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Success Sucks
Our guy Chris fronting the 2010 Comedy Central sitcom, Big Lake. Young dudes have a fantasy that someday they might get famous, and if they do they’ll have all sorts of money and get tons of pussy. As...
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The 40-Year-Old Pot Virgin
Jamen Shively only started smoking herb a-year-and a-half ago, but he's been making up for lost time ever since. Now an aspiring marijuana mogul, as well as a dedicated cannabis connoisseur, the...
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The Mercy Rule: The Least Important Important Thing
Photo via Flickr user Dustin This is David Roth’s last column for VICE. He’s leaving after accepting an offer to work for SB Nation. We’re bummed he’s leaving, but also excited to see what he does at...
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GMOs Aren't That Bad, But Monsanto Is the Worst
The March Against Monsanto march in Vancouver. via. If you’ve been keeping up on your current food injustices, you’ve likely heard about the recent Marches Against Monsanto—the worldwide rallies...
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This Is What Quebec Separatism Looks Like in 2013
Quebec’s separatist movement has always hit home for me. Like tens of thousands of other English speakers (known as Anglophones in these parts), my parents moved away from la belle province in the...
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Unicode Is the New Internet Gold Mine
Pim Roes with his cat. There’s a saying among expats in Hanoi: “Vietnam is the best party in the world, so long as you don’t question the party.” The threat of the hardline communist government...
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I Made a Searchable Database of Comments from Toronto's Casino Survey
The No Casino Toronto logo, from their Facebook page, that has over 16,000 fans. After an online survey was conducted in January to gauge the public's views on a Toronto casino, as part of a process...
View ArticleEdward Snowden and the PRISM Leak: A Comic
You might remember Claire Milbrath from the freakily quaint sex comics she drew for us a while ago, or maybe you even recall that gallery we ran of her photography? Either way, Claire runs Editorial...
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America’s Not-So-Secret Paranoid Underbelly
The question of whether you believe in conspiracy theories is surprisingly tricky. You may not think that the moon landing or Beyoncé’s pregnancy was fake, you may not imagine lizards lurking behind...
View ArticleWe Dug Up Chance the Rapper's Pre-'Acid Rap' Material
We Dug Up Chance the Rapper's Pre-'Acid Rap' Material
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We Watched Anti-Capitalists Try to Bring Chaos to London Yesterday
This weekend, leaders of the eight richest countries in the world are converging in Northern Ireland. There, they will pose for the cameras, make idle chit-chat about wishing they were in Dublin so...
View ArticleThe NSA's Data Collection Habits Are Trickling Down to Cops
The NSA's Data Collection Habits Are Trickling Down to Cops
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A Ghost Story
All illustrations courtesy of the Naruyama Gallery. I am sure if I had accepted a certain marriage proposal, my life might have continued in an ordinary way, but I refused that humiliation. Later when...
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A Few Impressions: The Parallel Structure in 'Strangers on a Train'
Image by Courtney Nicholas One of the strategies that Patricia Highsmith employs in her first novel, Strangers on a Train, is to bounce the narrative between two characters. As the title suggests,...
View ArticleItalica: The VICE Guide to the Venice Biennale - Part 1
Every two years since 1895, Venice has hosted the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world. Over a period of six months, the Biennale welcomes over 375,000 visitors and raises millions...
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Yaz and Yasmin Birth Control Pills May Have Killed 23 Canadians
Yasmin birth control pills. via. I’ve been on birth control for about a decade now, and when I heard that 23 women are suspected to have died from using Yasmin and Yaz pills, I was shocked. Health...
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Uncovering the "Truth" Among the Conspiracy Theorists at the 2013 Bilderberg...
Every year, the Bilderberg Group—a collection of some of the world's most powerful people—gets together to discuss how to keep on being powerful. Now, considering that the past couple weeks haven't...
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Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei: Taipei Metro
For the past couple of months, in celebration of last week's release of Tao Lin's latest novel, Taipei, we have been featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent trip...
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What Is it Like To Be Tear-Gassed in Istanbul?
Photos by Devan Wells. So I feel kind of bad. Last month, before anything went down, I came back from Istanbul all full of good news: “It’s great! Totally interesting! Cute little breakfast places!”...
View ArticleHTC Downtown Sound: Eating Burgers and Riding a Ferry with Cold Warps
It's a bittersweet thing to say that this is the very last video of our Downtown Sound series, co-presented by our good friends over at HTC Canada. We went all around the country, ate a whole bunch of...
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