Rob Ford Denied Ordering a Hit on an Alleged Gang Member Connected to the...
Go Broncos! Photo via. Here’s a headline that any civilized community would be up in arms to read: Mayor Denies Murdering Local Man. And yet as a journalist in Toronto, today’s the day to report on...
View ArticleTrickle-Down Nuclear Armageddon
Photo via The gigantic ballistic missile pictured above is the result of a chain of assumptions that starts with an imagined traffic accident on the streets of Pakistan… sort of. What you're looking...
View ArticleThe Brazilian Slum Children Who Are Literally Swimming in Garbage
Photo by Diego Nigro/JC Imagem The Brazilian city of Recife is known for its majestic bridges, but in November a newspaper photo highlighted one of the metropolis’s uglier aspects. Published in the...
View ArticleShorties: Angry French Bigots... On Acid!
In early January, a bunch of bigoted French people gathered in Paris's Bastille Square to celebrate their rage with a "Day of Anger." About 20,000 of them turned up in the rain to complain about...
View ArticleThe Changing Climate Is Killing Baby Penguins
The Changing Climate Is Killing Baby Penguins
View ArticleFamine Is Being Used as a Weapon of War in Syria
The deaths of four residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus brought the total who have died from hunger in the camp to 73. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Last September, an...
View ArticleUkrainian Schoolgirls and Their Dreams of 'Clueless'
The other day, VICE received the following pitch: My name is Kristina Podobed, I am a photographer from Odessa, Ukraine. My friends and I did a shoot about the Ukrainian school life. We will be very...
View ArticleMatthew Regula's Homemade Synthesizers Prove DIY Is Still Alive
Matthew Regula's Homemade Synthesizers Prove DIY Is Still Alive
View ArticleMy Week at Feminist Camp
Don't try this at home. Photo by the author. Earlier this month I watched a doctor demonstrate how to perform an abortion on a papaya. Apparently papayas are perfect teaching tools for abortion...
View ArticleSothern Exposure: Multiple Wives and Plastic Lovers
1983 I’ve got a year-long gig in Saudi Arabia, subcontracted by Aramco Oil, to make slide/tape training programs, which means I fly around in helicopters taking pictures on oil rigs and at gas-oil...
View ArticleShatila's First Girls Basketball Team
Palestinians refugees in Lebanon are excluded from the social and political sphere. They are prohibited from pursing citizenship, working in high-skilled professions, and owning property in the...
View Article'Producer in the Trunk' Is Like Bangbus for Beats
'Producer in the Trunk' Is Like Bangbus for Beats
View ArticleThe Jihadi Alternative to the Geneva Peace Talks
While the eyes of the world were fixed on the peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition in Geneva, an entirely different round of negotiations were being conducted by al Qaeda in order...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Finger Food
There are two types of Super Bowl viewers: those who actually watch the football, and those who spend the game cramming their mouths full of whatever delicious greasy grub is at hand. Super Bowl food...
View ArticleKiller Mike On Marriage, Small Business, And Guns
Killer Mike On Marriage, Small Business, And Guns
View ArticleThief Subdues His Victim with His Penis
Reading about Florida in the news is like hearing a jackhammer outside your window: it ain’t getting better, but it is getting old. I’m beginning to wonder if the reason Florida seems like a failure...
View ArticleDelivering Bibles to North Koreans Is Tricky Business
Photo courtesy of Seoul USA For decades, the international community has been trying to figure out how best to help North Koreans and eventually topple (or at least liberalize) the totalitarian regime...
View ArticleVito Fun's Winter Photo Dump 2014
Winter slammed the East Coast this year in the worst way, so Vito Fun chased the sun to warmer climates. These pictures are breadcrumbs along Vito's funtrail as he traveled from witch-tit-cold New...
View ArticleTwo Decades of 10.Deep
Early on a morning in 1995, Scott Sasso scribbled the name “10.Deep” on a piece of notebook paper taped to his dorm room wall at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The name came to Scott on a...
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