Ben Anderson Is Doing a Reddit AMA Today
Four years ago, we made a film called Inside Afghanistan with veteran war reporter Ben Anderson. Since then, we've enjoyed a harmonious, fruitful relationship that mostly involves Ben hanging out in...
View ArticleWho’s Getting Rich off of America's Prison-Industrial Complex?
Image via You likely already know how overcrowded and abusive the US prison system is, and you probably are also aware that the US has more people in prison than even China or Russia. In this age of...
View ArticleDodging Water Cannons and Sound Bombs at Israel's Catastrophe Day
I arrived in Jerusalem on Nakba Day expecting shit to get wild. But the speed with which the demonstration went from zero to fucked shocked even me, a relative veteran of the West Bank protest scene....
View ArticleVICE on HBO Outtakes: The Fat Farms of Mauritania
In Mauritania, a country crippled by food shortages, obesity is viewed as a woman's sign of wealth and prestige. To attain Mauritanian standards of beauty, many women undergo the practice of gavage,...
View ArticleRob Ford Might Be a Crack Smoker
There came a point on Thursday afternoon—after learning that Rob Ford had taken some time off from an important city council meeting to wander around a parking lot sticking ‘Rob Ford’ magnets to...
View ArticleKai, the Hatchet-Wielding Hobo Wanted for Murder, Says He Was Drugged and Raped
Caleb "Kai" Lawrence McGillvary with Jimmy Kimmel. Photo via Facebook Remember Kai? The hatchet-wielding hobo of SMASHH!! SMAAASSHHH!! SAAAMAASHHH!! fame? The guy who made headlines after stopping...
View ArticleGangsta Boo Reviews Azealia Banks, MIA, Iggy Azalea, Brooke Candy, and More
Photo by Nick Gazin Gangsta Boo is hip-hop legend. As the sole female member of the epochal Three 6 Mafia during the late 90s and early 2000s, she helped forge a space for females in hardcore rap,...
View ArticleCanadian UFO Sightings Have Doubled
via. The Canadian Ufology Survey was just released and it has revealed some pretty shocking data. The report claims that in 2012 alone, the number of UFO spotting across Canada had doubled from the...
View ArticleThe Mercy Rule: Hearing the Spurs
Photo via Flickr user Keith Allison The story of my parents’ lives can be read, or at least inferred, through their record collection. There is a long period of album purchases that suggests they were...
View ArticleTubesteak: How to Hone Your Gaydar to Perfection
Of all the gifts that God supposedly bestowed upon gay men—a dandy fashion sense, preternatural design abilities, a predilection for the word "fabulous"—the gaydar is both the handiest, and the most...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Asking New Yorkers: "How Would You Feel if Your Mayor...
Photo via Flickr user marc falardeau As you’ve probably heard by now, Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto and the hearts of young people everywhere, smokes crack, or at least there is a video that multiple...
View ArticleA New Episode of Our TV Show Is Airing Tonight
Here at the VICE HQ we have a gigantic sand timer that we reset each week to count down the time until next week's HBO show. It takes ten interns all heaving at once to flip it, and the chances of one...
View ArticleSome Photographs from the All About Pets Show
After twenty years, the All About Pets Show remains Canada's largest pet convention. Every year, this celebration of domestic animal life goes down in Mississauga's International Centre, next to the...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Former Italian Prime Minister Dressed up Strippers to...
I'm not sure if this story about Barack Obama is actually racist or just really disturbing, but we're going to run it through the This Week in Racism "Racism-o-Meter" anyway, and see what comes out....
View ArticleMeet the Malaysian Neo-Nazis Fighting for a Pure Malay Race
A couple of years ago, my friend moved out to Malaysia in search of a life where a winter wardrobe isn't a thing and you don't have to worry about stuff like moronic lad culture or seeing Lee Mack's...
View ArticleHere Is Action Bronson's New Video, Featuring Riff Raff and Some Pit Bulls
Here Is Action Bronson's New Video, Featuring Riff Raff and Some Pit Bulls
View ArticleI Tested out Three Cambodian Spiritual Practices
An entrance to a Cambodian home covered in chalk drawings of crosses and skulls to ward off evil spirits. Vitray's first memories are of the tent cities in Thailand where Cambodian refugees found...
View ArticleDogmageddon: Don't Bet on the Apocalypse
Photo via Remember those billboards that were all the rage during the summer of 2011, the ones boldly claiming the world was going to end on May 21 of that year? When that didn't come to pass, they...
View ArticleHow Are We Supposed to Know What the Government Does?
Photo via Flickr user DonkeyHotey You should probably be afraid, at least a little, of the federal government. The reason for this doesn’t have anything to do with conspiracy theories about...
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