VICE on HBO Outtakes: Senegalese Laamb Wrestling
The most popular sport in the West African country of Senegal isn’t soccer—it’s laamb, combining Greco-Roman wrestling moves with eclectic pre-fight rituals and dances. Laamb’s appeal has skyrocketed...
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The Man With the 30-Second Memory
Henry Molaison after his high-school graduation. In 1953 Henry Molaison, a sufferer of severe epilepsy, underwent experimental brain surgery that saved his life and robbed him of it at the same time....
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Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Aaron Butler Photo via/Story via The incident: The Boy Scouts decided to start letting gay kids be scouts. The appropriate response: Nothing. The actual response: Aaron Butler, a scout...
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'Bartkira' Is the Parodic Bastard Child of the 'Simpsons' and 'Akira'
You might recognize the name James Harvey—his comics have frequently appeared on this site. James has recently taken on a bizarrely ambitious project, which he is calling Bartkira. He is having the...
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A Self-Proclaimed "Black, Hipster Juggalo" Explains Himself
Photos by Clare O'Kane I saw Insane Clown Posse perform at the Oakland Metro Opera House recently, and believe it or not, I had a good fucking time. It was nice to be around people going crazy and...
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Shut the Hell Up About My Open Relationship
I'm in an open relationship. In plain English, this means the person spooning me to sleep at night is not always my loving boyfriend of four years. Which is cool, because sometimes I'll get a text...
View ArticleGround Zero: Syria - Full Length
Last year VICE commissioned photographer and videographer Robert King to document the civil war that has been ravaging Syria for the past two years. Largely based on Aleppo, Robert's footage of the...
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So You Want to Perform in Porn
If you read that and thought, Why yes, I do want to perform in porn, this is for you. If not, please feel free to read along for potential entertainment value. Or, put the computer down, and go do...
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Privacy’s Public, Government-Sponsored Death
Photo via Flickr user Todd Huffman A couple months ago, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed an unpopular view while hosting his regular Friday-morning radio program. “You wait, in five...
View ArticleWild Things: The $wiftest Pigeon - Part 3
What is the sound of 1 million yuan flapping? While most nouveau riche happily spend their new money on shit the old money has already deemed acceptable, China's spoiled young princelings aren't...
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Nova Scotia is Dealing with Yet Another Teen Rape Case
Rehtaeh Parsons. via Facebook. We’ve heard it before: teenagers are drinking at a party, a girl is taken advantage of, someone records the whole thing, then posts it online to extend the humiliation...
View ArticleThis Woman’s Dad Was Tortured and Imprisoned
In April 2011, Bahraini human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja, then 23 years old, was in the United States when her phone rang. Back in Bahrain, a government crackdown on the massive pro-democracy...
View ArticleMeet the Underage Kids Who Showed Up to a Guns N' Roses Concert Thirteen...
Meet the Underage Kids Who Showed Up to a Guns N' Roses Concert Thirteen Hours Early
View ArticleVICE News: Istanbul Rising
On Friday, May 31, Turkish riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray into a peaceful protest held to save Gezi Park, one of the last green areas in central Istanbul. This set off the biggest civil...
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The Anonymous Member Who Broke the Steubenville Rape Case, Then Got Raided by...
He is also a rapper named ShadowRapz. Yesterday, news broke that the FBI raided the home of Deric Lostutter in April. Deric is also known as KYAnonymous, a member of the hacktivist collective...
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A New Episode of 'VICE' on HBO Premieres Tonight
Those of us who spend our lives in the edifying pursuit of bringing VICE to the world get to see the very tip of our spear—sharp and glimmering in the Friday evening moonlight—rip into America’s...
View ArticleKyle Scully's Photographs Make British Columbia Look Even More Gorgeous
When I think of the west coast, I always think about Kyle Scully's photographs. A man with very few indoor photographs, the BC greenery seems to be the perfect backdrop for his photos. Almost surreal...
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This Week in Racism: This Week in Reverse Racism
I’ve gotten a lot of complaints in the last few weeks from my loyal readers. Some of you out there seem to think that I’ve been remiss in my duties as the foremost expert on racism. That’s totally...
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