Munchies: Jackson Boxer
Jackson Boxer runs Brunswick House, a grand Georgian townhouse that was previously home to squat raves and rubble before he transformed it into one of South London's destination restaurants. We ate...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Chamblee Police Department Channel 11 News via Reddit. The incident: A man charged his electric car...
View ArticleChild-Stealing Demons Terrorized the Alps Again This Year
The darkest, coldest, scariest day of the year in the Alps region is December 6. That's when Saint Nikolaus (Santa, for you guys) visits us, bringing with him nuts, oranges, apples, sweets, and an...
View ArticleHot Links: Tourist Traps
Image via. Welcome to our brand new food column, Hot Links, where VICE employee Dan Meyer explores the neglected culinary stars of YouTube. Each week, Dan will present a selection of videos...
View ArticleIf R. Kelly Makes Us Uncomfortable, Why Do We Keep Listening?
If R. Kelly Makes Us Uncomfortable, Why Do We Keep Listening?
View ArticleOpposition Parties and Vitali Klitschko Are Calming Kiev's Protesters
At the end of last week, a mass of protesters descended on Maidan Square, Kiev. There to urge President Viktor Yanukovych to bring them closer to the EU, demonstrators were riding through police lines...
View ArticleHow To Raise Fucking Twins: The Hilarious World of Infertility Treatment
Editor's note: VICE has been around for almost 20 years now, and a few of us are getting a little long in the tooth, you know? Some people around the office are starting to shift their attention from...
View ArticleThe FDA Doesn't Want to Hide Your DNA
With regard to 23andMe, Silicon Valley's favorite genetic testing startup, the agency is doing exactly what government regulation is designed to do: Protect consumers from unsafe or misleading medical...
View ArticleNew York State of Mind: Kicking It with Bebe Panthere in Brooklyn
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
View ArticleKids Telling Dirty Jokes: Carla
Kids Telling Dirty Jokes is our new series that features tiny comedians we found on Craigslist. This episode stars Carla, who's kinda like a young Paula Poundstone, minus all those child abuse and...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: The Most Racist Comments About Nelson Mandela
Photo via Flickr User South Africa The Good News Welcome to a special Nelson Mandela edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Ambigu-Gus Van Sant
Image from Gus Van Sant's Milk Gus Van Sant’s first film to be released in theaters was Mala Noche (1985), based on the memoir of the same title by Portland poet Walt Curtis. It depicts Walt as a gay...
View ArticleArt Gallery: Photographing People Once They've Left a Work State-of-Mind
Massimo Vitali works at documenting people who are not at work. He photographs places where people go to be as mentally removed from their jobs and daily lives as possible—people who have clearly...
View ArticleFinding Herpes and Cocaine in the Antwerp Public Library
Scientists at the Catholic University of Leuven tested ten of the most popular books at the Antwerp library for microbes and bacteria. What did they find? Herpes and cocaine. Every title—including...
View ArticleMeet the Robots Battling to Become the Future of Disaster Response
Meet the Robots Battling to Become the Future of Disaster Response
View ArticleOutsider Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out the Universe
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons The secrets of the universe have all been figured out, thanks to a guy who owns a trailer park in Washington. Jim Carter has discovered what he says explains,...
View ArticleDIY Inventors: The Real Iron Man
In the second episode of DIY: Chinese Inventors, we took a trip to Jilin, China to visit our friend Sun Jifa. Nearly a decade ago, Sun lost his hands in a fishing-related explosion. Sun couldn't...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Watch the Gonz's New Short Film '08NOBEL80'
About a year ago, I missed a call from artist and skateboarder Mark Gonzales a.k.a. the Gonz. He left this voicemail. I tried to return the call, but my call failed to go through. A few nights ago, I...
View ArticleRob Ford Doesn't Know Anything About Football
Mayor Rob Ford, performance art genius and Canada’s greatest embarrassment since this lady knows a lot of things. He knows how to drink like a motherfucker, supposedly downing half a 40 ounce bottle...
View ArticleTamara Faith Berger Writes Coming-of-Age Novels About Porn and Teen Sex
Image courtesy of Tamara Faith Berger To read Tamara Faith Berger's novels is to acknowledge that she isn't your mother's coming-of-age novelist. Tamara famously cut her literary teeth writing for...
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