Photographing the Grim Reality of Protest and Poverty in Athens
Enri Canaj is an Albanian photojournalist who migrated with his family to Athens when he was 11 years old. He’s grown up in and around adversity for most of his life and over the last couple years has...
View ArticleVICE Shorts: I'm Short Not Stupid Presents: 'Aningaaq'
Rescue has always been and forever will be a popular story trope, especially in Hollywood. You know when the clock’s ticking down: 3, 2, 1... and Bruce Willis swings in with a “Yippee ki yay mother...
View ArticleNativeDanger Could Save Your Life
Photos by Erica Euse For the past three years, Skyler Javier has been riding in the back of ambulances and fire trucks, tending to the injuries and putting out the fires of distressed Washingtonians....
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Elena Maria Garcia Is Sick of People Asking if She Speaks Mexican
Elena Maria Garcia in 1970s South Florida. Image courtesy of Elena For this week's Mahal, I interviewed the Cuban American comedian Elena Maria Garcia about her new one man show, Do You Speak Mexican?...
View ArticleThe Canadian Forces Still Can't Buy Decent Combat Boots
Canadian soldiers with crappy boots. Image via WikiCommons While Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government are known for appearing in front of “Support Our Troops” signs and inflating...
View ArticleInto the Weird: Katie Manzella Is Too Real for Cable Television
Images courtesy of Katie Manzella About a year ago, I was working on the production team of a late-night talk show pilot when I overheard one of the guests make a vulgar joke. “I make jokes about...
View ArticleCovenant Eyes Software Blocks Unholy Web Content
In high school, I tried to bypass my school’s security blocks with proxies I found online. My attempts never worked—the filter was way too stringent, and the system was smart enough to catch on as...
View ArticleWeediquette: T. Kid the Rapper
Recently, it occurred to me that Weediquette isn’t my first venture into cannabis-related writing. In college, I was an aspiring rapper who filled notebook after notebook with rhymes about smoking...
View ArticleInside Schilling: Charles Manson, the Ultimate Bachelor, Might Finally Be...
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons After a torrid six-year courtship, Charles Manson is finally making an honest woman out of his 25-year-old girlfriend, Star. Like me, you all probably thought it...
View ArticleWhat the Hell Is Wrong with the Cover of the New Black Flag Album?
What the Hell Is Wrong with the Cover of the New Black Flag Album?
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Max Headroom Television Hack
The Mystery of the Max Headroom Television Hack
View ArticleA Pregnant Woman Hit Her Stomach with a Hammer to Prove That Her Baby Was Tough
It's like a bad Chuck Norris joke come to life, but a 24-year-old mother in England was filmed hitting her pregnant belly with a hammer to prove that her unborn son was “hard." Heather Thorpe was...
View ArticleItaly’s Miraculous New Tabloid
Image courtesy of Miracoli Italy’s former prime minister is a sex criminal, 42 percent of its young people are unemployed, and the country is currently going through its longest recession in 60 years....
View ArticleEast Germany's Secret Police Used to Spy On Skateboarders
For whatever reason the public perception of skateboarding seems to have changed over the last decade. Skaters on TV aren't obnoxious, glue-huffing wasters any more; they're admirable young men...
View ArticleMidnight Sabotage with Transylvania's Anti-Fracking Activists
They even make this pun in Romania. “Do you think they're about to have sex?” one of the activists whispers. I'm in Transylvania, in central Romania, crouched in the bushes with a bunch of hardcore...
View Article'Satanic Lesbian Rapists' Turn Out to be Nice, Innocent Ladies
Photograph courtesy of Deborah Esquenazi Last Monday, a group of San Antonio women were released from prison, their sentences vacated, after serving fourteen years for heinous sex crimes. Way back in...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Travel: North Korean Motorcycle Diaries - Trailer
For the past decade, New Zealanders Joanne and Gareth Morgan have been living the semiretired lifestyle of their dreams, traveling around the world on motorcycles alongside a few of their closest...
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