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Neither Big nor Easy: Traffic Cameras Are a Municipal Moneymaking Scam
Photos by James and Kara Hayes I almost made it through my 30s without a single speeding ticket. Then came New Orleans’s traffic cameras. My neighborhood, Bywater, suffered a post-Katrina wave of...
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Meet the Nieratkos: Bonnie Rotten, the AVN Performer of the Year, Has Super...
Ever since the tender age of 12 the two things I’ve loved more than anything in this world, the only two constants in my life for the past 25 years, have been sex and skateboarding. I don’t claim to...
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Freeze Your Ass Off for Charity at the Polar Plunge
"Man, is it cold outside," said the emcee at 10 AM sharp. "How cold is it!?" said the crowd. "So cold that Miley Cyrus froze to her wrecking ball." The town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, is full of...
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Governments Have Been Spying Their Way Out of Dealing With Climate Change
International spy club buddies. Photo via. Recently released documents from Edward Snowden’s monumental leak trove show that the NSA spied on America’s behalf during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate...
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Those Buffalo Wings from Last Year’s Super Bowl Gave Me an STD
Above, a full load of chicken wings via. It was the end of the first half of Harbaugh Bowl, a.k.a. Super Bowl LVXII, and Kaep’s pass had just been picked off by Ravens safety Ed Reed. As a Giants fan,...
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Los Angeles Is Miserable: An Anti-War Sculpture Is the Latest Battleground in...
"If you don't like it here, you're free to leave," is a constant refrain for those who don't like to hear criticism of their city. I love Los Angeles, and I actively want to see it improve, but what...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to despair at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Salt Lake City School District Salt Lake Tribune via Gawker The incident: A school realized that...
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This Week in Racism: Woman Surprised to See Fat Black Girl in Her Yoga Class...
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist. -xoJane is the kind of...
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Hot Links: Fork Lifters: An Etiquette Primer
Really old dining table setup via. Welcome back to our food column, Hot Links, where Dan Meyer explores the neglected culinary stars of YouTube. Dan presents a selection of videos highlighting...
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Geordie Wood, “Keeping Some Skin in the Game”
Le1f (photo by Geordie Wood) I have been impressed by the high quality of the photography in The Fader for a long time, but never so much as in the last couple of years. This is roughly the amount of...
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Tensions Rise as Protesters Disrupt Thailand's Elections
Image via. The administration of Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has faced protests since October 2013. The protesters claim the administration has bought votes, and these activists...
View ArticleVICE Special: Jason Kelce Wore Google Glass and Watched Molly Schuyler Eat...
This morning, we had Eagles Center Jason Kelce wear Google Glass as he competed in Sportsradio 94WIP's 22nd annual Wing Bowl, the Super Bowl of eating contests. In the first round, Jason ate 65 wings...
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The Book Report : The Adorable, Cute, and Racist Parties of Dame Curtsey
Image via. The Book Report is a series that promises to deliver exactly what it promises: reports on books by the people who’ve read them. Catch evenings of live, in-person Book Reports that will...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Help Mosaic Man Finish His Mosaic Trail
For this week's Mahal, the Lower East Side's Clayton Patterson introduced me to Jim Power, the legendary Mosaic Man. Over the last 25 years, the Mosaic Man has been creating the Mosaic Trail, a series...
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Comics: There's Only One Me
Want to see more comics by Daniel? Check out his website. Previously - Sleep Hole
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Porn Star Heidi Van Horny Is Having Sex with 23 Men to Celebrate Her 23rd...
Most people celebrate their birthdays with close friends and cake, but French Canadian porn star and college student Heidi Van Horny isn’t like most people—instead of having a party for her 23rd...
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The Man Who Received Plastic Surgery to Look Like Justin Bieber Is More Sane...
The cover of Toby Sheldon's new single, “Justified (featuring Adam Barta).” Toby Sheldon spent $100,000 on plastic surgery to look like Justin Bieber, but the smart and articulate 33-year-old is,...
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All Bad News Considered: Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead in His Apartment...
Image via. This morning, Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead at the age of 46 in his Manhattan apartment. All signs are pointing towards a heroin overdose as being the cause of death, but verified...
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Weediquette: There's Something About BIll
Rowhouses in South Philly. Image via. I’ve gotten along with nearly every person I’ve ever lived with and not always because we share the same habits. If they smoked weed, odds are they hung out with...
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