Skinema: Strapped for Teacher #03
Dir: Joey Silvera Rating: 8 evilangel.com In the four years since my eldest son was born, I’ve been eagerly awaiting my kids’ starting school so I could attend parent-teacher conferences. My mother...
View Article'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' Is One of Sundance's Best
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is one of the most unique and peculiar films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which isn’t surprising since oddball brothers David and Nathan Zeller wrote it. They...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Shanghai - Part 3
In part three of Fresh Off the Boat - Shanghai, Eddie spends his final day eating some quality breakfast dumplings, going undercover at a bootleg mall, and enjoying classic Chinese-American food in...
View ArticleI Went to LA for the Grammys and This Is What Happened
I Went to LA for the Grammys and This Is What Happened
View ArticleWe Tracked Down Zanta
A few years ago, Zanta was the unofficial push-up king of Toronto. Photo via. In December of last year, I walked into Jet Fuel Coffee and found it decorated from top to bottom with drawings of a...
View ArticleThe King of the Pickpockets
José, a.k.a. "the Snail," a.k.a. the "king of the pickpockets," stands near the soup kitchen where he now works. Photos by Alejandro Bringas The Snail is the best pickpocket in Ciudad Juárez. He's...
View ArticlePhilip Seymour Hoffman Was Just as Lonely as You
Image by Marta Parszeniew In the theater, the parts an actor plays mark out his life. Today’s fresh-faced Hamlet will be tomorrow’s age-ravaged Lear. If old thesps are fond of telling stories, well,...
View ArticleSilicone Love: Davecat’s Life with a Synthetic Wife and Mistress
Photos by Roc Morin Davecat was at the door before the postman even had a chance to knock. He dragged the massive wooden crate into his living room and drew the blinds. “She was everything I dreamed...
View ArticleWill Elizabeth Warren Purge American Politics of Corruption?
Elizabeth Warren at a campaign rally in Auburn, Massachusetts, in November 2012. Photo via Flickr user Tim Pierce On its surface, the scene resembled an evangelical rally, the pews loaded with elderly...
View ArticleThe US Government Closes in on Bitcoin, and Some Bitcoiners Are Smiling
The US Government Closes in on Bitcoin, and Some Bitcoiners Are Smiling
View ArticleAustralia Has Declared War On Sharks
Image via There have been seven fatal shark attacks in Western Australia over the past three years. That's a sizable increase on previous years—two, rather than one per year—and a lot of people think...
View ArticleLady Business: Amazon Sold a Date Rape Guide and the Conservatives Want...
Women are the only group expected to totter around in shoes with pointy sticks affixed to the bottom, literally just waiting to break our necks. Photo via. Breaking news: if you’re the proud possessor...
View ArticleVICE News: Warlords of Tripoli - Part 1
War in Syria is dragging neighboring Lebanon to the edge of the abyss. Nowhere is the growing chaos more stark than in the second city of Tripoli. Sunni militants aligned with the Syrian rebels clash...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Legalize Heroin!
Photo via Flickr user Karen Neoh When people talk about ending the drug war, they usually mean “no one should go to prison for marijuana.” There's no doubt the public has shifted its collective...
View ArticleBangkok Remains a City in Violent Crisis
On the eve of Thailand’s general election, a firefight broke out between government supporters and anti-government protesters at an intersection not far from the city centre. It involved handguns,...
View ArticleThe Only Good Super Bowl Ad Didn't Air
Doritos - “Finger Cleaner” The tank of creativity that traditionally fuels Super Bowl ads was running on fumes last night. The lazy, unimaginative spots were too numerous to delve into here, so let's...
View ArticleZombie Parades and Muslim Prayer Habits Are Being Used to Defend Quebec’s...
Screencap from a supposedly serious assembly, via. Quebec’s notorious Charter of Values just finished up its third week in the wrestling ring of the National Assembly, where public hearings have been...
View ArticleMossless in America: Morgan Ashcom
Mossless in America is a new column featuring interviews with documentary photographers. The series is produced in partnership with Mossless magazine, an experimental photography publication run by...
View ArticleVICE Special: Apocalypse, Man - Part 4
In the fourth part of Apocalypse, Man, we talk about climate change, industrial farming, GMOs, Monsanto, and finding a new way to live in the face of the end of the world. Warning: Contains images...
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