Skate Video Director Colin Read Schools Us on Lo-Fi Filmmaking
Photo by Allen Ying After a broken pelvis left him unable to skate when he was 15 years old, Colin Read began filming on a friend’s handi-cam and editing footage on whatever programs he could download...
View ArticleToronto Rapper Roney Has Been Arrested, Facing 12 Charges
Toronto Rapper Roney Has Been Arrested, Facing 12 Charges
View ArticleLong Legs, Constructivism and Eastern European Kitsch
Kiev is not a city you'd immediately associate with fashion – especially in these days of passive-aggressive war with Russia. Yet, the Ukrainian capital loves fashion enough to have two fashion weeks;...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Michael Jordan Says He Was a Racist Teenager
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST” being...
View ArticleA First Nations Community Has Blockaded Their Gulf Islands Territory Over...
Photo courtesy The Salish Sea Sentinel. The Stz'uminus (Chemainus) First Nation has enacted a blockade that spans its traditional territory in the Gulf Islands of BC. They say they’ve been let down by...
View ArticleFewer American Teens Are Getting Pregnant, and No One Knows Why
Photo via Wikimedia Commons Here’s some very good news: After two decades of steady decline, teen pregnancy rates have hit a record low in the US, plummeting in every state and across ethnic groups,...
View ArticleWeed Is About to Be Decriminalized in Our Nation's Capital
GOP Rep. John Mica assuring himself a place in the history books. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Debates about drug legalization tend to take place in exotic places like Uruguay and the state...
View ArticleVICE News: VICE News Capsule
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. This week Syrian rebels blow up an Aleppo hotel used by government soldiers, Venezuelan security forces arrest more than 200...
View ArticleMonica Lewinsky Could Have Been Paris Hilton
Photo courtesy of Flickr user waltarrrrr It may be unjust, but nobody will ever consider you classy after Bill Clinton penetrates you with a cigar and has “oral-anal contact” with you. Don’t tell that...
View ArticleHow a Power-Mad Illinois Mayor Launched a Police Crusade Against a Parody...
Jim Ardis, the mayor of Peoria On the night of April 15, police in Peoria, Illinois, raided the house of my friend Jon Daniel in response to his operating a parody Twitter account mocking Peoria mayor...
View ArticleWin 2 Tickets to See Tom Green Tonight in Toronto
Photo via Facebook. Tom Green’s singularly oddball sense of shock humour introduced the concept of trolling to millions of people around the world and left an indelible imprint on comedy, readily...
View ArticleHappy Masturbation Month! Here Are 12 Tools to Help You Bust a Nut
Painting by Kunisada Surimono. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons If you aren’t masturbating right now, you should be. May is International Masturbation Month, which means if you have been...
View Article#BringBackOurGirls Is Not Going to Stop Boko Haram
#BringBackOurGirls Is Not Going to Stop Boko Haram
View ArticleThe Week In GIFs
Yo yo yee-yah! It's Saturday and 82 degrees in New York City, which means it's time for the Week In GIFs. Catch up on what you didn't hear about this week because you were out getting drunk and being...
View ArticlePitbull Wants Miami to Become the New Silicon Valley
Pitbull Wants Miami to Become the New Silicon Valley
View ArticleWeediquette: T. Kid the Comic Book Character
This week’s Weediquette is a special treat from one of my favorite Philadelphians, a talented artist and musician named Steve Teare. I first met Steve at the M-Room (which is short for the Manhattan...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: Invasion of Ukraine - Part 36
In an effort to curb further unrest, the Ukrainian government canceled the majority of the Victory Day parades across the country. Commemorating the victory over Nazi Germany during WWII, Victory Day...
View ArticleGiving Birth Is Super Painful, so Be Nice to Your Mom This Mother's Day
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Sex seems to be the only part of the pregnancy and birth process that all mothers endorse.* Sure, there are some glowing ladies in muumuus who seem to breeze...
View ArticleThe CIA's Bro Culture Is Doing Yemen No Favors
The CIA's Bro Culture Is Doing Yemen No Favors
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