How Was Your Weekend?: Hannah Brooks
It’s time to investigate another pretty thing’s weekend. This time it’s Hanna Brooks. Hanna’s weekend involved cat sitting. It was way better than it sounds
View ArticleNew York Is a Paradise
As soon as this set of pictures arrived in my inbox, I asked photographer Atisha Paulson for a couple of sentences that would in his mind describe New York City and his work. Here's what he came back...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Los Angeles Part 3
The Techniques have settled down since the old days of the infamous LA car club wars. Now they're family men, riding low with their kids sitting shotgun instead of a shotgun sitting shotgun. In this...
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Newtown, Mental Health, and the Dangers of Oversimplifying Gun Control
We may never know what was wrong with Adam Lanza. And something was definitely wrong for him to brutally murder 20 children and eight adults, including his mother and himself. We know that Lanza had a...
View ArticleYoung Americans: Part 4: The Economy
Real estate, jobs, college debt -- the U.S. economy in 2012 had a major impact in just about everybody's lives this year.
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America's Gun Lust Is Only Just Beginning
In the United States, at least, it is hard to remember a year that saw more unspeakable and tragic death at the opposite end of a lunatic's barrel than this one. I'm not going to recount these...
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Remembering "Dimebag" Darrell Because No One Else Seems To
Why doesn't anyone give a shit about Pantera anymore? Last Friday, I attended an organized tribute/toast to my favorite (dead) guitarist, "Dimebag" Darrell. Though the venue billed the event as...
View ArticleArt Talk: Tristan Eaton
VICE and the creators of Django Unchained selected three of America's most exciting up-and-coming artists to hand craft a series of limited edition Creative Recreation sneakers inspired by the film....
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Have Animals Declared War On Us?
For millennia, humans have been wreaking havoc on animals by doing things like hunting them for sport, destroying their habitats to make ourselves more comfortable, and skinning their carcasses so...
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Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis: The Acceptable Cost of the Right...
So here’s the argument in favor of No Gun Controls that was offered to me on Friday afternoon. Someone actually said to me, with their bare face hanging out, that “one good bullet” would have taken...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Los Angeles Part 2
Eddie links with LA food truck king Roy Choi in East LA to eat corn tortilla tacos and talk about how they've chosen to live the food life.
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We Saw This: Lust for Youth
Hannes Norrvide’s gloomy dance project, Lust for Youth played their first US show last week at the place where almost every dark electro-driven act plays their first US show, everyone’s favorite...
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The White Boy Posse: Canada's Violent Neo-Nazi Gang
A photo from the bust that did not cripple the White Boy Posse whatsoever. On September 12 of this year, a mother of four named Lorry Ann Santos opened her door to find three members of a Western...
View ArticleVICE Meets: Sue Johanson - Part 1
In part one of our three-parter with Sue Johanson of Sunday Night Sex Show fame, Kara Crabb chats with Sue about her origins as a nurse, being a pioneer of sexual education in a time when abortion was...
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My Sunday with The Disintegration Loops and the NFL
I am a member of a very specific cross-cultural intersection—I’m into both professional football and William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops. If you’re not familiar with The Disintegration Loops,...
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Best of the Best of 2012: Sound Opinions
Full disclosure: a majority of the negative feelings I have about Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis are fueled by jealousy. Who wouldn’t want a nice cushy gig talking about music for a living, relying on a...
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The Right to Die Is the Right to Live
Wolf as he sees himself going out in the world. One month before his 18th birthday, my son Wolf was thrilled to receive invitations from galleries in Melbourne and New York City to exhibit his...
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Kill the Engine: Remember Zulu's?
Dear regular readers of Kill the Engine, welcome to the third trip to C-Fan ditch that I've squeezed a column out of. Dear irregular readers of Kill the Engine, welcome to my favorite ditch. You might...
View ArticleVICE News: Open Season in the Holy Land - Part 1
Over Thanksgiving, Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip, killing Hamas’ second-in-command, Ahmed Jabari. In retaliation, Hamas began firing rockets that were some of the first missiles to hit...
View ArticleThese New South Whales Fight And Tape Their Nipples
These New South Whales are a Sydney band made up of androgynous bros that cover their nipples with tape at all occasions. Despite the their girlish figures and brittle fists, they will whale you...
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