VICE News: Last Stop, Tel Aviv
Last Stop, Tel Aviv is the story of the 60,000 asylum seekers living in Israel. Escaping dictatorships and indefinite military conscription, Africans flee their homelands in the hope of a better life,...
View ArticleOscar Santos Is All About the Surface
When I asked San Francisco-based photographer Oscar Santos for a few words to describe his work, he said: "It always fucks with my mind when people start to talk about photography in classical terms...
View ArticleGood Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis: An Idiot's Guide to Time
OK, so this one's going to be a bit odd, but something came up in physics news this week that amuses the hell out of me, so you're just going to have to put up with this. Time's arrow. A perfectly...
View ArticleThe Man Who Was There
September 30, 2012: Fighters with the jihadist Tawhid brigade in the midst of a battle with Syrian Army troops inside Aleppo’s hotly contested al-Arkoub neighborhood. VICE reached out to photographer...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Taiwan Part 3
The family edition of Fresh Off the Boat brings you father-son hang time with Eddie and his dad in Taipei. The Huang men catch up over the most meticulously crafted dumplings in the world and pay a...
View ArticleRocker Pigs: On Fucking the Band
The instrument a man plays dictates how he fucks. It's a fact. THE DRUMMER When trying to start a band, a great drummer is really hard to find. Because of this, most drummers know they are greatly...
View ArticleMore Eddy: David Frum Is (Still Just) a Canadian Conservative
I have been curious about David Frum since I realized he was an actual Frum. I moved to the States from Canada in 1996, so 2000 was my first proper American election cycle and that’s when I first...
View ArticleGunplay Doesn't Fear the Pine Box or Prison
The first time I caught wind of Gunplay was back in 2010. I was at a house party and a drunk friend of mine was raving about the manic Florida rapper with the wild dreaded mane—not for his deft and...
View ArticleDogmageddon: Balls and Chains
As David Roth pointed out in his brilliant takedown of Chris Berman's pre-election interview nonsense: “Sports radio sounds like political talk radio, and political talk radio sounds like sports...
View ArticleWide World of Balls: Even That Jerky Fireman Has Quit Cheering for the Jets
How's our old friend sports doing? Well, baseball has wrapped up, basketball is in its early-season dregs, and hockey (still) hasn't started yet. Luckily there was lots of awesome football and college...
View ArticleReasons Why Los Angeles Is the Worst Place Ever
I recently moved from London to Los Angeles. Despite the fact that LA is the undisputed worst place in the entire world, I've been trying super hard to like it. Mainly because I like being that guy...
View ArticleWe Saw This: R. Kelly
If using the miracle of science you were somehow able to transform what I truthfully know about R. Kelly into urine, it would not even cause a solitary urinal cake to turn soggy. Basically all I'm...
View ArticleToronto Just Fired the Greatest Mayor of All Time
Rob Ford at his victory party in 2010, after being elected mayor. Toronto has had a very exciting 24 hours. Last night, our Canadian football team won the Grey Cup. This morning, we fired our 64th...
View ArticleYou’re a Pussy if You Think There’s a War on Men
For some men, women—especially feminists—are terrifying. Not in the normal oh-my-God-I-can’t-ask-her-out-what-if-she-says-no way that middle schoolers and characters on Friends experience, but...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: How Would You Blow $2.2 Billion and Keep It a Secret?
Kweku Adoboli—that guy above—was jailed last week for somehow managing to lose $2.2 billion of UBS's money in fraudulent deals, which is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. How anyone could lose...
View ArticleShivering on in Isolation
Researchers looking at ice core samples from Lake Vida—a salty, mostly frozen lake in Antarctica—have discovered microbial life that was isolated for “on the order of several hundred to a few thousand...
View ArticleHere's Looking at You, Consumer
The next time you gaze through the storefront window at that fashionably clad mannequin, know that the mannequin might be staring back. Just in time for the holiday season, a special crop of...
View ArticleTattoo Age: Thom deVita Part 2
In the second part of the Thom deVita Tattoo Age series we focus on the touching and often hilarious relationship Thom has with Nick Bubash. Thom and Nick met in the early 1970s, and soon after Thom...
View ArticleOur Syria Correspondent Was Interviewed by Wolf Blitzer Tonight
Photo by Robert King/Polaris Earlier tonight on CNN Robert King, the apparently bulletproof ghost who wrote the sprawling 20-page piece on Syria for this month's issue, discussed the humanitarian...
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