Profiles by VICE: My Homie Sells Homies
In 1996 Bradley Ellison, a.k.a. Sugarman, started Sugar Daddies vending company in Staten Island. He placed thousands of machines throughout New York City in pizza parlors, supermarkets, and corner...
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Syria Is Obama's Rwanda
Qusai on the streets of Moadamiya, which has been attacked nearly daily by the regime by shelling and aircraft bombings Twenty-seven-year-old Qusai Zakarya woke up at about 4:30 AM on August 21, 2013....
View ArticleTurning Nail Polish Spills Into Psychedelic, Exploding Forms
Turning Nail Polish Spills Into Psychedelic, Exploding Forms
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New York Progressive Party Kisses Andrew Cuomo's Ring
Andrew Cuomo got his way in the end. Photo via Flickr user Diana Robinson Going into this past weekend, when the labor-backed Working Families Party (WFP) held its convention to select candidates for...
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Inside the Crumbling Cabarets of Cairo
The baladi bars are the dive bars of Cairo. They were once glamorous cabaret clubs; now they're run-down and seedy and far from bustling. Even so, they are the only place you can drink a beer outside...
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Bad Cop Blotter: The Dangers of Calling the Police on the Mentally Ill
Helmet-cam footage of Albuquerque, New Mexico, police confronting a mentally ill homeless man. The incident ended when the cops shot the man in the back and killed him. Screenshot via this YouTube...
View ArticleWackaging Is Your Food’s Attempt at Hitting on You
Wackaging Is Your Food’s Attempt at Hitting on You
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Cari Vander Yacht Will Animate the Old Family Photos in Your Closet
The Amsterdam-based artist takes fifty-year-old photographs found in thrift shops in her Portland hometown and animates them into ridiculous GIFs. From a woman who rapidly swaps faces with her dog,...
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Coming on Camera: Beautiful Agony's Orgasmic Porn
Still from Kamee's second masturbation video. All images and video courtesy of Beautiful Agony Hundreds of people around the world have seen Kamee* come. They’ve watched her lie down on her stomach...
View ArticleJustin Bieber, We Don't Accept Your Apology
Justin Bieber, We Don't Accept Your Apology
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I Asked the Discoverer of a New Fish Why Its Anus Is on Its Head
Photo courtesy of Prosanta Chakrabarty The other day, when Ben Richmond over at Motherboard filed a story on a new kind of cave fish with its anus just behind its head, I had to know more. Coverage...
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A Visit to the Turkish Clinic Where Students Are Fitting Syrians with New Legs
Al Masri poses with Saad and the technician who made his leg outside the clinic. All photos via the author. Muhammad Hamidu was 15 years old when a bomb dropped through his roof near Idlib, a city in...
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On Patrol with North London's Orthodox Jewish Crime Fighters
Shomrim members at the scene of a hit and run in Stamford Hill, North London It’s a wet Tuesday night in Stamford Hill and I’m on an impromptu stakeout with two Orthodox Jewish men wearing...
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Cowboy Capitalists
Philippe Heilberg, the white guy, with soldiers loyal to the warlord General Paulino Matip Nhial. Photo by Jenn Warren Entrepreneurs tried to invest in Sudan but quickly handed over their pipe dreams...
View ArticleFacebook Takes Down Assad's Syrian Election Ads
Facebook Takes Down Assad's Syrian Election Ads
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Body of an American: The Russian Immigrant Who Conquered Porn
Photo by Matthew Leifheit If you believe the conventional wisdom about the porn industry—that it’s falling apart, that there’s no money in it, that the studios that once made high-quality films are...
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Will the Entire Porn Industry Be Forced to Move to Nevada?
Another wave of porn regulation is here: On May 27, Assembly Bill 1576, a statewide expansion of Measure B, passed the California Assembly. Los Angeles County voters passed Measure B back in 2012,...
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Could Pooping in a Box Save the Developing World?
A Loveable Loo. Photo via Flickr user Max Baars Joe Jenkins has been saving his shit for 37 years. The 61-year-old thinks that to do otherwise—to flush the toilet after you’ve finished defecating into...
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Things Men Have Said to My Face After Seeing My Naked Body
The author Since the dawn of time, with the exception of maybe a few weeks there at the beginning, nakedness and shame have gone together like snakes and planes. Ear hair and bassists. Milk and...
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