The VICE Reader: Chuck Palahniuk Is Keeping Portland Strange
Many towns try to seem unique, but Portland is genuinely strange. During my ten-day visit, crows were virtually the only birds I saw in the sky. At the pad where I crashed, my old high school buddies...
View ArticleAircraft Carriers Are the Ultimate Weapons (of Peace)
US, Italian, and French aircraft carriers. Photo via For the past few weeks, China, India, France, Italy, and the United States have engaged in a large-scale promotional campaign, complete with...
View ArticleWe Interviewed the White Supremacist Running for Mayor of Toronto
Don Andrews hates minorities but loves art, I guess. Photos by author Don Andrews is a self-described white racist and the leader of the Nationalist Party of Canada. He co-founded far-right white...
View ArticleThe Big Gay Russian Surprise of the Winter Olympics
In less than a month, the world will turn its attention to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. As the Russian government gets ready for the event, the gay community is preparing in a slightly different...
View ArticleOur Obsession with "No Kill" Shelters Might Be Harming Animals
image via Flickr User T3I Eric There's an ugly schism happening in the animal shelter business over whether or not we should kill animals when a shelter gets too crowded. The reality used to be that...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Simon J. Heath Talks About His New Movie 'Ten Men Talk New York'
This week, Lower East Side legend Clayton Patterson invited me to the screening of Simon J. Heath's new film, Ten Men Talk New York. A tale about what New York means to ten of its natives, the film...
View ArticleInto the Weird: The Empire State Building Sued This Photographer for Taking...
Image via. On August 9, 2013, photographer Allen Henson took photographs of a topless woman on the observatory of the Empire State Building. Considering it’s legal for women to go topless in New York,...
View ArticleVICE News: Young and Gay in Putin's Russia - Full Length
When Russian President Vladimir Putin banned gay "propaganda" in June last year, Russia's LGBT community went from being a stigmatized fringe group to full-blown enemies of the state. Homophobia...
View ArticleVICE Special: VICE-Produced 'Fishing Without Nets' Is Getting Tons of Love at...
Cutter Hodierne’s short film about Somali pirates, Fishing Without Nets, was a 2012 Sundance grand jury prize-winning short. We were so blown away by the film that we decided to team up with Cutter to...
View ArticleStep Inside the Computer Screen of 'Noah'
A still from Noah. If you have been near the internet in the last few months, you have probably heard about Noah, a 17-minute short film that takes place entirely on a teenager's laptop screen. In...
View ArticleModern Satanism and the Order of Nine Angles
Modern Satanism and the Order of Nine Angles
View ArticleIs It OK for a Journalist to Reveal the Birth Gender of a Trans Person?
Photo via Here begins a mysterious tale, a remarkable turn of events filled with superstition and dark discoveries, quirks and confusion, lies and past lives. Yeah, that’s the X-Files theme tune you...
View ArticleA Moment Of Wonder
Photo by Max Olijnyk My friend Liege puts on these monthly hip-hop parties in the city. He’s been doing them for a while now, they’re really popular and all my friends go; but I’ve never been. I tried...
View ArticleWeediquette: Why I'm Over Dabbing
I discovered dabbing about a year ago, and since then I’ve seen the curiosity about it thrive. Apparently Google doesn’t turn up very informative results on the topic because lots of people have...
View ArticleComics: Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #98
Hello Lovers of Graphic Arts, My name is Nick Gazin and for several years I have been writing a semi-regular comics column for VICE, although sometimes it shifts focus to fine art and illustration or...
View ArticleFirst They Came for the Electric Bikes…
Photo by Ben Shotwell For years, food deliverymen in New York City relied on the electric bike, or e-bike, a normal bicycle with a small motor attached to it. With its small size and lightweight...
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