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This Week in Racism: A Mexican American Child Sings the National Anthem,...
Photo by Nate Miller A few days ago, I considered taking a week off from this column. I mean, there has to be at least one week where nothing blatantly, horribly racist happens, right? You’d think...
View ArticleOh, the Memories - Photos from Our Trip to North Korea
If you were alive back in March, chances are you heard about our little adventure to North Korea with Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters. The news spread around the world like an exceptionally...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Tim Freccia Discusses Life in Conflict Zones
The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly unedited discussion in which we go inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we come across. This week, host Reihan Salam talks...
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Happy Father’s Day, You Degenerate Old Farm Animal
Mother’s Day was easy. No problem. Flowers, phone call, and card that communicated a general sense of filial appreciation… it was all pretty simple. The vast machinery of the holiday industry was...
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Alex and Allyson Grey's Visionary Art Temple, Entheon, Will Be Built
Alex Grey just hit the crowd-sourced lottery. The king of visionary art will be building the “sanctuary” for his trippy, visual-laced spiritual paintings and structures that he calls the Entheon. His...
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The Greek Government Tried and Failed to Close Their PBS
Protesters gathering outside the ERT building in Athens. On Tuesday, it was announced that the ERT—Greece's public television network—would be shut down by Antonis Samaras' New Democracy government...
View ArticleSao Paulo Is Burning
During the Brazilian National Free Fare Fight Day in 2012, a mass demonstration against the rising cost of public transportation, the Movement for the Free Pass (MPL) in São Paulo warned that if...
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Why Are the British Obsessed with Sheds?
The finalist for Shed of the Year from the Workshop/Studio category and owner Luke Hollingsworth. All photos via readersheds.co.uk. Remember when you were a kid and you went to your friend’s house and...
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Weediquette: Getting Chased by the Cops
Photo by Scott Davidson, via Flickr I like to think of myself as a fairly responsible pothead. I keep my blazing in the street to a minimum, I’ll go to lengths to hide it when kids suddenly appear in...
View ArticleAmid the Chaos of Taksim Square
Screams gave way to the quiet of early morning on June 11th. After many days of cheerful protest, the Istanbul police began the “clearance” of Taksim Square. Protestors anticipated such a strike, gas...
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Toppling a Delicate World
Illustrations by Nick Gazin Bharati Mirchandani’s face hurt from smiling. She was standing under a spotlight, arms locked with her fiancé’s, at the Bukhara Grill and Restaurant. Waiters in gimmicky...
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The Mare
Photos by Sorryimworking I met Velveteen when I was 45, but I felt still young. I looked young too. This is probably because I had not done many of the things most people of that age have done: I’d...
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The Battle for the Heart of Istanbul Is Raging On
Early on Saturday night, the protest village of tents and flags that had been set up in Istanbul's Gezi Park was razed, and its inhabitants emphatically tear-gassed and cleared, at the behest of...
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We Interviewed Flag, the Keith Morris Version of Black Flag
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The IMF's Admission That Austerity Has Failed Is Going to Make the G8 Pretty...
David Cameron at the G8 in Canada. (Image via) Today, David Cameron will chair the G8 in Northern Ireland. While he's there, he'll be dodging awkward questions about why Britain spied on many of its...
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Medical Weed Growers Are Ready to Fight the Conservatives
Mik Mann, taking his medicine. If you haven’t heard of marijuana activist and grower Mik Mann he’s the articulate hippie that looks like Frank Zappa we interviewed for our doc B.C. Bud. He lives out...
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James "Whitey" Bulger Isn't Very Popular in His Hometown
James "Whitey" Bulger's 1953 mug shot. The reformed drug dealer and I are sitting in his silver Lexus, across the street from the building where he says he saw James “Whitey” Bulger beat a guy with a...
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There's a Plan to Bury Nuclear Waste a Kilometre Away from Lake Huron
Illustration by Alex Sheriff. Choosing a site to permanently store Canada’s nuclear waste is all about finding the community that is most willing to host it. Ontario Power Generation and the federal...
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The Mayor of Montreal Is in Handcuffs
Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum. Not pictured: a police raid. via. So. The mayor of Montreal has been arrested. Investigators with UPAC, the provincial anti-corruption squad, roused Michael Applebaum...
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