Cry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to despair at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Jenny Lauren Jenny Lauren, photo via Twitter The incident: A woman's seat wouldn't recline...
View ArticleRussia, Canada, and China Are Fighting for Control of the Arctic
An example of the Arctic ice that Canada, Russia, and a few other nations are so hot for. Photo via You might think the only bad blood between Russia and Canada would be over a hockey game, but for...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: Author Deborah Reed Sets Things on Fire
Deborah Reed looks like one of the sweetest women you could ever meet. She’s blond, hazel-eyed, tiny, and bright. I first met her in a small town that borders the Black Forest in Germany this past...
View ArticleA Brief History of 285 Kent Through Yelp Comments
A Brief History of 285 Kent Through Yelp Comments
View ArticleBeing on Call for a Swiss Call Girl
Photo via When you mention prostitution to Americans, many of them think about dope-addicted, morally destitute damsels in distress under the thumb of blinged-out pimps, before Richard Gere comes to...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: The Dark Appeal of ‘Blackfish’
Image by Courtney Nicholas Everyone seems to be talking about Blackfish, the new documentary about killer whales trained to do tricks for humans at amusement parks. More specifically, it’s about orcas...
View ArticleCan Everyone Stop Freaking Out Over Which Bathroom Transgender People Use?
The author. Would you really expect her to use the men's room? Photo by Ryan Harding. There’s a crazy right wing conspiracy against transgender people and it’s just turned ugly. Conservatives are...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Racial Prejudice Might Make Black Men Age Faster
Photo via Flickr user Bordecia34 Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most...
View ArticleThe Mexican Doctor Who Leads a Militia Against the Cartels
"I attend to my patients every day from seven in the morning till noon, but after noon, I go to war," said Dr. Mireles at his Tepalcatepec office last November. All photos by Hans-Maximo Musielik...
View ArticleGrowing Opium Is All the Sinai Bedouins Have Left
An opium crop in the Sinai When spring-time dusk falls in Egypt's Sinai mountains, the opium share-croppers leave their gardens—a profusion of pink, purple, and green against the arid landscape—and...
View ArticleConflict in South Sudan
The town of Bor has already changed hands three times in South Sudan's three weeks of civil war, and whoever controls the strategically important state capital will have the upper hand in the...
View ArticleSluts
Moncler jacket, vintage necklace; Carhartt shirt, vintage necklace PHOTOS BY RICO SCAGLIOLA AND MICHAEL MEIER STYLIST: LARK RING Left: Moncler jacket, April77 pants, vintage necklace and belt Left and...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Rilgood Is Brooklyn's Self-Proclaimed King of Nigeria
Photo by Cheney Orr. Video by Taji Ameen. For this week's Mahal, photographer Cheney Orr and I hooked up with our friend Rilgood—a rapper who calls himself “the King of Nigeria.” Rilgood immigrated...
View ArticleThis Sex Offender-Spotting App Sounds Like a Really Bad Idea
This Sex Offender-Spotting App Sounds Like a Really Bad Idea
View ArticleArnold Frolics Takes Haunting Photographs Using Nudes and Skewed Perspective
Arnold Frolics is a Toronto-based photographer who uses nudes, skewed perspectives, floods of light in darkness, and subjects who often appear withdrawn and almost defeated to create lonely, yet...
View ArticleCould This Christian Horror Film About a Demon-Possessed Porn Magazine Be...
Rich Praytor and Beverly Banks, the producers of The Lock In. Photo courtesy of Holy Moly Pictures. “There is a correlation between pornography and demon activity.” That is a direct line from one of...
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