Canada's Spies Are Out of Control
Clever bureaucrats. Who knew? There was an alarming lack of sustained outrage when it was revealed that CSEC, Canada’s NSA, was testing out a spying program on thousands of innocent Canadian air...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: 'Praying Drunk' with Author Kyle Minor
Photo by Jennifer Percy Kyle Minor's short-story collection Praying Drunk came out Friday. I had seen the very positive reviews and the raves, so I stayed in bed to read it. When I got to the end of...
View ArticleAre Liberal Policies Failing Black People?
Tanner Colby. Image via his web site A great deal of the discourse about race in America can be broken down into two categories: (1) Boy, MLK sure was great, wasn’t he? and (2) Let’s point our fingers...
View ArticleSothern Exposure: Inside a Satanic Hoedown in the Valley of the Damned
1985 I got a gig taking pictures at a satanic hoedown in the San Fernando Valley of the Damned. All I have to do is stand upright and point and shoot. My friend Stephen does interviews, pays the tab,...
View ArticleLady Business: Men Are Scared to Sit in Classrooms with Women, and Women Are...
Something feminists should avoid, says the Internet. Photo via. Hello again, lovely readers. It’s time to go through the lady business du jour. The stories that grabbed my attention this week were...
View ArticleA Roving View of Putin's Olympics
All photos by Arthur Bondar and Oksana Yushko Flying over Sochi, we saw a beautiful panorama of the region. The Olympic Games here have been a pet project of Vladimir Putin’s since their proposal, and...
View ArticleHanging Out with the Surfers from the Volcom Pipe Pro
This past week I attended the three-day 2014 Volcom Pipe Pro—a prestigious surfing contest that takes place at the Banzai Pipeline beach on Oahu’s gorgeous North Shore, in Hawaii. Top surfers from...
View ArticleFarting Cows Blew Up a Shed with Their Gas
Photo via. Breaking news from Rasdorf, Germany: Late last month, this farming village of some 1,500 souls was literally shocked when a shed housing 90 cows spontaneously burst into flames that singed...
View ArticleShia LaBeouf Is Currently Doing Some Kind of Super Artsy Thing in Los Angeles
As you've probably heard by now, Shia LaBeouf—actor, director, and mirror to our tortured souls—is doing a piece of performance art in Los Angeles. The exhibition/performance/whatever is called...
View ArticleOFF! - "Void You Out" (OFFicial Live Video)
OFF! - "Void You Out" (OFFicial Live Video)
View ArticleGender Benders
Tableaux Vivants bra PHOTOS BY RICHARD KERN STYLIST: MIYAKO BELLIZZI Creative Director: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Photo Assistant: Colin Sussingham Stylist Assistant: Lyndsea Lamarr Makeup: James Boehmer...
View ArticleThese Maps Show Where Climate Change Will Force Species to Die
These Maps Show Where Climate Change Will Force Species to Die
View ArticleVeiled and Sexy
Photo by E.Hanazaki Photography/Getty Images In December, the University of Michigan released the results of a survey that, among other things, asked Middle Easterners what style of dress was...
View ArticleA Colorado Woman Let a Puppy Drink Milk from Her Breast
Screencap via Last week, a woman in Colorado posted a Facebook photo of a puppy drinking milk from her breast. The picture sparked an internet backlash, and she soon became a flavor-of-the-week...
View ArticleThe Man Who Is Drunk All the Time Because His Body Produces Its Own Alcohol
Matthew Hogg enjoying a glass of water with a friend Imagine if your body produced its own alcohol – pretty great, right? You'd always have a buzz on, meaning you'd be one up on most people in the...
View ArticleThe RCMP and CSIS Are Creeping on Environmentalists
Government spies, investigating people the same way you would research a prospective OKCupid date. This past weekend, I read a stack of heavily-redacted documents that are pissing off privacy...
View ArticleRIP Shirley Temple, Bassist for the Melvins
RIP Shirley Temple, Bassist for the Melvins
View ArticleThe Race to Save Elephants Being Wiped Out by Organized Crime and Jihadists
Rangers in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya. Photos by Johnnie Shand Kydd Night falls, and on a hilltop the team of armed men hunker down so that their silhouettes don't stand out against the...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - How Genes Effect Athletic Performance
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with David Epstein, senior writer at Sports Illustrated and author of The Sports Gene: Inside the...
View ArticleThe Harper Government Wants to Regulate Bitcoin
Confused old people are discussing these. Photo via. The past few weeks have not been so rosy for Bitcoin. The virtual currency’s oldest exchange, MtGox—originally a platform for trading Magic the...
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