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'The Matrix' Is Dated and Embarrassing
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons March 31 marked the 15-year anniversary of the release of the first film in the Matrix trilogy. A few outlets marked the occasion with hagiographic looks back at...
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How to Avoid Self-Incrimination via Smartphone
This guy is having way too much fun on what is probably not his smartphone. Photo via Flickr user Steve Baker David Riley was pulled over for driving with expired license plates, in 2009, when he got...
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'Sounds of Solidarity' Is a Documentary About Haitian Dance Music
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How the Sunset Strip Went to Shit
The unveiling of a new billboard in West Hollywood. Photo by the author Bleach-blond women on stilts waving oversized fans motioned me up the stairs to the second-floor balcony above the burger joint...
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A Few Impressions: The Bling Ringers Are the Modern-Day Rebels
How we feel about fame, what people are willing to do to achieve it, and why anyone even cares are topics both fascinating and insidious. Let’s take the Bling Ring, for example. Nancy Jo Sales first...
View ArticleThee Nodes Went to the Future and Came Back Insane
Thee Nodes Went to the Future and Came Back Insane
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The Hate Boat: Could Changes to Asylum Seeker Processing Save the Budget?
Image by Ben Thomson Supporters of the government’s tough asylum seeker policy often rebut concerns about detention centres with the same comment: now that the boats have stopped, the government can...
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Gay Witches
Vintage top from Beyond Retro, John Lawrence Sullivan shorts, vintage jewelry; AllSaints shorts, Calvin Klein t-shirt, vintage jewelry Photos by Masha Mel Styling by John William Hair and Make-Up by...
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The VICE Reader: How Poor Young Black Men Run from the Police
Photo by Hill Street Studios/Matthew Palmer Alice Goffman is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (out...
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The VICE Primer to the 2014-15 Australian Budget
Yesterday the Finance Minister Mathias Cormann released a document called 'Labor's mess', a 64-page collection of press clippings (around 80 percent from their best friends at News Limited) and...
View ArticleConstant Mongrel’s New Video Features COPS and a Claustrophobic Jam Room
Constant Mongrel’s New Video Features COPS and a Claustrophobic Jam Room
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I Was Tickled on Camera for Money
I replied to a Craigslist ad saying I’d be paid $150 to let some guys film me being tickled. My current work situation was nearing an end, and rent was coming up, so naturally, as an overeducated and...
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Weediquette: T. Kid Quits Weed
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Berge Gazen Earlier this year, I visited one of the world’s failed states, which forced me to take an extended break from daily smoking for the first time in more than...
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Fake Celebrity Porn Destroys and Saves Lives
A faked photo of Jessica Alba I’m looking at an image of Jessica Alba. In it, her face appears just as it does in every red-carpet photo you’ve ever seen of her, but her body looks a little...
View ArticleProduction Music: The Songs Everyone Hears but No One Knows
Production Music: The Songs Everyone Hears but No One Knows
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VICE Premiere: Mishka's Summer 2014 Lookbook
It's been one long-ass winter—filled with crusty lips, chapped butt cheeks, and snotty noses. But it finally looks like the cold is coming to an end, which means it's time to switch up the gear and...
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Komp-Laint Dept.Even the President of the United States Must Sometimes Have...
Former president George W. Bush’s two most famous artworks are self-portraits. In one, he stands naked, reflected in the bathroom mirror from the waist up with his back to us, and in another,...
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For Horny Hypebeasts, Popping an Air Max Bubble Is the Ultimate Climax
Sneakerheads are among the most passionate collectors in the world. The price tag, limited availability, and beauty of sneakers have been linked to murders, riots, and people standing in line for...
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An Open Letter to Online Commenters
Photo via Flickr user Mike Mozart Hello, sir. I’m addressing you as such because you’re a man. I mean, I could be wrong (as I'm sure you know, I often am), but statistically speaking, you're probably...
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Thomas Roma: 'The Waters of Our Time'
Tonight, from 7 to 9 PM at the powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, photographer Thomas Roma and his son Giancarlo will talk to Susan Kismaric, curator in the photography department at the Museum of Modern...
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