VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: Unabashedly Weird SXSW Shorts
I flew to Austin, Texas this year for the 20th annual SXSW Film Festival to party hardy and watch short movies. I'm pretty excited now that the jury winners have have been announced. Unfortunately,...
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Ernesto, 16, works 65 hours a week harvesting crops. Here, he performs “cleanup” work at an almond grove in Madera, California. All photos by Matt Black. Reporting for this story was generously...
View ArticleWe Spoke with the Euromaidan Activist Who Was Forced to Flee Crimea
As the head of the Euromaidan movement in the Crimean city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, Viktor Neganov led about 100 Ukrainians in his hometown to call for an end to corruption. At one protest, a crowd of...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 13
Some people might say that two weeks isn't enough time to prepare for referendum to separating from the country that you've been a part of for the last 70 years. But that's not what a reported 95.5...
View ArticleVICE News: Free Derry: The IRA Drug War
In February 2014, letter bombs were sent to nine British military recruitment offices over the course of three days. Londonderry postmarks, a coded message sent to a Northern Irish newspaper, and...
View ArticleCanadians Everywhere Are Protesting Against Harper's Apathy Towards Missing...
Carrie and Zoong, among other protesters. All photos by the author. Last Wednesday, a group made up almost entirely of aboriginal mothers, conducted their second railway blockade in association with...
View ArticleA UFO Pleasure Cult Is Fixing Vaginas in Africa
If you’re the kind of person who keeps up with UFO spiritualists, you’ll know Raëlians as the group who believe that Earth was created by a vastly superior alien civilization. According to its French...
View ArticleVICE News: Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor - Full Length
Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers are part of a business strategy to keep costs down and profits high. From mega-retailers to mom-and-pop shops,...
View ArticleWhat's It Really Like to Have Sex with an Amsterdam Prostitute?
Illustrations by Craig 'Questions' Scott I recently stumbled upon a website called the Amsterdam Diaries. Initially, it just seemed to be a chronicle of one British guy's visits to the city's...
View ArticlePurim in Hasidic Williamsburg
Baruch Herzfeld is a Brooklynite who left the Hasidic community a long time ago. This is what he has to say about Purim in Williamsburg, Brookyln: Purim, the little-known holiday that is the Jewish...
View ArticleGavin Haynes' Sleepless Nights: Noel Edmonds Actually Wants to Buy the BBC
Screengrab via BBC Noel Edmonds appeared on Newsnight last night with a ransom note for British culture. His Shatner’s bassoon visibly pulsating on the back of his neck, Noel explained that unless we...
View ArticleThe Future of Philadelphia’s Terrible Cheesesteak Tradition Is Doomed
A Philly cheesesteak from Geno's. All photos by the author The downfall of the United States is not upon us just yet. Though I am convinced that the yuppification of American culture portends our end...
View ArticleDeath’s Messenger: One Soldier’s Job Delivering the Worst News Imaginable
Photo courtest of Richard Siemion “There’s still a war going on,” Captain Richard Siemion began. “There are still people dying—not as many as before—but it’s still happening. And when it does, the...
View ArticleDrug Deaths Shut Down Asia's Biggest EDM Festival
Drug Deaths Shut Down Asia's Biggest EDM Festival
View ArticleChina's Baby Hatches Are Getting Clogged
Photo via Flickr user Azwari Nugara Back in January of this year, Guangzhou, a megalopolis in southern China, opened China's 20th "baby safety island," a place where people could safely deposit their...
View ArticleThink You Can Write Better Ads Than Convicted Felons?
Image via Wikimedia Commons Ad agencies will often do borderline-criminal things in their effort to sell you a product. For instance, in 1990 a now-infamous Volvo ad purported to show that even a...
View ArticlePaving Native Land to Put Up a Tourist Park
Modesto Cruz Batista, a Tarahumara man who guided me to Mogotavo, points across the ridges of the Copper Canyon. Photos by Pavel Tarin and Weston Phippen Last year, in February, about 20 Tarahumara...
View ArticleLil' Thinks: Loss
Illustration by Penelope Gazin Everyone knows the moment or month or era when life happened, all at once, and established some set point of desire or values or best-ever happiness. Flash-flooded with...
View ArticleThe Abandoned Street Couches of Los Angeles
Archaeologists have long known you can learn heaps about a culture from its trash, and the Los Angeles street couch is no exception. These artifacts say more about us than just laziness. They tell...
View ArticleThe 'World's Hottest Curry' Made Me Hallucinate
The Cinnamon Club's "Bombay Burner" Food snobs always moan about English curry. "Tikka masala doesn’t even exist in India!" they cry. And so what? Neither do social equality or traffic laws. For...
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