VICE Premiere: Jessie Andrews, Our Favorite Porn Star, Remixed Duke Dumont
Jessie Andrews, Our Favorite Porn Star, Remixed Duke Dumont
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Komp-laintDept.Nic Refn and Ryan Gosling Driven… to Distraction
This is one fucked-up movie. There's no other way to say it, really. As fans of director Nicolas Refn and his alter ego Ryan Gosling have surely heard by now, their follow-up to Drive was pretty badly...
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Neither Big nor Easy: My Elementary Schoolers Are Terrific Music Critics
The author's students pose with a Michael Jackson impersonator, the rapper Lucky Lou, and their finished book. Since Katrina hit New Orleans, I’ve been teaching English after school in some truly...
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Don't Oversimplify Canada's Prostitution Debate
Photos from a sex workers demonstration in Montreal this past weekend, by Joel Balsam. I always thought legalizing prostitution was the right thing to do. It would bring everything out into the open,...
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There's a Video Game Church (and It's Totally Lame)
Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete The E3 video game expo is a yearly celebration of the multi-billion dollar gaming industry. It’s also super fucking boring. As the largest video game trade expo in the...
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Our TV Show Is Coming Back for Round II
Good afternoon, ladies and germs. We'd just like to borrow your attentions for a moment to let you know our TV show, VICE, has been renewed for a second season on HBO. It took a lot of work, some of...
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VICE Loves Magnum: There's More to Stuart Franklin Than the Most Famous Photo...
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Riots. 1985. Magnum is probably the most famous photo agency in the world. Even if you haven't heard of it, chances are you're familiar with its images, be they Robert...
View ArticleTim Pool Live Streaming from Istanbul
Journalist Tim Pool is streaming live from Istanbul today where anti-government protests have been ongoing since last Friday. What began as a campaign against the city's plans to construct a mall in...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to roll our eyes at some people who are scared of the world: Cry-Baby #1: Holy Trinity School (via) The incident: A school found out that one of their employees was in an...
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Meet the Nieratkos: A Quicky with Farrah Abraham and Chris Nieratko
I am no longer a hoarder. As a child I amassed thousands of comic books. In my teenage years it was Star Wars toys. In my 20s I began seeking out and buying up old, classic skateboards. Then I turned...
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VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'The Rambler'
When I heard the title The Rambler, Calvin Reeder’s 2008 short film, my mind shot to the familiars: Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Davy Crockett. I thought of someone who braved new frontiers and...
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Jailbait
Artwork by Marilyn Minter S he met Jack at a party her stepmom was throwing for her dad. She was sitting alone in the corner, bored, when Jack sat next to her. He was wearing a suit without a tie and...
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We Spoke to a Sikh Soccer Player About Quebec’s Stupid Turban Ban
Photos by Harjinder Atwar. If you haven’t heard already, wearing turbans in Quebec soccer leagues is now strictly prohibited. Given that FIFA has just come out to say they truly do not give a shit...
View ArticleWatch the Season Finale of ‘VICE’ Tonight
It’s likely that the first you heard of our TV show, VICE on HBO, was when news outlets around the world reported that we took Bad-as-I-Wanna-Be NBA Hall-of-Famer Dennis Rodman to North Korea, along...
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Please Kill Me: Happy, Happy, Happy! - A Memory of Arturo Vega
Joey Ramone, Arturo Vega, and me in the studio in 1978. Photo by Tom Hearn “Really Arturo, ABBA?” I shake my head in disbelief as I enter his loft, where the Swedish rock band is blaring from the...
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A Brief History of the US Government Spying on Its Citizens
Nothing is ever new. The NSA’s monitoring of the internet and the phone records of millions of Americans surprised some people, and made the public as a whole fairly pissed off, but it’s not the first...
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This Man Was Thrown in a Somali Jail for Interviewing a Rape Victim
Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim. Photo courtesy of Abdiaziz Everyone’s talking about Somalia’s future. They’re talking up foreign business investment, they’re talking up the new government, and they’re...
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Syrian Rebels Are Getting Serious Help From a Suburban House In Ontario
A Free Syrian Army unit receiving medical supplies coordinated by the Syrian Support Group. via Facebook. Louay Sakka is a co-founder of the Syrian Support Group, which was set-up to help promote...
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I Spent the Evening at Chuck E. Cheese's, the Most Magical Place on Earth
Photos by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete I don’t deserve nice things. I don’t feel comfortable in nice places. The only time I feel safe is when I’m surrounded by desperation and mediocrity, which is why I...
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