Shorties: MEGWIN Vs. VICE
MEGWIN is an online superstar in Japan. He began uploading comedy videos onto his YouTube channel in the mid-2000s, and since then, he's become a digital sensation. Recently, VICE Japan caught up with...
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Jerry Stahl Is Not the Father of a Mutant Child
Image courtesy of Jerry Stahl Happy may be one of the words in the title of Jerry Stahl’s new novel, Happy Mutant Baby Pills, but no one would ever describe the author of nine books as being happy...
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Saunas Are Finland's Best Diplomatic Weapon
Sanna Kangasharju poses at the Sauna Society in Washington DC. Photo courtesy of the Embassy of Finland in Washington DC Finland loves saunas. Luckily for me, my mom’s best friend married a Finn and I...
View ArticleThe Hell Scene of Fukushima Scare Blogs Beckons
The Hell Scene of Fukushima Scare Blogs Beckons
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All Bad News Considered: Police Shot a Black Friday Shoplifter and New J.D....
Image via Black Friday is my favorite holiday tradition. After stuffing my face with turkey, globs of mashed potatoes, and enough gravy to drown a small rabbit, I can’t think of anything better than...
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Weediquette: The Best Blazing Albums Ever
Before I smoked weed, I assumed marijuana was an intoxicant. Experience quickly corrected my assumption, revealing weed's role as a creative tool. Instead of inebriating me, smoking sparked my...
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Ritchie Yorke On Rock and Roll
Ritchie Yorke with John Lennon at the King Eddie hotel in Toronto discussing the location for John and Yoko's second bed-in for peace which ultimately took place in Montreal, May 1969. As a...
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Inside Schilling: Some of the Worst Paul Walker Death Tweets
Photo via Flickr user Tim Evanson When a celebrity dies, the online community divides into two distinct camps: the oversharing, sincere mourners and the blatantly insensitive amateur comedians. The...
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The Fresh Prince of Chiraq
All photos by Danny Manhattan. It’s late August, at some ungodly early-morning hour. We’re at Studio 11 in downtown Chicago, talking to a Def Jam A&R guy named Sickamore. He is calmly overseeing...
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Thailand's Anti-Government Protests Turned Deadly This Weekend
After months of relatively peaceful demonstrations and a week of massive anti-government rallies, protests in Bangkok have turned violent. Though nobody in Thailand seems particularly surprised, it’s...
View ArticleThe Space Shuttle Isn't Racist, It's a Work of Art
The Space Shuttle Isn't Racist, It's a Work of Art
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Hundreds of Thousands of Protesters Are Trying to Take Over Kiev
Photos by Konstantin Chernichkin This weekend, the street protests that have been taking place in Kiev for weeks arrived at a dramatic crux, as peaceful public dissent escalated into full-on violence....
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The Exploited Laborers of the Liberal Media
Photo courtesy of Intern Labor Rights Editor’s note: For years, VICE used part-time unpaid interns—a practice that we recently halted. We currently pay interns $10 an hour and limit them to 20 hours a...
View ArticleDetroit Is a Paradise
Detroit, along with the country's prison system, is one of the places where America puts everything it wants to hide—poverty, racism, violence. The city is one of the most racially segregated in the...
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Syrian Refugees Turn to Europe—and Human Smugglers
Port of Izmir, Turkey, photo via Flickr “I’m not a smuggler,” a man who called himself Abu Khaled said through a crackly speakerphone, “but I can take you to Europe, for a price.” I sat silently next...
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Sothern Exposure: On Decks and Doors
It’s 1982 and I’ve got a gig on a Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Ranger. I climb aboard at Coronado Island across the San Diego Bay and get off seven days later in Honolulu, Hawaii. Three or four...
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Corsicans Are Using Bombs to Protect Their Island Paradise
The Corsican coastline If you've never been to Corsica, you really should. The island, which lies just off the Italian coast, is one of the most beautiful places in the world; it's covered in snowy...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - The $500 Billion Scrap Industry
This week on the VICE Podcast, Wilbert L. Cooper sits down with Adam Minter, an expert in the global economy of scrap and author of Junkyard Planet. Adam's unique perspective as an American who was...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Homeland Security Is Afraid of Mentally Ill Canadian Tourists
Photo via Flickr user arvind grover On Thursday, the Toronto Star reported that a 50-year-old paraplegic woman may have been barred from visiting the United States due to her history of mental health...
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