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Neither Big nor Easy: A Pilgrimage to Gypsy Lou Webb, New Orleans’s Patron...
Gypsy Lou Webb holds a copy of the first issue of The Outsider, which featured her on the cover. One of the brightest flags of late-period beat literature got planted in New Orleans in the early 1960s...
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The Site of Hitler’s Suicide Is Now a Playground
This slide sits atop the site of Hitler's cremation. By the afternoon of his suicide, Adolf Hitler hadn’t seen the sun in ten days. He had been living in a concrete bunker 28 feet below the ruins of...
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Movie Barn: Where Are All the Films About Economic Apocalypse?
This being the debut of my new film column, it seems apt to take stock of the decade in progress. Is there a cinema of the 2010s yet? This time 30 years ago, the cinema of the 80s—flying cars and neon...
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Buttwater Is a Legendary Party Trick
For the past few weeks, I’ve been touring around doing standup comedy, opening for a band called KEN Mode, and we recently found ourselves in Boston with nothing to do. It was a Monday, and some guy...
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Music Reviews
A$AP FERG Trap Lord Self-released A$AP Ferg used to be a fashion student. Then he dropped out of shirt-and-pants school to become a rap man who sounds like a gigantic, adorable bear. It’s usually a...
View ArticleWhy the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free, 50 Years Later
Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free, 50 Years Later
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The Permutating Brain of Stephen Dixon
Stephen Dixon, self-portrait Stephen Dixon has published at least 27 books of fiction. There may be more—it always seems there are deeper crevices to Dixon’s body of work that I’ve somehow overlooked...
View ArticleThe Syrian Electronic Army Talks About Tuesday’s Hacks
Hours after US officials declared that the United States may launch missile strikes against the Syrian government, pro-Assad hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army hijacked the domain name...
View ArticleDon't Kid Yourself: Macklemore's Edgy Politics Are Not Edgy
Don't Kid Yourself: Macklemore's Edgy Politics Are Not Edgy
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The Trickle-Down Economics of Nicaragua’s Drug Trade
A mansion owned by Ted Hayman, one of the most notorious kingpins in Bluefields, Nicaragua. After his arrest last year, some people took to the streets to protest. Some names in this story have been...
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The Gibraltar Standoff Is About More Than Fishing and Cigarettes
The Gibraltarian border. All photos by Alexis Yamagata A lot has changed for Gibraltar in the past month. The slab of land at Spain's southern tip has gone from being an expat theme park famous for...
View ArticleVICE Eats: VICE Eats - Action Bronson - Part 2
Please enable Javascript to watch this video We followed the multi-talented Action Bronson from the kitchen to the stage during this year's Bushwick Block Party. Action headlined the party and...
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The VICE Reader: Russian Roller-Coaster
All images by Olivia Hinds Tanya Paperny is a writer, translator, and professor in Washington, DC. Her essays and translations have appeared in the Millions, Bitch, HEEB, the Literary Review, the...
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On Patrol with Ontario's Suburban Batman
All photos by Jeff Campagna My plan was to write at least 500 words about how difficult it was to track down the Brampton Batman, the local legend that's been haunting the streets of this Ontarian...
View ArticleA Sneak Peek of Errol Morris's New Documentary on Donald Rumsfeld
Please enable Javascript to watch this video In The Unknown Known, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the larger-than-life figure who...
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Stoya on HIV Transmission in Pornography
The human immunodeficiency virus, up close. Via NIAID Last year, when the AIDS Healthcare Federation (AHF) poked their heads into pornography and started the initial push for Measure B, a rarely...
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The Feds Will Let the States Legalize Pot… Maybe
This is what the world will be like if weed is ever unambiguously legalized in all 50 states. Photo via Flickr user mardi grass 2011 Ever since Colorado and Washington voted last November to legalize...
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The Prepubescent Spider-Hunters of Cambodia
Photo by George Nickels In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge committed one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, killing an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians (21 percent of the country’s population)...
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This Man Believes All News Events Are Staged By Actors
HOLY SHIT, right? Wake up, sheeple! Have you ever played that road trip–friendly game where you try to decide which actor would play a famous person in a hypothetical Hollywood biopic? For example, if...
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