Conor Lamb's NYFW Photo Blog: The Weekend: Opening Ceremony, Hood By Air,...
New York Fashion Week is a mindfuck that can't be described by words, so instead here are some pictures. Keep up with this column throughout the week for more NYFW photo updates! ISAORA Sunday,...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Even the EPA Is Using SWAT Teams Now
This is an alleged drug and human trafficking hotspot, according to the Feds. Photo via Flickr user Arthur Chapman Last month, miners who were digging for gold in the remote wilderness near Chicken,...
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We are pleased to present to you a new short story by Barry Gifford, one of the shrewdest and most authentically American authors to ever put words on a page. We have featured his writing several...
View ArticleEvery Weed Smoker's Fantasy Is About to Come True in Uruguay
A pro-weed march in Montevideo. (Photo by Santiago Mazzarovich) It seems almost guaranteed that, this November, weed will be legalized in Uruguay. The move—hailed as an "experiment" that could make a...
View ArticleConor Lamb's NYFW Photo Blog: Fashion Lips
New York Fashion Week attracts a well-groomed crowd that takes pride in all their appendages, and it shows. Throughout the week we approached people who had some nice pie holes, had Conor take their...
View ArticleThe Least Bad Option
Dr. Walter Hern, one of the four remaining doctors in the country who will terminate a pregnancy after the 24th week of pregnancy. Americans will declare war on almost anything. Like most nations in...
View ArticleInside a Guantanamo Bay Prison Tour - Molly Crabapple Returns to Guantanamo Bay
Drawings by Molly Crabapple On August 28, prisoner Nabil Hadjarab left Guantanamo Bay. Miss Holly, the three-time winner of Cupcake Wars, came to visit. Sold for a bounty during the war in...
View ArticleMatty Matheson's Hangover Cures: Kimchi Seafood Soup
For the second episode of our pretty much brand new food show, Matty Matheson's Hangover Cures, we took Matty out to Montreal to party with the rarely drunk, and incredibly talented, Antonio Park of...
View ArticleFaisal Islam Has Spent Five Years Watching Europe Collapse
Faisal Islam has been travelling around Europe to investigate the debt crisis since it started way back in 2008. As the UK's Channel 4's economics editor, he's witnessed more than his fair share of...
View ArticleThe Sketch Artist Who Helped Catch Mumbai’s Gang Rapists
A sketch of Vijay Jadhav, one of five accused rapists At 2:30 AM on August 23, Nitin Yadav’s cell phone rang. Outside his house, a Mumbai Police jeep waited under the dim glow of a streetlight next to...
View ArticleJim Mangan and the Layers of the Utah Desert
Jim Mangan is an old friend of ours whose work has graced the pages of VICE over the years. While he usually spends his time wandering the dunes of the American desert, he was recently in New York...
View ArticleWeediquette: Thirty Tons of Hash Set Ablaze? A Pothead’s Lament
 </p> <p> Have you ever stared at the tray disposal in a cafeteria, watching as...
View ArticleConor Lamb's NYFW Photo Blog: Day Six: Kaal E. Suktae, Choiboko, and Beyond...
Day six of NYFW was when everyone took a breather to recover from all the exhausting parties of the weekend. While we were still in bed with major hangovers, photographer Conor Lamb made it out to...
View ArticleHamilton's Pharmacopeia: The Ambien Effect - Trailer
In 1999 the drug Ambien was discovered to have the extremely unexpected ability of rejuvenating dead neurological tissue. This effect was first demonstrated in a South African man named Louis Viljoen,...
View ArticleWill the New iPhone Change Everything?
Apple unveiled two new iPhones yesterday. There are fingerprint scanners, a better camera, a gold-trimmed version, and a brand new affordable model. Little, if anything, will ever be the same. "Will...
View ArticleLook What Arrived in the Mail Today from Spike Jonze
By now, you've probably heard we got nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for our HBO series, VICE. The awards ceremony is on September 22, and we're all pretty...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Would You Buy the Magazine That Funds Heroin Use?
Last weekend, a new magazine appeared in Copenhagen. Illegal! is a quarterly publication about drugs, sold by drug addicts in order to fund their drug addiction. Two thirds of the total sale price...
View ArticleHow Much Will the Defense Industry Make from a Missile Strike Against Syria?
American missile ships fire a volley of (very expensive) weapons. Photo via Even as diplomats work on a last-ditch effort to get Syria to hand over its chemical weapons to international authorities,...
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