Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Don Lemon (via) The incident: A CNN news anchor met the actor Jonah Hill in a hotel lobby, had a brief exchange, then shook his hand. The appropriate reaction: Nothing. The actual...
View ArticleJerky Boys Creator Johnny Brennan Wants to Show You His Piss Clams
My parents still don’t know why I turned out the way I did, but one man deserves at least 30 percent of the credit (or blame): Johnny Brennan, creator of the Jerky Boys. In early 1994, I bought a copy...
View ArticleWide World of Balls: Canadian Man Delivers Whupping to Non-Canadian
It was a busy week in sports: A couple of schools maybe changed conferences, all the big-time major baseball awards were awarded, football happened as usual, and the Knicks continued to win, which is...
View ArticleThe Gaza Strip Cyber War
As military strikes between Israel and Gaza continued with the deaths of 11 Palestinian civilians on Sunday, a complicated internet battlefront has appeared. A virtual info-war is just beginning, and...
View ArticleWhat Gifts Did Obama Give His America-Hating Voters?
We all know Mitt Romney didn't lose the presidential election because he's a no-lips having plastic-faced flipflopper who ran a demographically unrealistic and disorganized campaign and boasted no...
View ArticleWe Threw Up with John McCauley of Deer Tick
As a journalist, I’m hesitant to pass judgment as to whether or not a band is “about” something. Music is a beautiful, ineffable entity and to say that a piece of music is actively about one certain...
View ArticleThirteen Hours of Twilight Made Me Feel Feelings
In the lobby of the Arclight Theatres in Pasadena, California, there is a merch table containing—among other Twilight-themed curios—a set of “Cullen Crest Jelly Bangles.” Examining the piece of...
View ArticleFuck Israel
Florence. As soon as I got there last month I thought: Now things will be all right for a while. I had booked a flight for Tirana when an apartment in Fiesole fell through. The only things they have...
View ArticleThe "Pretty Sweet" Premiere After Party Was Pretty Sweet
On Friday, VICE got together with Chocolate and Girl skateboards to celebrate the premiere of their new skate video, Pretty Sweet. A bunch of cool people were there, including Snoop Dogg (who DJ'd...
View ArticleKill the Engine: Permitted Snooping
I mentioned last week that the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) was taking place. If you don't believe me you can go back and check. See. Yesterday I participated in the tour by grabbing my bicycle...
View ArticleWe Saw This: Nude Beach and Roky Erickson
So this past weekend I went to Memphis, Tennessee, to help my GIRLFRIEND celebrate her 30th birthday. While we were there, we went to a lively little live music establishment called Hi-Tone to see...
View ArticleDon’t Confront Violent Youth Karate Instructors
In an undisclosed afternoon crevice of our country, there is a treacherous, militaristic man teaching Karate to children in a high school gymnasium. You can hear him screaming a quarter-mile away. He...
View ArticleDogmageddon: The Collection Plate
If you grew up on the South Side of Chicago, you went to mass every Sunday. Not so much because you were super into Jesus & His sidekick, The Pope, as much as it was just the thing you did. There...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Would You Rather Be in Gaza or Syria Right Now?
Syria is a beautiful Middle Eastern holiday destination, bordering the Mediterranean sea and famed for its fantastic local delicacy, Baklava. Gaza is perhaps a destination for the more cultured among...
View ArticleHow Was Your Weekend?: Laura Taylor
Welcome to our new show How Was Your Weekend?, in which we Skype notable buddies on Sunday nights to see what they've been up to. It's basically journalism at its hard hittingest. First up: Bonde do...
View ArticleHashima Wasteland
“These days the only things that land on Hashima Island are the shits of passing seagulls.” This is how VICE described the desolate Japanese wasteland back in 2009. But seagulls (and their waste) are...
View ArticleToxic: America's Water Crisis Full Length
America's Water Crisis is our three-part series about the sad state of freshwater in America. VICE correspondent Emerson Rosenthal dons his Speedo to explore New York's poopy Hudson River as well as...
View ArticleA Pharmacopoeia of Speculative Drugs
Inventing drugs is a tradition that dates back to Homer. From the Odyssey and its lotus-eaters to the psychotropic inventions of the substance-addled Philip K. Dick; from the ambrosia and manna of...
View ArticleAfghanistan's Poppy Bumper Crop
When NATO alliance forces roll out of Afghanistan in 2014, the fogs of another war could continue billowing out from the country’s southern and western provinces. Opium poppy production is booming in...
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