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Jimmy Binns knows boxing. As a well-off kid from the Philly suburbs, he used to get the starch knocked out of him at a gym on Passyunk Avenue until his worried dad convinced the Pennsylvania boxing...
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Happy Birthday, Blue Ivy! Blue. I don’t know what to call you. Blue? Can we just settle on Blue? Do I have to say the “Ivy” part? Your name is cute. I’m sorry. That’s not your fault, but I might as...
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"He said, 'Hey, trust me. I want to be in there, and I deserve to be in there.' I couldn't disagree with him." –Mike Shanahan after Sunday’s game where Robert Griffin III blew out his knee...
View ArticleA Mercy Killing in Kabul
The restaurant opens to the street and the jumble of Kabul’s downtown bazaar. Stray dogs move in uneven packs past vendors whose listing burlap stalls lean into a quicksand of low lying fog. Police...
View ArticleI Went to the Last Gay Catholic Mass at the UK's Church of Our Lady of the...
At LGBT Mass, the bishop wears a rainbow stole. Other than a few fauxhawks, better music, and the bishop wearing a rainbow-colored stole (the scarf thing that goes over their robes), gay Catholic mass...
View ArticleHanging Out with Chicago's Scrap Metal Collectors
The American Dream: Oscar with his truck. If you believe certain online news outlets or people who tell you things in bars, then you probably think the scrap metal collection game is the preserve of...
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View ArticleGlobal Fear League 2013
Once upon a time—so we are told—the world was a place of peace. Birds sang, rivers ran, there were caverns measureless to man (because man did not exist). Then man arrived and he brought other men...
View ArticleWhat the Hell Is Eric Schmidt Doing in North Korea?
It's unclear how he got his plane ticket or who let him through customs — cash helps on both counts — but Eric Schmidt arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday morning. He's there with a "Google delegation"...
View ArticleObama's Drone Wars, Round 2
Early this morning, eight Pakistani militants were reportedly killed in the latest unmanned aerial attack. It's another week under the watch of American hunter-killer drones. Here Stateside, it's a...
View ArticleEmployees of the Month
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View ArticleSkinema: No Warning 7: Ambushed
No Warning 7: Ambushed Dir: Aiden Riley Rating: 10 Enterbelladonna.com/ Evilangel.com Two weeks before writing this, I was in sunny Los Angeles with VICE’s global editor, Andy Capper, filming...
View ArticleBollocks to the Hippocratic Oath: Things I Have Fished Out of People's Butts
Disclaimer: Some of you might remember this column from a few years back when we still lived at Viceland. Tragically, when we moved to VICE.com it disappeared, so now we've dug it up. Enjoy. Hey, you...
View ArticleTossing and Turning in Space
Houston, we have a sleep disorder. That's essentially the greatest issue that faced astronauts who volunteered for a 17-month space simulation called the Mars500 project. It's not exploding oxygen...
View ArticleHow Was Your Weekend?: Ana Rezende
What's a weekend like for Ana from Brazilian fun-core outfit CSS? We called her up on a Sunday to find out.
View ArticleSamsung GALAXY Camera "Life's A Photo": Is Sydney the Most Photogenic City?
Vote for your city: http://samsungcamera.tumblr.com Samsung gave the new GALAXY Camera to 32 photographers to prove that their city is the most photogenic in the world. In part 7, Samsung meets Lee...
View ArticleMotherboard: Libya in Vitro
After Libya's revolution in 2011, tens of thousands of citizens wounded in bloody guerilla battles needed good hospitals and doctors the war-torn country didn't have. As a quick fix, the interim...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll - SSRI Sex, Edibles, and DRGN King
SEX – SEX AND SSRIS “Where do you see yourself in five years?” my psychiatrist asked me, as I sat across from him in his Washington Square Park office, likely decorated by his wife. Or perhaps he's...
View ArticleShorties: All Around Losing - How to Be a Man
All Around Losing host Harry Cheadle normally evades conflict by running away or nervously laughing, but now it's time to face his fears and become a man. First, he endures a physically draining work...
View ArticleI Was Raped—and the Police Told Me I Made It Up
Photo of Sara Reedy, circa 2012. If you think India is the only place where cops treat rape victims like shit, think again. At age 19, Sara Reedy was working as a cashier in a gas station in the...
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