The Derailment of the SEC – Part IV: New Allegations That a Former SEC...
Spencer Barasch in Houson in 2002, three years before he left the SEC. Photo by James Nielsen/AFP/Getty Images A law partner of a former Securities and Exchange Commission official, Spencer C....
View ArticleIs a Symmetrical Face Actually More Beautiful?
Is a Symmetrical Face Actually More Beautiful?
View ArticleWhy Cinema of Transgression Director Nick Zedd Stayed Underground
Photo of Nick Zedd by Richard Kern from 1984, courtesy of Nick Zedd and Fales Library, NYU It was a freezing Saturday night in 2004, and Nick Zedd was pushing a shopping cart full of film reels...
View ArticleI Got Drunk at the Sesame Street Gala and Met Cookie Monster
When you’re an aspiring journalist/writer/reporter/editor/media person, you’ll take whatever job comes your way. Some of those jobs are red carpet reporting at galas, movies premieres, fashion week...
View ArticleThe Prophet
The members of the White Army are defined by being Nuer and wear red headbands to avoid shooting one another. Photo by Tim Freccia Riek Machar can seem like an enlightened Westerner, with his casual...
View ArticleThis Guy Wants to Be Berlin's First Weed Van Man
Oliver on a research trip in Morocco. All photos courtesy of Oliver. The purchase of marijuana is generally prohibited in Germany, the exception being Berlin's Görlitzer Park, which has long been an...
View ArticleA Girl's Guide to Not Being a Dick This Summer
Summer is upon us—the season of saying yes to everything you’d normally reject. After-work drinks? Sure. Kissing strangers in broad daylight? Fine. Peeing in your front yard because you lost your...
View ArticleMontreal's Controversial Anti-Protest Laws Have Led to a Bunch of...
Montreal police image via VICE doc "Protesting Police Brutality in Montreal." As arrests in Montreal under controversial anti-protest laws rise, so do the attempts to challenge police authority. Two...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Sheikha
Image of Rabia Basri, a female Sufi saint, via Wikicommons In 1980, Muzaffer Ozak al-Jerrahi, the 19th Grand Sheikh of the Istanbul-based Halveti-Jerrahi Sufi Order, sat in the old Masjid al-Farah in...
View ArticleKids Telling Dirty Jokes: Season Two - Trailer
This summer, our favorite little knee-biters are back and better than ever. We pulled these pint-sized punks off Craigslist and convinced them to say some of the most crude, nasty, and downright...
View ArticleVICE News: Here's What Happens When Hackers Send a SWAT Team to Your House
In recent years, a small amount of hackers and gamers have been "Swatting"—anonymously reporting fake hostage situations, shootings, and other violent crimes so elite police units (like SWAT teams)...
View ArticleWho Needs Chefs When We Have Digital Cooking Machines?
Who Needs Chefs When We Have Digital Cooking Machines?
View ArticleTwitter Picked Up the Slack for Local Media In Moncton
Photo of alleged cop-killer, Justin Bourque (left), with a friend, a few of his weapons, and bullets scattered in front of him. Image via Facebook. A desperate manhunt for the suspected killer of...
View ArticleA Sword Fight Erupted at a Sikh Temple in India
A Sword Fight Erupted at a Sikh Temple in India
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Black People Still Love Justin Bieber
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 the most racist. –Well, folks. It's...
View ArticleCanada’s New Sex Work Laws Are Taking a Big Step Backwards
Image via WikiMedia Commons. It’s happened. The government has tabled a new law surrounding what they call “prostitution” in Canada, and it’s worse than sex workers imagined it would be. The purchase...
View ArticleMeet the Nieratkos: Some Rich Guy Paid $84,000 for Webcam Shows He Never Watched
I thought I’d heard of every fetish known to man. During my decade-long stint at the British fetish magazine Bizarre I saw shaven Barbie doll heads up asses, stretched out pee-holes, people stomping...
View ArticleA Fashion Love Letter to Those Shiny Soccer Stickers
Vintage T-shirt from Headlock Vintage, H. Samuel necklace and earrings, Gogo Phillip ring, vintage patches PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN BY FRIGHIL & GORSE STYLIST: Bridi Foden Stylist Assistant:...
View ArticlePlease Kill Me: Jonathan Richman: In Love with the Modern World
Ernie Brooks is a very likable fellow who was raised in New York and Connecticut by intellectual, liberal parents, which explains why he became a civil rights activist down South during the violent...
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