The Mormon Church No Longer Believes That Dark Skin Is a Punishment from God
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, was started about 30 years before the Civil War by a bunch of white farmers, so it should come as no surprise that...
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Fuct T-shirt, Nike pants, Adidas shoes, Alleyon Apparel hat, vintage watch; Adidas top, Adidas x KZK x Mark McNairy shorts, vintage long johns, Palladium boots, Alleyon Apparel hat, vintage bracelet...
View ArticleWe Are Not Men: Maurtified
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
View ArticleVICE's Top 50 Albums of 2013
Frank Zappa once said that "music criticism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." We're onboard with that statement, which is why this time of year...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Metronomy's "I'm Aquarius" Music Video Is a Cosmic Rabbit Hole
Metronomy's "I'm Aquarius" Music Video Is a Cosmic Rabbit Hole
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Hilton Als on Writing and Race
This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam welcomes Hilton Als, the theater writer for the New Yorker and one of America's most daring and inventive critics. In his latest book, White Girls, Als blends...
View ArticleAngry Mobs and Revenge Killings in the Central African Republic
Photos by Robert King The mob wanted blood. Almost 100 people, many of them barely teenagers, had massed in front of the gates of Friendship Hospital, kept at bay only by French soldiers and their...
View ArticleFrom Insanity to Death: Inside Burma’s Drug Eradication Museum
All photos by Alex Palmer A few hundred feet from glittering Junction Square Shopping Center, in the center of Burma’s capital city Yangon, you’ll find the crumbling Drugs Elimination Museum. As an...
View ArticleWorshipping at the Altar of Maximón, the Drunken, Devilish Mayan God Beloved...
A shrine to Maximón in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. All photos by the author Depending on who you ask, Maximón is Satan, a Catholic saint, or a relic of the pre-colonial Mayan religion. Everyone can...
View ArticleThere's a Tiny Chance Pussy Riot Could Be Released Tomorrow
Pussy Riot's Katia Samutsevich. Photo by Olga Kravets Despite the fact that most of the civilized world is upset about the Russian establishment's treatment of dissidents, so far Vladimir Putin has...
View ArticleNo Tomorrow: A South Side Heroin Addict Parses the Noise on Chief Keef and...
No Tomorrow: A South Side Heroin Addict Parses the Noise on Chief Keef and Violent Crime in Chicago
View ArticleWhat the Hell Is Going on in South Sudan?
SPLA soldiers in South Sudan. Photo via Wikipedia Commons. As dusk settled over Juba on Tuesday, citizens of the South Sudanese capital were hoping that the air would not be filled with gunfire for...
View ArticleIs Montreal's Mayor Serious About a Massage Parlor Crackdown?
Glamor shots from Lily's profile on "Montrealaise," an online directory of Montreal sex workers and erotic masseuses. Lily jerks off men for a living at an east end Montreal massage parlor. She loves...
View ArticleA Look Inside Illegal Canadian Weed Grow Houses from the 1990s
In the mid-90s, photographer Victor John Penner did some pro-bono work for Jim Skipp, his graphic designer friend in Vancouver, British Columbia that involved shooting a police chopper and some...
View ArticleTwo Environmentalists Were Charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for Too Much Glitter...
Photo by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance Last Friday in Oklahoma City, Stefan Warner and Moriah Stephenson walked through the front door of Devon Tower, the headquarters of Devon Energy. The...
View ArticleLet’s Trim Our Hair In Accordance With The Socialist Lifestyle
PAM Striped Dress, PAM Gold Dress PHOTOS BY BERNARD GUEIT STYLIST: RAMONA TELECICAN Stylist Assistant: Katy Roberts Producer: Wendy Syfret Models: Madison (Maverick Models) and Zach (Chadwick Models)...
View ArticleIn 2013, Grocery Store Items Talk Shit and Worship Lil B
Hamburger Helper in its natural habitat, via Flickr user David_Jones. Twitter is basically just a bunch of cannons firing confetti into a great abyss. As we’ve learned by observing the 140-character...
View ArticleThis Is a Lie
American Apparel jacket PHOTOS BY JILL BETH HANNES Photo Assistants: Ashley Linder, Charlie Beaton, Daniel Beaton Models: Ashlyn Holsinger, Ashley Linder, Daniel Beaton, Luis Angel Cancel ASOS sweater...
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