Ibiza's Sex Workers Have Formed Spain's First Prostitution Union
Image via The first sex worker’s co-operative has recently formed in Ibiza, the party island of Spain. Marking the country’s first union for prostitutes, The Sex Services Cooperative of Spain (Sealeer...
View ArticleYemen's Bedouin Tribes Are Getting Sick of US Drone Strikes
Wreckage from the drone strike near Jism, Yemen The wedding convoy was traveling through the mountainous landscape of al-Baydha when one of the vehicles broke down. It was mid-afternoon, around 185...
View ArticleA 13-Year-Old Wants to Map All the Bullies in the US
A 13-Year-Old Wants to Map All the Bullies in the US
View ArticleVICE News: Syria: al Qaeda's New Home - Trailer
Three years ago, an uprising against the Assad regime turned into what looked like a straightforward civil war between Syrian government forces and rebels. However, over time, what had started as a...
View ArticleFighting in Syria Is Inching Lebanon Closer to Civil War
Video and photos by the author In Switzerland Wednesday, delegates from more than 40 countries gathered at the Geneva II conference to discuss the extraordinarily theoretical possibility of peace in...
View ArticleBees Are Building Nests with Our Waste Plastic
Bees Are Building Nests with Our Waste Plastic
View ArticleSci-Fi Doesn't Have to Be Dominated by Horny Bro Wizards
The author. Image by Jordan Rein In a genre where supposedly Anything Goes, where the boundaries of narrative and potential reality are not only immaterial, but also intended to be shattered with pure...
View ArticleWeediquette: Did Obama Just Screw Weed Legalization by Supporting It?
Image via The Obama administration's relative silence on the issue of marijuana legalization has been good for the cause. But in a recent New Yorker article the president's stated position on the...
View Article"Everyone, Everywhere in Tbilisi Is Drunk as Fuck All the Time"
Giorgi Nebieridze is a Georgian photographer who currently lives in Berlin and enjoys taking unedited pictures of his "drug-addict friends" on color film. This is a collection of shots he took, mostly...
View ArticleA Revenge-for-Hire Business Just Opened in San Francisco
The man sitting across from me was not named John Winters, but he wanted me to call him that anyway. John was well dressed in a tan suit, seemed to be in his late 40s, and explicitly asked me not to...
View ArticleSoylent's First Consumer-Ready Batch Passed $2 Million in Orders
Soylent's First Consumer-Ready Batch Passed $2 Million in Orders
View ArticleSatoshi Kawamoto's Garden Art Is to Die For
If tonight didn’t solidify my love for Satoshi Kawamoto's plant-chalk-illustration-hybrid brain-children, I don't know what would. I trekked through one of the worst New York City snowstorms of the...
View ArticleA Visit to the World's Largest Porn Convention
Sex sells. From sandpaper to steak, there is seemingly nothing it can't be used to market—save, perhaps, baby formula. Of course, sex is best at selling itself, which makes the Adult Entertainment...
View ArticleThis Guy's on a Quest to Save London's Death Row Dogs
Niall Lester with Dru in the room where he was found after being abandoned If you don't have a soft spot for abandoned dogs, you're a monster. There's something supremely shitty about adopting a...
View ArticleBetween Beirut and a Hard Place
All illustrations by Sammy Harkham It was a hot day in mid-June when Marissa Ponterella, who answers phones at the Brooklyn Brewery, told me I had a call from a special agent from Homeland Security....
View ArticleA New Species of River Dolphin Is the First to Be Discovered in 100 Years
A New Species of River Dolphin Is the First to Be Discovered in 100 Years
View ArticleCambodians Are Still Angry at Their Government
Protesters gather in Phnom Penh, angry at the disputed election results On the first Saturday of 2014, some monks sat eating lunch in Freedom Park, Phnom Penh, cross-legged in their orange robes. A...
View ArticleMunchies: Seamus Mullen
Seamus Mullen is a James Beard nominated chef and owner of Tertulia, a Spanish restaurant located in Manhattan’s West Village. We dropped into the restaurant to pay him a visit, but Seamus was busy...
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