Please Kill Me: Moe Tucker - Snapshots of the Velvet Underground
Art by Brian Wallsby Maureen Tucker had a front row seat to punk rock history being conceived before her very eyes. An average high school girl from Levittown, Long Island, her life was saved by rock...
View ArticleA Tribe Called Red’s Deejay NDN Is Being Threatened For Pointing Out Racism
Deejay NDN. Photo via Facebook. When will society move on from branding sports teams with weird outdated colonial imagery? Knowing that it’s a bad idea to name your athletic club after a race of...
View ArticleMillions of Cubans May Lose Their Life Savings This Year
All photos by the author "Fucking cops in Cuba are always busting everybody’s balls." A man mutters this to me in perfect English as I walk down the once-elegant Calle 23 in downtown Havana. He is the...
View ArticleThe Glue-Sniffing Street Kids of Somaliland
Mohamed poses for the camera while Ibrahim takes a hit from a glue bottle behind him. On an ordinary night, after the sun sets over Hargeisa, Somaliland, Mohamed packs up his shoe-shine kit and heads...
View ArticleVICE Special: Japan Won't Let Filmmakers Use the Yakuza for Movie Plots Anymore
Media Works, the film production company founded by Hoyu Yamamoto, specializes in producing Yakuza movies, almost all of which are based on true events. They produce dozens of movies a year, making up...
View ArticleThe Best Drummers You've Never Heard of Are Shredding in a Church in Flint,...
The Best Drummers You've Never Heard of Are Shredding in a Church in Flint, Michigan
View ArticleI Ate Horse Ass in Kazakhstan
Astana. All photos by the author, aside from the one of the horse ass. Before Kazakhstan’s ascent to the global stage as an oil-rich, ambitious, modernizing player, it was one of the world’s most...
View ArticleAn Energy Company Is Suing a Mother of Two For Parodying Their Logo on Her Blog
New wind turbines are at the centre of this dispute. Photo via. Ed's note: In an earlier version of this article, the headline incorrectly referred to Esther as a single mother. We regret this...
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 ArticleA Babysitter in Virginia Tattooed the Kids He Was Meant to Be Watching
image via Last month, three days before Christmas, Virginia couple Melissa Delp and Daniel Janney left Delp's two kids, both under 13, with their friend Alexander Edwards for the night. Then there's a...
View ArticleIbiza'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 ArticleVICE News: Syria: al Qaeda's New Home
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 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 ArticleValerie Scott Says Your Great Aunt Was Probably a Sex Worker
Valerie Scott has been apart of the sex work community for over three decades. All photos by the author. There has been a lot to say about sex work in Canada this past year. There are ongoing debates...
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 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 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 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...
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