Kill the Engine: My Ten Favorite Things in the Local Skate Shop
I love hanging out in skate shops looking at all the current offerings being pumped out by the skateboarding industry. The stickers, the keychains, the socks, the air-fresheners, the t-shirts, the...
View ArticleMy Roommate Is a Male Escort, and It's Whatever
About a year or so ago I answered a Craigslist ad looking for a roommate and came across a really nice guy with an amazing room open in his apartment. We hit it off and he seemed genuinely nice. After...
View ArticleBab al-Shams: The Short Life of a Palestinian Settlement
Raw footage of the IDF evicting settlers from Bab al-Shams. On Friday morning, a small group of Palestinians drove up into the hills between the Israeli capital Jerusalem and the large Jewish...
View ArticlePost Show Pre-Fun with Ana Briseno from Magic Mouth
Ana Briseno is the drummer for Portland's Magic Mouth, and we think she is the coolest. Superstar photographer Megan Holmes took some shots of her post-show and pre-party for your pleasure and...
View ArticleLife’s Hard when you’re a Convicted Paedophile
In the spectrum of criminality, nothing disgusts and enrages like paedophilia. Peter Gibson discovered this in 2007 when his niece accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1979, back when she was...
View ArticleHow Was Your Weekend?: Ladonnis Decurtis Crump
On the weekend before we spoke to him, Atlanta rapper Donnis went over to Miami for a show. Here's what he said about it.
View ArticleSamsung GALAXY Camera "Life's A Photo": Is San Francisco the Most Photogenic...
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 the final part of the...
View ArticleI Hate That I Love 'Far Cry 3'
I’m not a fan of the first-person shooter. That wasn’t always the case. A short time after the death of the LAN party, back in the early days of Xbox Live, I was promised connection--that my Xbox and...
View ArticleSt. Vincent Isn't Interested In A Vacation
Annie Clark, the doe-eyed multi-instrumentalist known as St. Vincent can currently be found blasting horn sections with David Byrne. We dialled through to Annie’s couch with the intention to ask her...
View ArticlePhotographer Bobby Doherty Is Doing Pretty Well for a Former VICE Intern
Bobby Doherty used to be one of our interns, which means we forced him do terrible things like photograph VICE's associate editor Harry Cheadle in his underwear. Bobby, we're sorry. He has since...
View ArticleAre Anti-Gun Murder Squads Killing Pro-Gun Campaigners?
Keith Ratliff. On January 3, the producer of popular gun-loving YouTube channel "FPS Russia" was found dead in Georgia at his business. Keith Ratliff, 32, was discovered with a single bullet in the...
View ArticleJohn Kilar's Photos Will Get You Thrown in Jail
Ever since a friend of mine moved to Los Angeles, I've been begging him to smuggle me over there. It seems like the perfect compromise for a Mediterranean person living in London: The weather is good,...
View ArticleNoisey: Black Lips Tour the Middle East
Black Lips just finished a trailblazing tour of the Middle East that included shows in Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and Cyprus. Noisey sent a camera crew to document the band's international...
View Article'Tatler''s In-House Dachshund Was Murdered by a Door Yesterday
It is with a heavy heart that I share with you reports that Alan—Tatler’s in-house dachshund, and a favorite with London’s society high-rollers—was killed in the revolving doors of Vogue House early...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Y La Bamba's "Michoacan" Video
Y La Bamba is emotional and beautiful and I will premiere everything they send me, no questions asked. I bet this entire band just walks around smelling like sea breeze and pine needles 24 hours a...
View ArticleIs SpongeBob SquarePants the New Che Guevara?
On a Friday afternoon this past June, a new wave of pro-democracy demonstrations roiled downtown Cairo. Protestors were angry that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmad Shafiq,...
View ArticlePen Pals: God Behind Bars
A scan of a card handed out to inmates in New York prisons. I’m not going to pretend that I understand how religion in jail works, ‘cause I really never attended any services, at least I haven't in...
View ArticleScience Fiction Is Sapping My Will to Live
So not too long ago I decided to get really into science fiction books because I hate leaving the house because there’s people out there, and they scare me, and it’s January in Chicago where I live. I...
View ArticleMy Days of Bibliomancy with Virgil's 'Aeneid'
I first read about sortes virgilianae in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, Antifragile. He described the heuristic technique and said it was a little trick he used when faced with a big business decision....
View ArticleThe 'Shoplifting from American Apparel' Movie Is a Steaming Pile of Crap
Tao Lin proves he actually sat through this movie. The Shoplifting from American Apparel movie is the cinematographic equivalent of the Doritos Loco Taco—a total lack of substance covered up with...
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