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The Many Narratives of the Arab Spring
Last November, senior government officials held a ceremony in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, unveiling a monument to the revolution’s martyrs. The monument was simple, though its significance was not. It...
View ArticleNoisey Is Liveblogging the Grammys with @Seinfeld2000
Noisey Is Liveblogging the Grammys with @Seinfeld2000
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Writer's Block: Conceptual Vandalism with Sabe Kst
All photos by Chris Kennedy Writer's Block is a frequent column that takes a low-brow approach to profiling various street bombers and modern-day vandals with a mixture of stories, off-the-cuff...
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Resurrecting Bed-Stuy Through 'The Death of Bessie Smith'
Actors Jamyl Dobson and Jessica Afton. Photo by Kristina Williamson On Tuesday afternoon, in the conference room of Bed-Stuy’s Interfaith Medical Center, a bronze-horned phonograph released the sultry...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Shanghai - Part 2
In part two of Fresh Off the Boat: Shanghai, Eddie travels around the city with popular food writer Jenny Gao, where he starts his day with some poop-infused coffee, throws down in a good, old...
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The "Burmese bin Laden" Swears He's a Good Guy
Photos by Andrew Stanbridge The Buddhist monk many people hold responsible for Myanmar riots that have killed hundreds of Muslims and displaced thousands more is sitting in front of me, calmly sipping...
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Question Of The Day - What Do You Think Of Sydney’s Lockout?
Image via Last week Sydney premier Barry O’Farrell announced that new lockout laws will be introduced in an attempt to curb alcohol-fuelled violence in the city. From now pubs and bars will not allow...
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The Romanian Village Ravaged by a Plague of Earthquakes
Illustration by Michael Shaeffer Izvoarele is a small village of 300 homes in southern Romania that had a problem late last year: There was constantly an earthquake happening. Tremors that measured up...
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VICE Special: Baby DJs
news YOUR BABY IS WORTHLESS IF IT ISN'T A DJ By Nicole Jones Photo courtesy of Natalie Elizabeth Weiss Hey, how’s your baby doin’? What kind of music is it listening to? Kidz Bop? The Wiggles? Fuckin’...
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On Turning 30
Drawing by Molly Crabapple When I was 24, a curator I hoped to work with told me: “When you're 30, you'll be really ugly, and your boyfriend will leave you. But I'd still fuck you.” I turned 30 in...
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These Guys Build the World's Tallest Flagpoles for Authoritarian Regimes
The 427-foot tall Aqaba flagpole in Jordan Marc Summers and David Chambers have a pretty unusual job. Together, through their company Trident Support Corporation, they build the world's tallest...
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Neither Big nor Easy: The Music Lover’s Guide to the New Orleans Elections
All photos of the January 17 rally against changes to New Orleans's noise ordinance by Chet Overall. In the past few years, even as the Louisiana state tourism board has adopted the slogan, “No...
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Mossless in America: Kathya Landeros
Mossless in America is a new column featuring interviews with documentary photographers. The series is produced in partnership with Mossless magazine, an experimental photography publication run by...
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Los Angeles Is Miserable: Los Angeles Is Miserable: An Introduction
The second decade of the 21st century might be remembered as a golden age for the city of Los Angeles. In the past five years, America's second largest metropolis has seen record-low crime rates, a...
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Anarchists in São Paulo Rioted Against the World Cup This Weekend
Photos by Alice Martins About 2,500 people marched through the streets to the center of São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday to protest against the cost of hosting the World Cup. The sun was beating down and...
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Los Angeles Is Miserable: What Makes People in Los Angeles Miserable?
The LA2020 Commission report infamously claimed that almost 40 percent of the population of Los Angeles lives in "misery." They point to high poverty rates, long commute times, and local government’s...
View ArticleA Wearable Book Feeds You Its Characters' Emotions As You Read
A Wearable Book Feeds You Its Characters' Emotions As You Read
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What the Hell Happened to Apple's Advertising?
Last week marked the 30th anniversary of “1984,” the Orwellian commercial that introduced the Mac computer to the world. It was a new level of bombast not just for tech advertising, but the whole damn...
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Los Angeles Is Miserable: Los Angeles Is Finally Starting to Run Out of Water
Image via In LA, we know our region cycles between El Niño years and drought years, but we don't have many bone-dry years. Right now is the driest the region has been in 163 years of formal record...
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