The VICE Reader: An Excerpt from 'New Orleans: The Underground Guide'
This month a horde of out-of-towners will descend on New Orleans for New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. JazzFest celebrates traditional Louisiana culture and heritage and showcases some...
View ArticleVICE News: The Sunflower Revolt: Protests in Taiwan
The Republic of China, or Taiwan as it is better known, has been independent from mainland China for over half a century, but China claims the island as its territory and has a stated aim of...
View ArticleWhy Are Adults Obsessed with 'Wee Sing,' a Low-Budget Direct-to-Video...
Film stills courtesy of YouTube When I was 16, my friend Jessica and I smoked in her basement in Dix Hills, New York as we watched a VHS tape of our favorite childhood movie, the 1989 children’s...
View ArticleVICE News: American Jihadist
In January 2013, American Eric Harroun traveled to Syria to fight against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. He would wind up arrested by the FBI on terrorism-related charges. This is Eric's story in his...
View ArticleI Was High on Amphetamines When I Served the Original Cast of 'Willy Wonka &...
I Was High on Amphetamines When I Served the Original Cast of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'
View ArticleUkraine Cracked Down on Pro-Russian Activists This Weekend
Ukraine Cracked Down on Pro-Russian Activists This Weekend
View ArticleWeediquette: Murphy the Heroic Dog
Photo courtesy of Fotopedia Right when I started college, I formed a permanent friendship with a few guys from my dorm. We rarely added people to our group because we thoroughly entertained each...
View ArticleThe Fake Town Where London Cops Train for Riots
This series was shot at the Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Center in Gravesend, Kent, a mock town that has been built purely so that young police officers can run around it, learning how to...
View ArticleNobody Knows How Many Unexploded Bombs Are Hidden Under Berlin
The Reichstag after the Allied bombing of Berlin (Photo via) In the thick of WWII, Allied pilots dropped some 2 million tons (estimates vary) of bombs on German soil. Most of the bombs exploded, but...
View ArticleWheat Isn’t the Reason Why You Can’t Stop Farting
Wheat Isn’t the Reason Why You Can’t Stop Farting
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Fresh Off the Boat: Chengdu - Part 3
In the season two finale, Eddie learns the subtleties of Sichuan cooking from a Master chef Yu, visits the sculpture factory of artist Deng Le, and climbs into a treehouse parlor to discover an...
View ArticleFormer Miami Heat Center Rony Seikaly Is a Real DJ
Former Miami Heat Center Rony Seikaly Is a Real DJ
View ArticleDon't Pay Your Taxes
War tax resisters protest in New York City in April, 2013. Photo via Flickr user The All-Nite Images Conservatives like to think of April 15—Tax Day—as the date when hard-working citizens hand over...
View ArticleLooking at the Tragicomedy of Canadian Native-White Relations with Thomas King
Thomas King, one of CanLit's most celebrated literary figures. Photo via Lorenz Calcagno. Thomas King is dangerous. The threat he poses isn’t, however, the result of his six-foot-six, 250-pound frame....
View ArticleHere’s Why Russia and Canada Are Clamouring for the Arctic
Canadian icebreaker ship Louis St. Laurent, Beaufort Sea. Photo via Paul Nicklen/National Geographic stock/WWF Canada. It’s a frozen, white, endless landscape for nine months of the year, with...
View ArticleVICE News: Racial Injustice in Milwaukee
On December 14, 2012, a young black high school student named Corey Stingley was aggressively restrained after he tried to shoplift alcohol from a store in West Allis, Wisconsin. Three white men held...
View ArticleVICE News: Love, Serve, Surrender: An Alleged Pedophile's Perfect Scam
Hippie guru Jay Ram was hailed as a public hero for fostering, adopting, and caring for dozens of boys that had nowhere else to go. But years later, a new picture has emerged. Several of his sons have...
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