Life in Brazil Isn't the Paradise Haitian Immigrants Think It Will Be
Pastor Charles preaching in his small Santa Felicidade church. Photos by Vinicius Ferreira I looked on as Pastor Charles Antiochus, a Haitian chaplain, got ready for his Sunday sermon. His small...
View ArticleVICE News: Lebanon's Hash Farm Wars
Cannabis cultivation in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley is an ancient practice that dates back to the beginning of recorded history. During the Lebanese civil war between 1975-1990, it provided funding for...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 6
In part six, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky travels to the Kherson region of mainland Ukraine to both the Ukrainian and Russian checkpoints. At the Ukrainian checkpoint, Simon goes inside one...
View ArticleTreepunk
Jack Lux coat, G-Star jeans, Dr. Martens boots. PHOTOS BY JON ESTWARDS AND KEITH RACE STYLIST: LAURA MARLIN Stylist Assistant: Christian Flores Makeup: Sarah Connor Dreadlock Wigs: Lililox Hair Horns...
View ArticleWriter's Block: Pez Went into the Ocean and Never Came Back
Writer's Block is a regular column that takes a low-brow approach to profiling various street bombers and modern-day vandals with a mixture of stories, off-the-cuff interviews, and never-before-seen...
View ArticleAirlines Are Terrible at Detecting Fake and Stolen Passports
A screenshot from one of the internet's various phony passport vendors. The sudden, mysterious, and tragic disappearance of a China-bound Malaysian Airlines flight (a story that turned into a full-on...
View ArticleSouth Korea Doesn’t Do Breakfast
Breakfast time in South Korea. All photos by the author. When you grow up in England, breakfast is an event. Not in the, “Let’s do breakfast!” way that I imagine West Coast movie types emptily holler...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Cutting Through Even More Bullshit Surrounding Flight MH370
The last location of Flight MH370, as tracked by FlightRadar24.com (image via) This article is a follow-up to another published yesterday, debunking the myths perpetuated by the media in the wake of...
View ArticleRomania's Health Care System Is So Broken, Doctors Are Fleeing the Country
Last summer, my dad was in the hospital while he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. Because this is Romania, that meant that a doctor gave me a list of supplies I would need to buy for him:...
View ArticleMatthew Power, 1974–2014
Matthew Power climbs through a tunnel beneath the catacombs in Paris. Years ago, an acquaintance of mine named Brad Will was murdered in Mexico, and the best and funniest and most humane tribute to...
View ArticleGreetings from Kokomo: A Conversation with Michael Marcelle
In his series Kokomo, New York–based photographer Michael Marcelle surrealizes his family and his hometown in coastal New Jersey. By abstracting his biography and mixing personal experience with a...
View ArticleWe Are Not Men: King of New Yawk: Mike Francesa and Loud Noises
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
View ArticleOrlando's Strangest Theme Park Is All About Jesus and Jesus Related Merchandise
A scene from Passion - We Shall Behold Him Play, courtesy of Holy Land Experience. The daily Passion of the Christ play at the Holy Land Experience is clearly the meal ticket for the Christian theme...
View ArticleI Visited LA's Museum of Velvet Paintings
The Velveteria, the world's largest repository of velvet paintings, became something of a counterculture tourist attraction when it opened in Portland in 2005. The museum, which has relocated to Los...
View ArticleSpaceX Wants to Send a Positively Massive Rocket to Mars
SpaceX Wants to Send a Positively Massive Rocket to Mars
View ArticleConservatives Have a Terrifying Vision of America's Future
Star Wars characters promoting a book about taxes at CPAC, naturally Another Conservative Political Action Conference has come again, leaving us another straw-poll win for Rand Paul and a fresh set of...
View ArticleWe Checked in with Chuggo to See How He Was Doing in Jail
We Checked in with Chuggo to See How He Was Doing in Jail
View ArticleI Met Rob Ford... and Wanted to Make Sweet Love to Him
Illustration by Kyle Norris Rain in Los Angeles means more than impending mudslides. People tend to view even minor showers either as biblical disasters or as an excuse to stay in, get high, and...
View ArticleThere's an Ocean Deep Inside the Earth
This story came from Motherboard, our tech website. Read more at Motherboard.tv. Ringwoodite was found within this tiny brown diamond. Image: Richard Siemens/University of Alberta In what sounds like...
View ArticleA Christian Group Called 'Dead Raising Team' Wants to Resurrect You
Screencap via Deadraiser trailer An Evangelical group called the Dead Raising Team (DRT) wants to resurrect your dead. They claim responsibility for 11 successful resurrections through the power of...
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