This Man Replaced Food with Beer for Lent
Chris Schryer, with his key dietary partner. All photos via Facebook. As a nice Jewish girl, I got to watch my practicing Christian friends give up goodies for Lent during my youth. It was usually the...
View ArticleVICE News: The Devil Tried to Divide Us - Full Length
The Central African Republic's capital of Bangui has seen its Muslim population drop from 130,000 to under 1,000 during the past few months. Over the past year, thousands across CAR have been killed,...
View ArticleHow I Conquered My Fear of Strip Karaoke
All photos courtesy of Alana La Rose Dancoste. Strip Karaoke, aka Bareoke, is just what it sounds like: you choose a song from the songbook, go up on stage, and perform a striptease while you sing....
View ArticleE-Cigarette Juice Poisoned Another Kid
Screencap via Mankato Local CBS News. Thumbnail via Flickr User Lauri Rantala The four-year-old son of an Oklahoma City woman named Ren Gaulrapp recently got into her supply of e-ciagrette juice and...
View ArticleWhy the 'Cock in a Sock' Thing Is Vain Bullshit
#cockinasock for @checkemlads testicular cancer awareness !screen shot of donation will follow as it's on my phone pic.twitter.com/zwX0yRMOfn — Calum Best Official (@CalumBest) March 24, 2014 Above:...
View ArticleWhy Is the Secret Service So Drunk All the Time?
Some Secret Service agents in uniform who are not drunk. Photo via Flickr user Edward Kimmel Among the many indignities visited upon America’s first black president, we can now add one more: His...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: There's No Such Thing as 'Selfie Addiction'
Mr Pimp Goodgame, king of the Instagram selfie Recently, the assembled hacks at the Sunday Mirror’s headquarters were deciding how best to cover the story of Danny Bowman, a teenager diagnosed with...
View ArticleAfghans Who Helped Canadian Forces Are Being Left Behind
Aziz. All photos via Martin Forgues. An unwritten rule of war states that no soldier shall be left behind. It seems that the rule doesn’t apply to interpreters and other Afghan civilian workers whom,...
View ArticleEating Is Bad for Your Soul
Jains meditating. Photo via Wiki Commons In prehistoric times, humans had to hunt for dinner with big rocks—or run away from it when it didn’t die off—if they wanted to survive another day....
View ArticleVICE Loves Magnum: How Photographer David Hurn Captures Sublime Moments in...
Arizona, 1980. An outdoor fitness group in the retirement community of Sun City does exercises early in the morning. The oldest participant was a 94-year-old who had run a 50-second hundred meters in...
View ArticleMeet the Nieratkos: Twelve Things 'Noah' Got Wrong
As a Catholic school student for nine and half years and an altar boy for the first half of those years, I know a thing or two about the best-selling work of fiction known as the Bible. And just like...
View ArticleThe Insane Rage of College Basketball Coaches
UNC coach Roy Williams showing displeasure at a game in 2007. Photo via Flickr user kevin813 The NCAA basketball tournament isn’t quite the “One Shining Moment” montage CBS would have you believe it...
View ArticleThe North Korean Haircut Mandate Is Totally on Brand
Photo via Flickr User petersnoopy Kim Jong-un has reportedly issued a mandate in North Korea that all adult men must now have the same haircut as he has, reinforcing that uniquely North Korean brand...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Broadway, Baby
So you want to know what it’s like to put up a play on Broadway? I’ll tell ya. But, I should note, the way a classic play is put on (specifically John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, in which I am...
View ArticleWhat Actually Happens to Donated Clothes?
For Adam Baruchowitz, every t-shirt tells a story—whether or not he wants to hear it. “People want to explain to you every item, like ‘this is the shirt I lost my virginity in,’” said the 41-year-old...
View ArticleThe One Person Young Thug Follows on Instagram Tried to Fly Me to Dubai in...
The One Person Young Thug Follows on Instagram Tried to Fly Me to Dubai in Exchange for Sex
View ArticleTuning the Human Instrument
All photos by Elizabeth Renstrom New age music: a genre despised and misunderstood by untold numbers of music fans. Its time has finally come. Douglas McGowan’s 2013 compilation record, I Am the...
View ArticleState Senator’s Arrest Reveals Alleged Ties to Chinese Gangster Underground...
State Senator’s Arrest Reveals Alleged Ties to Chinese Gangster Underground Society
View ArticleI'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Life'
It’s strange, I only think about the big ideas when I’m down in the dumps or high on some drug. I'm never just eating pasta at dinner and thinking what does it all mean? If that was the case, it’d be...
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