Colombian Union Leaders Are Being Hunted by Paramilitary Groups
Oscar Orozco in the operating room after being shot in the face on January 10, 2014 Three months after being shot point-blank in the face with a tear-gas canister by riot police, union leader Oscar...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Cameras Weren’t Enough to Stop the Albuquerque Police from...
A local news report on the killing of James Boyd On March 16, two members of the Albuquerque Police Department fatally shot James Boyd, a homeless man reportedly suffering from schizophrenia. The...
View ArticleWe Spoke to the Inuit Women Behind 'Sealfies'
The attention-grabbing group Sealfie, in downtown Iqaluit, via Twitter. In a post on Ellen’s blog, the selfie-loving talk show host dramatically referred to the Canadian seal hunt as “one of the most...
View ArticleHamilton's Pharmacopeia: Getting High on HIV Medication - Part 1
In 1998, the antiretroviral drug efavirenz was approved for treatment of HIV infection. Though the drug was highly effective, patients soon began to report bizarre dreams, hallucinations, and feelings...
View ArticleI Ate a Bunch of Dead Wild Animals in the Bronx
A plate full of muskrat (left) and possum (right). All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted Last Saturday night in New York City’s northernmost borough was cold, rainy, and desolate. I was...
View ArticleStarting Tomorrow, Canadian Doctors Can Prescribe You Weed
Photo via Flickr user Matt Kowal The past few weeks have been messy for Health Canada and their clumsy medical marijuana program. The government agency that purports to look after the health of our...
View ArticleThe Armpit of the Internet: E-Cigarette Forums Are Booming, but They’re Doomed
The 1965 patent for the first e-cigarette No one really cared when, in 1963, Herbert A. Gilbert filed a patent for the first e-cigarette, which he called a “smokeless non-tobacco cigarette.” What a...
View ArticleHow the FBI Goes After Activists
Illustrations by Nick Gazin Tom Burke was driving through a sleepy part of Grand Rapids, Michigan—an empty neighborhood full of abandoned warehouses—when he first noticed the vehicle tailing him. “I...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Gangsta Boo & La Chat Featuring Mia X's "Bitchy" Music Video
We love Gangsta Boo here at VICE. She paved the way for lady MCs as the only female member of the legendary Southern rap group Three 6 Mafia. Her hard-hitting bars have always enshrined her as a sexy,...
View ArticleMossless in America: On the Road with Briner, Leavenworth, and Stewart
Mossless in America is a column featuring interviews with documentary photographers. The series is produced in partnership with Mossless magazine, an experimental photography publication run by Romke...
View ArticleThe Best Ads of 2014 You Haven’t Seen, Part 1
The vast majority of today’s ads are not good. In fact, advertising sucks more now than it has ever sucked before, which is saying something when you think back to those floating-head abominations of...
View ArticleTalking to a Swedish Crutch Fetish Model
Screen shot via Swedishcrutch.com Hey, would you like to look at healthy Swedish girls posing with crutches? Maybe because that's the kind of thing you like to masturbate to or whatever? Don't worry,...
View ArticleGetting High from Smoking Coffee Will Make You Feel Like Shit
Photos by Elizabeth Vazquez If you’re in the minority of teenagers without access to pot, you’re liable to do some pretty stupid shit to catch a buzz. Lately, the parent-fear-machine, aka the...
View ArticleHamilton's Pharmacopeia: Getting High on HIV Medication - Part 2
In 1998, the antiretroviral drug efavirenz was approved for treatment of HIV infection. Though the drug was highly effective, patients soon began to report bizarre dreams, hallucinations, and feelings...
View ArticleThis Man Has No Butt Crack
Illustration by Nicholas Gazin Most of us have some body part that we’re self-conscious about. I was born with a dangling piece of cartilage that looked like a third ear—it was cut off and now...
View ArticleHow Much Climate-Change Denial Can the Market Bear?
How Much Climate-Change Denial Can the Market Bear?
View ArticleTen Years Later, ‘The Room’ is Still The Worst Movie Ever
There's something alarming about the fact that the strangest thing in this photo is Tommy Wiseau's limp peace sign. All photos via DJ Stevie V Productions/The Room Monthly Montreal Screening Group. I...
View ArticleItaly’s New Anti-Torture Law Isn’t Quite Up to Snuff
Photo taken in the Torture Museum in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, by Orlando Crowcroft Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz once wrote that “all forms of torture are widespread among nations that have...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: Here's an Excerpt from Bob Saget's New Book, 'Dirty Daddy'
The following is an excerpt from Bob Saget's upcoming book, Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian, which will be available April 8, 2014. The length of this chapter is...
View ArticleFood-Pranking April Fools' Day
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." —An ancient prankster motto Who said that pranking has to only take place in your little sister's bedroom? In the Male Chef kitchen, my sous...
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