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I Spoke to a Rejected Iranian Presidential Candidate
t A campaign rally during the 2009 Iranian presidential election. (Image via) In a couple of weeks, Iranians will go to the polls to choose a replacement for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who's held...
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Reviewed: The Worst Music Video Ever Starring the World's Biggest Dickhead
At some point in the 90s, queercore band Pansy Division were interviewed by Kerrang! magazine. In that interview, they compared major pop punk bands like NOFX and Pennywise to 80s party metal scumbags...
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We're finally pushing full steam ahead with a Canadian summer and we literally could not be happier about it. It's time to ruin all your jeans forever and turn them into cut-offs and start thinking...
View ArticleVICE News: Teenage Riot: Montreal - Part 2
It’s no secret Montrealers love to protest. Amidst a string of corruption scandals, anti-GMO sentiment, and tuition hikes that led to last year’s student strike, the site of a angry people marching...
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Occupiers Faced Down Cops in Istanbul's Taksim Square
On the night of May 27, bulldozers and backhoes rolled into Gezi Park, a tiny island of trees and grass at the center of Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, and started ripping it apart. This was part...
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VICE Loves Magnum: Jonas Bendiksen Takes Photos in Countries That Don't Exist
NORWAY. Vesterålen. Burning barrack. Magnum is probably the most famous photo agency in the world. Even if you haven't heard of it, chances are you're familiar with its images, be they Robert Capa's...
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Pen Pals: Burying the Dead and Unloved
Image via There are times in everyone’s life when something profound occurs to us—events that should change us by teaching a valuable life lesson. I’d venture that I experienced countless lessons...
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VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Successful Alcoholics'
Under the heavy influence of alcohol I’ve done some pretty irrational and amazing shit. You get to the point where you feel invincible, but it’s usually at the cost of your night’s memory. The...
View ArticleThe Great British Badger Hunt Starts Tomorrow
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The Mercy Rule: The Joyless Joy of Bad Baseball
Photo via Flickr user Bradley Buhro Watching a long, slow, poorly played baseball game that doesn't end how you wanted it to is analogous, in several ways, to drinking pitchers of lousy beer outdoors...
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This Week in Racism: Sending Racist Emails About Michelle Obama Is Not a Good...
Photo by Nate Miller Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. With the assistance of my friends at the @YesYoureRacist Twitter account, I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to...
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Breast Cancer Survivors Find the Michelangelo of Nipple Tattoos
In the waiting room of Little Vinnie’s Tattoos, bikers and punks sit side by side with church-going grandmas and soccer moms. Customers fly in from as far as Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Brazil, to an...
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In Colombia, Lawmakers Debate Making Ecstasy Legal
Photo courtesy of Echela Cabeza Beats fill the lofty space inside the Latina Power club on a Friday night in the Chapinero neighborhood of Colombia’s capital. A kaleidoscope of images project onto a...
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Comics: Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #89
Dear Comic Lovers, My name is Nicholas Gazin, and I love comics. Approximately once a week I write a column in which I cover comics, art, illustration, and nerd interest and review some books. My...
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The Sixth Day of Fire, Tear Gas, and Blood in Istanbul
On the sixth day of the biggest civil uprising Turkey has seen in a decade, police forces retreated from Taksim Square in central Istanbul following a 36-hour battle. Tens of thousands of protesters...
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Weediquette: Egon the Blunt Getter
Rembrandt's "The Syndics of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild," 1662, via Wikimedia Commons When I was 15, a weed mentor of mine told me over a shwag blunt that there are people in this world who refuse to...
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Tubesteak: At the World’s Gayest Party – Life Ball 2013
Photo courtesy of Life Ball There's something about the classical uniformity of Vienna (or any European city) that makes large groups of people in evening dresses seem perfectly natural. That's why...
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Do We Really Need a National Chain of Pot Stores?
Image via Jamen Shively is high on cannabis legalization. For someone who only lit up for the first time ever last year, Shively, a former Microsoft manager, sure has mastered all the heady pro-pot...
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Question of the Day: What Do You Think About Critiquing Naked Women on TV?
Blachman's male panel judging a naked woman's body. (Image via) Last month saw the premiere of Blachman, a new Danish TV show where a panel of men judge the bodies of naked women. That's literally the...
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