Vito Fun's Spring 2013 Photo Dump
Now that summer is in full swing, it's easy to forget what it was like to not to have massive pit stains that spread to your entire shirt after 30 seconds outside in the sun. Luckily, our resident...
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Bell Media and Astral's Merger Is Going to Make Canadian Media Even Worse
Their empire extends much further than payphones. via. The often drab landscape of Canadian media changed in a big way on Friday, after Bell Media purchased Astral Media in a deal worth $3.2 billion....
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This Slaughterhouse Mural Is Really, Really Creepy
Photos by Nate Miller Some tours of LA stop in a sketchy industrial area called Vernon to show people the bucolic murals on the walls of a Farmer John pork-processing compound called Clougherty...
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The Egyptian Army Massacred 51 Pro-Morsi Supporters
The Egyptian army gunned down more than 50 supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi early Monday morning in Cairo. More than 300 people sustained injuries as well, in the latest, bloodiest, and...
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The Trials and Tribulations of Building a Skatepark in India
Photos by Jonathan Mehring At this stage in skating’s short but illustrious history, it’s easy to assume that kids in every corner of the globe have become as enamored with it as we have in the West....
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The ‘LBM Dispatch’ Brings the Good News
Boulder, Colo. — The specter of John Denver dogged the preparations for our Colorado trip, but I was hoping like hell we would be able to avoid both his music and his legacy. This, however, turned out...
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Hashish Could Be Killing the Babies of Afghanistan's Carpet Loomers
Like most women in Afghanistan’s Qalizal District, Bebehaja’s life is told on the strings of a carpet loom. It’s a vocational inheritance of women of Turkmen heritage, who begin as early as seven and...
View ArticleMexicalia: Oaxaca's Third Gender
Every November a celebration known as the Vigil of the Authentic Intrepid Searchers of Danger takes place in the city of Juchitan, Oaxaca, in Mexico. In this community of Zapotec indigenous people,...
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New York State of Mind: Action Bronson and Harry Fraud Passed Out Weed at the...
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
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The 2013 Photo Issue Is Here!
Cover by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari The annual VICE Photo Issue is a cultural barometer that has been used by historians since the age of Talbot to determine which artists are on the...
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We Spoke to a Social Engineer About How He Hacks People and Infiltrates...
How most people imagine hacking... From 'Hackers.' via Flickr. A lot of people think of hacking as a process whereby some greasy nerd clacks away on a keyboard so much that they end up gaining access...
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Partying in a 14th Century Czech Castle
A few weekend’s ago was the summer solstice—high time to shed your seasonal depression and leave the apartment—so I journeyed forth to attend Silver Rocket Summa Summa, an annual music event thrown by...
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Here Be Dragons: Old People Need to Stop Telling Us That the Internet Is...
Baroness Susan Greenfield. (Photo via) Baroness Susan Greenfield, a controversial neuroscientist, has an idea. It’s been hard to pin down exactly what that idea is, because rather than publishing a...
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Blood Sacrifice in Sumba
A Pasola warrior about to throw his spear at a fighter from a rival clan. The spears may be blunt these days, but they do occasionally kill fighters and spectators. Sumba is an island the size of...
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I Went to a Nightclub for the First Time Ever
Photos by Nate Miller This past weekend, I went on an organized club crawl of Hollywood, California. I’d never been to “the club” before. Or any club, actually. Something you probably gathered from...
View ArticleManitoba’s Countryfest Is Heaven If You’re A White, Drunk Man
Every year, for four days at the end of June, Dauphin, Manitoba becomes a disgusting mess of mud, blood, beer, and world-class country music. Branded as a family friendly affair, there is an unseemly...
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75% of the World's Mining Companies Are Based in Canada
This is what the inside of a mine looks like. via Flickr. While working on a piece I wrote last month about a Canadian gold mine being shut down by protesters in Kyrgyzstan, I came across a statistic...
View ArticleThe Nerdy, Pimply Birth of Bay Area Thrash Metal
The Nerdy, Pimply Birth of Bay Area Thrash Metal
View ArticleMotherboard: This Is What Happens When You Launch a Slice of Pizza into Space
It's a drone! It's a solar plane! It's... a single slice of classic cheese 'za mounted to a weather balloon that's pumping EDM into the heavens? Well, of course it is. That's because when Anamanaguchi...
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