VICE News: Ukraine Rising - Part 2
For weeks, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian protesters have been flooding the streets of Kiev, occupying government buildings, and taking over the city's Independence Square. Initially, the...
View ArticleDid Enbridge Use Toxic Chemicals to Clean Up Their Oil Spill in Kalamazoo?
From the Kalamazoo clean-up site. Photo by Michelle Barlond-Smith. It’s been three and a half years since Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline ruptured in Marshall, Michigan, leaking more than 843,000 gallons...
View ArticleVICE Special: Nicopanda's Ho Ho Holiday Special
Follow Nicola Formichetti and his team of artists as they create an alternative holiday experience and space for New York's most interesting and holiday-dubious residents to party, play, and fuck shit...
View ArticleThe Best of VICE on YouTube
It's been a crazy year for VICE. Our HBO show was nominated for an Emmy, Ad Age called us the Publishing Company of the Year, and our YouTube channel hit almost 4 million subscribers. As a great man...
View ArticleTubesteak: How to Suck an Uncut Cock
There comes a moment in every American cocksucker’s (and I use that term as an honorific) life when he/she pulls down a pair of trousers and is met not with a well-shorn sailor, but a hooded monk....
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: Summer Camp
Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets and We Will Not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds (reissue due from...
View ArticleThe Barbie Dream House Experience Is the Scariest Place on Earth
Photo courtesy Marc Serota/Mattel The Sawgrass Mills Mall is the second biggest tourist attraction in Florida after Walt Disney World. Built in the shape of an alligator, the Everglades-themed outlet...
View ArticleSatanists Turned the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church’s Dead Mom Gay
Photos via the Satanic Temple The Satanic Temple, a burgeoning community of worship devoted to the Dark Lord, has performed a “Pink Mass” over the grave of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps...
View ArticleThe New Roma Ghettos
Children playing on a broken wall in the Vel'ka Ida Roma settlement, in eastern Slovakia. The massive US Steel factory is visible in the background. Photos by Matt Lutton. Throughout history,...
View ArticleWe Spoke with Laura van den Berg About 'The Isle of Youth'
This was a great year for the short story. George Saunders’s "Teeth of December" rocketed up the best seller list, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and we saw a host of great new story...
View ArticleVICE News: White Student Union
NEWS Here Comes the White-Power Safety Patrol They Want to Clean Up Your Campus By Wes Enzinna Members of the White Student Union, from left to right (they agreed to participate on condition we only...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Travel: The Japanese Love Industry
Japan is a country that is dying—literally. Japan has more people over the age of 65 and the smallest number of people under the age of 15 in the world. It has the fastest negative population growth...
View ArticleI Went to Corey Feldman's Birthday Party
DISCLAIMER: I was only allowed to attend Corey's birthday party under the condition that he have final edit of whatever I write. Below is the text approved by Corey Feldman: You probably know...
View ArticleBeauty and the Plague
Howard Ashman in 1977. Archival photos courtesy of Kyle Renick. The first week of November 1989, filmmakers and executives from the Walt Disney Company gathered in a crowded room in Disney World in...
View ArticleThe Sport of Kings Is Full of Scum
Veterinarian Dr. Mark Gerard (left) entering the courthouse in Mineola, New York, with his attorney, F. Lee Bailey, September 1978. Dr. Gerard was convicted of fraud for masterminding a horse-racing...
View ArticleVICE News: Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor - Full Length
NEWS AUSTERITY'S DRUG OF CHOICE Sisa Is Destroying the Lives of Athens’s Homeless People By Alex Miller A meeting with an anarchist in Exarcheia, a district of Athens. Photos by Henry Langston....
View ArticleDon't Speak Creole in Quebec If You Know What's Good For You
From a protest for and against the Charter of Values. via Flickr. Quebec’s French language police are up to their old xenophobic tricks again. This time, the victims are two people who were speaking...
View ArticleVICE News: Terminal Insecurity
The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) is supposed to prevent passengers from slipping anything that could be used as a weapon past its multiple layers of security personnel, scanning...
View ArticleReality Bites: The Quaking Mess
Image via Flickr user another.point.in.time This week, I lost a childhood friend to drugs and alcohol. He was only 24 years old. My friend was a brilliant musician and talented artist, but he was...
View ArticleChicago Is a Paradise
Chicago is a misunderstood city. More renowned for its crooked politics, oppressive violent crime, and shitty weather than whatever the local tourist board tells you, the true essence of the place is...
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