Russian Mormon Church an FBI Front?
The Young Guard is the youth wing of President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia Party. They've tended to exist as a less intense, less Hitler Youth-like version of Nashi, a similar...
View ArticleJust Because You’re Bored Doesn’t Mean You Have to Be a Surrealist
Surrealism is pretty stupid. It’s always just about women with clocks for faces or animals that can use cell phones. It wants you to believe it deserves more attention for pretending everything about...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What's the Most Disturbing Thing You've Seen Online?
Back in the 60s, a bunch of crazy intelligent, electrical magicians created an early version of the internet. Back then, the internet looked a bit like a Ceefax page (RIP, sweet prince) and was...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll - Gang Bangs and Quaaludes
SEX - GANG BANGS There are more types of group sex than strands of herpes on the Rolling Stones' tour bus: threesomes, orgies, swinging, even god-damn circle jerks. But how, you may ask, as you...
View ArticleSlutever: San Francisco Sex Mecca
Karley has been feeling a bit oppressed lately by all the negative comments on her blog, like for examps when people call her a "desperate slut from hell" or "God's period" and stuff. Luckily, through...
View ArticleLiving in a Nightclub for a Year Can Get Messy
I lived with some friends between 2007 and 2008 in a small apartment above a club called TJ's in Newport, Wales. We didn't have to pay rent. Instead, we ran errands for the owner of the club, a man...
View ArticleThousands Are Losing Their Limbs in Assad’s War
Chavia with members of the Cultural Forum for People with Special Needs in Syria, outside the House of Peace in Homs, 2011. Chavia Ali is the 32-year-old chairwoman of the Cultural Forum for People...
View ArticleSome People Made a Breastfeeding Baby Toy
Oh, childhood—a time for innocent playing, pretending, and nonchalantly eating things that are technically classified as poisonous. But the general consensus is that this current generation of kids...
View ArticleThe New Orleans Murder Wall Won't Stop Growing
Historically, New Orleans is the city of jazz, Mardi Gras, and semi-functional alcoholics. But while its residents are famous the world over for drinking hurricanes and showing their tits in exchange...
View ArticleMy Abortion Story
Last year I got knocked up by a dating coach. I can’t claim naivety since I knew what his profession was and had even sat in on a conference call while he attempted to guide a group of men from around...
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