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Joe Silveira's Instagram Phone Photography Turns the Mundane Into the...
In this day and age, if someone tells you that the internet is a "new" thing for them, you tend to put them in the same camp as the insufferable "I don't own a TV" humblebraggarts of yore unless...
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Training Burmese Refugees for Western Living
Thailand’s largest refugee camp, Mae La, is a dense, overcrowded city of over 43,000 people on the country’s border with Burma. Bamboo huts sprawl over hills, their dirt-floor interiors containing few...
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Unholy Alliance
Photo by Tim Freccia In September 1983, Riek Machar and his associates discovered a powerful ally: Muammar Qaddafi. Over the course of his rule, Qaddafi, a die-hard nationalist, supported numerous...
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I Was Sexually Assaulted in Palestine and Israel
The author in Israel in 2011 In the summer of 2011, as a 20-year-old working for a Palestinian news agency, I went to see one of the famous protests at the small village of Bil’in. These...
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Is New York Serious This Time About Legalizing Medical Marijuana?
A recent pro-legalization event in Union Square, Manhattan. Photo via Flickr user Joe Mazzola New Yorkers think of themselves as the most socially tolerant, forward-thinking people on Earth, but when...
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RIP, Phrosties
Chuck "Buzzkill" Schumer's crusade against Phrosties has already driven the underground slushy delivery service out of business. Photo via Flickr user maisa_nyc First he came for our Four Loko, and...
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The VICE Guide to Raving
Photo by Alex Patterson Everyone's a raver now. “Guitar music is dead” is the kind of thing your dad says—that’s how dead it is. Now, it’s all beats and bells and whistles. The future you glimpsed in...
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In Defense of Chain Restaurants
My intense love of chain restaurants comes from a pure place, wholly devoid of irony. Some of my happiest childhood memories are of patronizing the Red Lobster in the parking lot of the Salinas,...
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Remembering Lac-Mégantic Before the Blast
A graveyard roughly one kilometer north west of the contamination zone. There were several graves buried in 2013, though none made mention of the train derailment. From the graveyard the blast zone...
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Canadians Are Doing Very Cool Shit to Save the Lives of Moms and Babies...
Photo via Flickr user gchallenges. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s three-day global summit on maternal and newborn health, which kicked off yesterday in Toronto, is bringing together major players in...
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VICE Premiere: World's Fair Drops the New Track "Uh Huh" and Hits the Road...
Considering how ill they are, the dudes of the Queens hip-hop collective World's Fair are very down-to-Earth. They show love to all their fans no matter the time or day and break bread with anyone...
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Legendary Journalist Sebastian Junger Is (Almost) Done Covering Wars
Sebastian Junger in Korengal. Photo by Tim Hetherington Sebastian Junger knows what war is. The journalist, who rose to fame in 1997 with his best-selling book The Perfect Storm, spent months in...
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A Few Impressions: My Friend, Jonah
I speak of the Apocalypse of Jonah Hill. It’s one that is particularly enjoyable. Jonah is a person who is so damn entertaining, a lovable mensch who embodies so much and has so much more to give. So...
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Does Anyone Care That One Direction Was Caught Smoking Weed?
Photo by Jake Lewis Shock isn't the currency it used to be. There was a time when it was involuntary, like bruising after getting punched; you saw something shocking and you were shocked—it was...
View ArticleVICE News: The Rise of Sweden's Far-Left Militants
Ultra-nationalist political parties scored unprecedented victories at the European elections, making the rise of the far right in Europe impossible to ignore. Many of these groups, some of which are...
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What Happens When a Men’s Rights Organization Throws a Music Festival in...
Never underestimate the ignorance of men’s rights-types. When I asked Toronto musician and recording studio owner Gene Hughes, organizer of the freshly canceled Equality Day music festival at Toronto...
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Canada’s Refusal to Allow Ugandan LGBT Activists into the Country Speaks to a...
Photo via WikiMedia Commons. A contingent of Ugandan LGBT activists were recently denied visitor visas to attend World Pride 2014, which will be held in Toronto this summer. The move comes as a...
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California Has Realized That Sex Offender Registries Don't Work
Photo via Flickr User Paul Bonke Justesen The California Sex Offender Management Board, which oversees California's sex offender registration laws announced last week that the database is too big, and...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1:Tatyana Granada Screencaps via CTV Calgary The incident: A woman was sent to prison for three years...
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Maya Angelou Is the Reason We Need International Whores’ Day
Photo via Flickr user LynRDavis Maya Angelou was a prostitute, and no one talks about it. Angelou, who died Wednesday at age 86, is most famous for her memoirs, poetry, and contributions to the Civil...
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