Perfectionism Is a Mental Illness and It's Ruining My Life
Image by Cei Willis It's the common douchebag response—asked at a job interview what his biggest weakness is, he pretends to think for a moment before answering, "I guess I'd say my biggest problem is...
View ArticleEvery Woman: Life as a Truck-Stop Stripper
Everyone knows what charming places strip clubs can be, but perhaps there is no club so charming as one in Moriarty, New Mexico—a truck stop with taxidermy and the bras of former employees on the...
View ArticleThese Ice Fishing Photos Are Pure, Rugged Canadiana
There’s just something so Canadian about ice fishing. Maybe it’s because, like hockey, it involves buds, ice, sticks and copious amounts of drinking. Recently we heard our bud (and one of our...
View ArticleIs Australia Going to Kill the Great Barrier Reef on Friday?
Image via The largest reef network in the world may be half dead, but Queensland, Australia needs jobs and Asia needs coal—and coal jobs trump everything. We’ll be reminded of this again on Friday,...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - 'The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel'
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE podcast, authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy discuss their new book about the attack on Mumbai's Taj Hotel with journalist...
View ArticleThe 25 Albums Found at the Bottom of Every Used CD Bin
The 25 Albums Found at the Bottom of Every Used CD Bin
View ArticleLos Angeles Is Miserable: Photographing the Misery of LA's 6th Street
It's been 30 years since Randy Newman name-checked 6th Street in "I Love LA," his ironic ode to Los Angeles's class inequity. In that time, the divide between the city's handful of haves and countless...
View ArticleFringes: Reborn Babies
A global scene of 20,000 doll makers and collectors has developed around life-like replicas of newborns called Reborn Babies. The price of these dolls is usually anywhere from $250 to $800, depending...
View ArticleRob Ford Says He Did Not Have a Hand in Killing Anthony Smith
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 ArticleMexican Narco Assassins Were Sent to the Philippines to Murder Two Canadian...
Screen capture via. Earlier this month, agents of the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation raided three separate luxury condos in suburban Manila—one of which had been operating as a drug...
View ArticleNoisey: Chiraq - Part 2
In the second episode of Noisey's Chiraq, Chief Keef and his crew head to New York while we catch up with MGS and Global Gangstas Entertainment, two other rap collectives in Chicago. They, along with...
View ArticleWhoops, I Like Pro Football
I always thought football was really lame and retarded. As an outsider who hadn’t watched more than four or five games in my life, it just looked like a bunch of lard bros banging into one another...
View ArticleThe Sad State of the State of the Union
All screenshots via last night's State of the Union Address, which can be watched and read here. The first modern State of the Union Address was delivered on April 8, 1913 by Woodrow Wilson. It caused...
View ArticleIt Only Took the NSA 61 Years to Hire Its First Privacy and Civil Liberties...
It Only Took the NSA 61 Years to Hire Its First Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer
View ArticleMeet the Two Guys Trying to Bring Cannabis Cafes to the UK
Colin Davies being hauled off by police after opening The Dutch Experience in 2001 (photo courtesy of HempCity) There's been a lot of talk about cannabis recently. At the end of last year, the plant...
View ArticleThis Guy Spent the Mid-90s Living in a Travelling Rave Van
This year is the 20th anniversary of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, the legislation that effectively banned raves and sent the whole scene into the expensive confines of legitimate...
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 ArticleThe Changing Climate Is Killing Baby Penguins
The Changing Climate Is Killing Baby Penguins
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 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...
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