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Weediquette: Life's Weed Bonuses
Image via Flickr user Alex Weimer. In my weeded out life, I try to focus on the lucky little bonuses the universe throws my way. Many of these joys are a direct result of my struggling memory—a...
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Animal Activists Are Trying to Save the World's Fish from the Mafia
The Black Fish’s founder Wietse van der Werf. Photo by Chris Grodotzki. On a warm night in July 2012, off the island of Ugljan in the Croatian Adriatic, two activists slipped into the water near a...
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Anti-Coup Protesters Arrested in Cairo
Scuffles and gunshots rang out in Ramses Square on Saturday as police arrested Muslim Brotherhood members at the al Fatah mosque in central Cairo. Police stormed the mosque after claiming that...
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The Quaking Mess
Image via Flickr user another.point.in.time This week, I lost a childhood friend to drugs and alcohol. He was only 24 years old. My friend was a brilliant musician and talented artist, but he was...
View ArticleShorties: Korean Poo Wine
"Ttongsul" is a Korean rice wine mixed with the fermented turd of a human child. It has an alcoholic content of around 9 percent. Little is known about the origins of what is surely one of the world's...
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Are American Drones Al Qaeda's Strongest Weapon in Yemen?
Yemeni Soldiers. Image via Things are getting really messy in Yemen at the moment. With soldiers being murdered in their sleep and embassies closing en masse in fear of an imminent wave of attacks and...
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This Is My Driver's License
Photos by Valerie Phillips and Arvida Byström Retouching by Ben Pickett at Touch Digital Special thanks to Lark All images taken from Valerie Phillips's forthcoming zine This is My Drivers License...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Stop Tasering Us, Police Bros
Image via Flickr user Rébus Early in the morning of August 6, Miami Beach police fired a Taser burst into the chest of Israel Hernandez, an 18-year-old artist and skater who was running from a half...
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Translating the Tweets of Brainstorming Al Qaeda Fans
Original Osama bin Laden photo via Last week, it was brought to a lot of people's attention that al Qaeda were active on Twitter. This was slightly less surprising than it sounds. At a grassroots...
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Romanian Notes
Thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. —William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer * In Bucharest, the psychological damage inflicted on...
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Pen Pals: Phone Calls from Jail Are Criminally Expensive
Photo via Flickr user KOMUNews Sometimes phones are a pain in the dick even in the real world. I remember when cell phones turned into a necessity and you could no longer fall off the grid every day...
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Is Egypt Doomed to a Civil War?
Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy It's been just over a year since Egyptians, having thrown off the rule of Hosni Mubarak, voted in the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi as their first-ever democratically...
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Toronto Policeman James Forcillo Will Face Second-Degree Murder Charges
A photo from last week's Sammy Yatim protest. By Michael Toledano for VICE Nearly a month ago, a Toronto Police officer named James Forcillo shot 18-year-old Sammy Yatim nine times (six bullets were...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Reggie Watts Wants to Make You Uncomfortable
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE...
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The Godfather of Mexican Drug Trafficking Has Disappeared
On Friday, August 9, at the unseemly hour of two o'clock in the morning, the main gate of Puente Grande prison opened, and a godfather in the Mexican narcotics trade walked out into the darkness a...
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What Happens When Hundreds of People Retweet Child Porn?
Slane Castle in Ireland, site of the concert in question. Via Wiki Commons. What do you do when hundreds, if not thousands, of people are sharing what technically amounts to child porn on social...
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The Magician's Retreat
Illustrations By: Cahill Wessel Montreal-based writer and former VICE editor Adam Leith Gollner is one of those seemingly regular Joes who continually finds himself in strange, almost unbelievable...
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