Sriracha Aged in Whiskey Barrels Is Better Than the Original Sauce
When I first wrote about how I was dealing with the now-lifted sriracha ban, I got the strangest emails, tweets, and ideas on how to enjoy the sauce. Weirdly enough, too many of them involved whiskey....
View ArticleTrudeau’s Liberals Should Follow Their Own Advice and Give Poor People Money
Photo via. When the Liberal party held its policy convention in Montreal late last month, most of the actual policy got drowned out by Justin Trudeau’s empty speeches and the rapturous applause they...
View ArticleVICE News: Venezuela Rising: Dispatch Five
Yesterday in Caracas, Venezuela, thousands of citizens gathered to mark a year since the passing of the country's late president Hugo Chavez. Despite a breakdown in relations with Panama and a poor...
View ArticleLine 9’s Approval Puts Millions of People at Risk
Canadian oil flag outside of the NEB hearings. All photos via the author. It seems illogical to use the most populated stretch of Canada as a transport corridor for toxic and highly volatile fuels,...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: The Blurring of Fact and Imagination in 'Sway'
Sway, by Zachary Lazar, is a swirling and episodic novel that incorporates the Rolling Stones circa 1969, the avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil in a...
View ArticleNobody Wants to Talk About Bestiality Until Someone Fucks a Horse
Illustration by Julia Gfrörer On July 2, 2005, Kenneth Pinyan was dropped off by an unidentified man in the emergency room of the sleepy Enumclaw Community Hospital, about 25 miles outside of Tacoma,...
View ArticleHow to Turn Any Glasses into Google Glass
Google's new wearable tech device, Glass, has a lot going for it. Sure, it's ridiculously expensive and poses any number of profound ethical concerns. But it also promises to bring augmented-reality...
View ArticlePeople Who Love Guns Hate the First Smart-Gun Store
People Who Love Guns Hate the First Smart-Gun Store
View ArticleFEMEN Brings Ukrainian Politics (and Boobs) to Times Square
FEMEN in Times Square. All photos by author It was 10 AM in Times Square. Billboards’ lights were shining on the streets below and cars were honking incessently, as always, but with the exception of a...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some chumps who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Rachel Canning Photos via Facebook. The incident: A girl's parents wouldn't pay for her college...
View ArticleExcerpt from ‘Family Life’
© Akhil Sharma. Family Life will be published by W.W. Norton & Company on April 7, 2014. All iIllustrations by Armando Veve Family Life is the second novel by Akhil Sharma. His first novel, An...
View ArticleGuatemalan Farmers Are Too Poor to Protest
Protesters from the rural town of San Luis, in Petén, Guatemala, hold a sign asking the Constitutional Court to prevent the expansion of hydroelectric development at a demonstration on March 7, 2014,...
View ArticleUkrainian Revolution Awakens Totalitarian Demons
This story is from VICE News, our new news website. See more at vicenews.com. Photo by Sergei Stroitelev While attention has been focused on Russia’s occupation of Crimea, pro-Russian Ukrainians and...
View ArticleWelcome to the Bananapocalypse
Panamanian bananas infected with the Fusarium fungus, commonly known as Panama disease. Photo courtesy of environmentmove.com When Andy Warhol designed the iconic banana album cover for 1967’s The...
View ArticlePartying with One of Burma's Largest Rebel Armies
All photos by Sam Jam For two hours we've been winding through a dirt track in Thailand’s Daen Lao mountains. The driver's taking it fast, trying to avoid the six Royal Thai Army checkpoints stretched...
View ArticleMeeting Earth's Strongest Men at the Top of the World
Stefan Solvi Petursson, two-time winner of Iceland's Strongest Man competition and mental-health worker. All photos by Christo Geoghegan Iceland is an incredible country, a place like no other. A tiny...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Akhil Sharma and His New Novel, 'Family Life'
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, VICE editor Krishna Andavolu sits down with novelist Akhil Sharma. Akhil's first novel, An Obedient Father, won the...
View ArticleYakiri Rubio Killed Her Rapist in Self-Defense—Now She May Go to Prison
Yakiri behind bars Imagine that you are a 20-year-old woman walking at night to meet your friend or lover. Two men approach you on a motorcycle and say, "Get on, girl; we'll give you a ride." You tell...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 3
The blockade by Russia of Ukrainian military installations in Crimea continues. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky spoke with families of personnel barricaded inside, who complained about the...
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