The EDL Spent Saturday Bleeding All Over Birmingham, England
Photos by Lee Harper You might have thought that the English Defence League had already sufficiently exploited Lee Rigby's murder for their own Islamophobic ends. But Tommy Robinson and his merry band...
View ArticleThe Hi-Tech Guide to This Super-Gross Heat Wave
Image: Flickr Today, I arrived at the office for the fourth day in a row covered in a thin film of salty body moisture, huffing like I'd just completed a challenge on a reality show set in a jungle....
View ArticleMy Life Online: Space Barbie
The world knows Valeria Lukyanova as the girl who turned herself into a real-life Barbie doll. Controversy has surrounded her every move since her computer-perfect visage went viral last year....
View ArticleAfghanistan's Opium Plague
The Afghan Drug Problem by the Numbers Afghanistan’s drug story begins with a well-worn fact: the country is the world’s largest producer of poppy opium, the raw material from which heroin is made....
View ArticleI Spent an Entire Day On the Beijing Subway
Dongzhimen Station at morning peak. If Beijing's subway feeds the city's beating heart, then Line 2 is its circulatory system. Its looped route traces the path once taken by the ancient city walls,...
View ArticleComics: Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #93
Hello Everybody! In this column, I address such topics as comics, illustration, fine art, zines, and things of interest to people who like nerd stuff. I have two large milestones that are looming over...
View Article'Out in the Dark' Explores the Gay Relationship Between an Israeli and a...
Michael Mayer's first feature-length movie has been dubbed the "Brokeback Mountain of Israeli film." Which isn't too inaccurate of a comparison, in that it's about two men having a romantic, sexual...
View ArticleSee and Listen to R. Kelly's 38-Song 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival Setlist
See and Listen to R. Kelly's 38-Song 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival Setlist
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Routine Raid Terror
A training exercise conducted by the National Guard for US Marshals in Georgia. Photo via the Georgia National Guard's Flickr On Wednesday, a 59-year-old nurse named Louise Goldsberry was in her...
View ArticleNew York State of Mind: American Underachievers in London
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
View ArticleCalifornia Has Its Own Version of Stand Your Ground
Photos by Dave Schilling The aftermath of the Zimmerman verdict has been a stew; a goulash of slow-cooked racial tension that seems to have hit a boiling point. While this crock pot of civil unrest...
View ArticleBears and Booty Shorts at Lovebox Festival
Last weekend was Lovebox festival in East London's Victoria Park. It was a crazy hot. Noisey had their own tent on Friday, which got everything off to the best possible start a festival could want...
View ArticleU-God of the Wu-Tang Clan Is Finally Speaking His Piece
The author with U-God outside of the VICE offices. U-God is a tried-and-true veteran of the rap game. Unlike quasi-members Redman and Cappadonna, U-God is one of the original nine brothers of the...
View ArticleThe Brother of a Turkish Protester Murdered by the Police Speaks Out
Photo by Dogu Eroglu, Stories of Violence from Turkey On June 1, the second day of Turkey's nationwide protests that began in Istanbul's Gezi Park, Ethem Sarisülük, a laborer and human-rights...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: David Cameron's War On Internet Porn Lacks a Smoking Gun
Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader in a spanking scene from The Secretary. A surprisingly large amount of porn involves death, destruction, or violence—but then so does a lot of film. Vore fetishists...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Nicolas Winding Refn on 'Only God Forgives' and the...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE...
View ArticleThe Sad State of America’s Aging Sisters
Illustrations by Michael Shaeffer Mass at the Deathburg is a peculiar thing to watch. Six aged sisters sit in green pastel chairs that look like patio furniture that should be on a retiree’s porch in...
View ArticleVICE News: Egypt After Morsi with Gigi Ibrahim
On June 30, Egypt erupted in civil protests in opposition to President Mohammed Morsi and his aggressive consolidation of power. The military threw its weight behind the grass-roots movement,...
View ArticlePhotographing San Francisco Punk with Ruby Ray
When the first wave of punk hit the Bay Area, it signalled that the tired reign of the long-haried, hippie counterculture was coming to an end; in it's place were young, angry, shorn kids shouting...
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