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Rat Tail: Listen to Rat Tail's Debut Single "Introducing Rat Tail"
Photos by Janicza Bravo This song is from Rat Tail’s one and only album, The Motorola Pimp. His whereabouts are unknown. We do know that he seemed to be on the rise when his album was first released;...
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VICE Australia is 10: Aboriginal Headbanging
WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JONATHAN WEST At the beginning of 2008, the Australian national news reported on a small, isolated Aboriginal community deep in the Northern Territory, aka the middle of nowhere,...
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Welcome to Christmas, Florida
It was hot enough to burn the dead lovebugs on my car's hood. Farmland and pine trees were on the horizon, streets named after eight reindeer and brown wreaths hung on mailboxes. It’s not a holiday...
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Occupiers Faced Down Cops in Istanbul's Taksim Square
On the night of May 27, bulldozers and backhoes rolled into Gezi Park, a tiny island of trees and grass at the center of Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, and started ripping it apart. This was part...
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VICE Loves Magnum: Jonas Bendiksen Takes Photos in Countries That Don't Exist
NORWAY. Vesterålen. Burning barrack. Magnum is probably the most famous photo agency in the world. Even if you haven't heard of it, chances are you're familiar with its images, be they Robert Capa's...
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Pen Pals: Burying the Dead and Unloved
Image via There are times in everyone’s life when something profound occurs to us—events that should change us by teaching a valuable life lesson. I’d venture that I experienced countless lessons...
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VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Successful Alcoholics'
Under the heavy influence of alcohol I’ve done some pretty irrational and amazing shit. You get to the point where you feel invincible, but it’s usually at the cost of your night’s memory. The...
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This Week in Racism: Sending Racist Emails About Michelle Obama Is Not a Good...
Photo by Nate Miller Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. With the assistance of my friends at the @YesYoureRacist Twitter account, I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to...
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Taji's Mahal: Rolling Blunts with the OG Dutch Master and T. Kid
For this week's Mahal, alongside VICE's other regular weekend column, Weediquette, I hosted a blunt rolling contest between Baltimore rapper OG Dutch Master and New York's T. Kid. After hearing all...
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Comics: Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #89
Dear Comic Lovers, My name is Nicholas Gazin, and I love comics. Approximately once a week I write a column in which I cover comics, art, illustration, and nerd interest and review some books. My...
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Breast Cancer Survivors Find the Michelangelo of Nipple Tattoos
In the waiting room of Little Vinnie’s Tattoos, bikers and punks sit side by side with church-going grandmas and soccer moms. Customers fly in from as far away as Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Brazil, to...
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In Colombia, Lawmakers Debate Making Ecstasy Legal
Photo courtesy of Echela Cabeza Beats fill the lofty space inside the Latina Power club on a Friday night in the Chapinero neighborhood of Colombia’s capital. A kaleidoscope of images project onto a...
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The Sixth Day of Fire, Tear Gas, and Blood in Istanbul
On the sixth day of the biggest civil uprising Turkey has seen in a decade, police forces retreated from Taksim Square in central Istanbul following a 36-hour battle. Tens of thousands of protesters...
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Weediquette: Egon the Blunt Getter
Rembrandt's "The Syndics of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild," 1662, via Wikimedia Commons When I was 15, a weed mentor of mine told me over a shwag blunt that there are people in this world who refuse to...
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Tubesteak: At the World’s Gayest Party: Life Ball 2013
Photo courtesy of Life Ball There's something about the classical uniformity of Vienna (or any European city) that makes large groups of people in evening dresses seem perfectly natural. That's why...
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Do We Really Need a National Chain of Pot Stores?
Image via Jamen Shively is high on cannabis legalization. For someone who only lit up for the first time ever last year, Shively, a former Microsoft manager, sure has mastered all the heady pro-pot...
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Question of the Day: What Do You Think About Critiquing Naked Women on TV?
Blachman's male panel judges a naked woman's body. Image via Last month saw the premiere of Blachman, a new Danish TV show where a panel of men judge the bodies of naked women. That's literally the...
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Public Schoolteachers' Pensions Are Partially Funded by Private Prisons
Photo via Flickr user Rennett Stowe Public schools and prisons are becoming increasingly linked—police officers are now a constant presence in many schools, which has led to students getting hassled...
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