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How Kiyoshi Izumi Built the Psych Ward of the Future by Dropping Acid
Photo via He walked into a warp. As Kiyoshi "Kiyo" Izumi toured a select few of post-war Saskatchewan's aging mental hospitals, absorbing the wards' layouts and interviewing patients along the way,...
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Afghanistan's Great Wall of Bones
Everyone knows that walls are more symbolism than impenetrable brick and mortar barriers. This is especially true in Kabul, where concrete slabs and giant stone-filled wire baskets called Hesco...
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The LAPD Doesn't Want You Protesting the Trayvon Martin Verdict After Last Night
Last night, protests in Los Angeles against the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial—which had been mostly nonviolent, though there were occasional fights—turned ugly. A peaceful...
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Our Government Is Withholding Documents Concerning the Torture of Native...
A class picture from St. Paul's Indian Industrial School in Middlechurch, Manitoba. via WikiCommons. In the early 1990s an affiliation of Cochrane, Kapuskasing and James Bay’s OPP detectives were...
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A Former IRA Hunger Striker Talks About the Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
Gerard Hodgins. (Photo courtesy of Gerard Hodgins) The hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has moved beyond its 160 day. Prisoners are refusing to eat in protest against conditions in the detainment camp,...
View ArticleThousands of California Prisoners Are on Hunger Strike Right Now
According to some estimates, 30,000 prisoners in California were on hunger strike as of last week, and thousands more still are. Contacted by VICE, a spokesman for the California prison system...
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Examining the Aftermath of Lac Mégantic
The wreckage in Lac Mégantic. Photo by Jean-Francois Hamelin for VICE Canada. On Monday, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the company that owned the train that...
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The Leader of One of Mexico's Largest Drug Cartels Has Been Arrested
Nuevo Laredo is a border city in northeastern Mexico, surrounded by hills and earth burned by the sun. Thousands of trucks ride its main highway, delivering legal and illegal merchandise to the United...
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Satanists Turned the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church’s Mom Gay
The Satanic Temple, a burgeoning community of worship devoted to the Dark Lord, has performed a “Pink Mass” over the grave of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps Jr.’s mother. A Pink Mass is a...
View ArticleVICE News: Egypt After Morsi - Part 2
On July 3, Egypt's defense minister General Abdel Fatteh al-Sisi seized power from the country's elected president Mohammed Morsi. But Morsi's supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood weren't about to...
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One of Our Interns Chatted with the Founder of ‘Intern’ Magazine
Image courtesy Alec Dudson Unpaid internships run the gamut from rewarding to thankless. I once interned at a fashion magazine where I was instructed not to look the editor in chief in the eye (so...
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How to Cash in on Trayvon Martin
At last night’s peaceful Trayvon Martin protest in LA's Leimert Park, I was not only bombarded with appeals to continue fighting the good fight by demanding justice on Trayvon’s behalf, but also to...
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Why Women Will Never Beat Men in "Sports"
Yeah, they are OK for a couple of girls. Image via Flickr. Two things: 1. I manage a coed softball team in Los Angeles. “Managing” consists of collecting fees and making sure everyone knows what...
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Place of the Inside Out
Click through to the next page for more images by Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen. More photo stuff from VICE: Interfearance The ‘LBM Dispatch’ Brings the Good News Exogenesis
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A Few Impressions: George Lucas Redux
Image by Courtney Nicholas In honor of I don’t know what, I’ve been delving back into the films of George Lucas. I suppose it’s because of the news of a new Star Wars trilogy. I recently read...
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The Space Barbie Fashion Shoot
Dress by Anna October PHOTOS AND STYLING: Synchrodogs MODEL: Amatue Hair and Make-up: Inna Betily Nails: Georgia Rose Fairman Be on the lookout for our My Life Online documentary on Valeria Lukyanova,...
View ArticleLost in a Loop: A Chat with Andrew Bujalski About 'Computer Chess'
Lost in a Loop: A Chat with Andrew Bujalski About 'Computer Chess'
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I Went to a Gay Rodeo, and Now I Want to Bone Cowboys
Photo by Josh Sandulak. The Calgary Stampede has never really been my bag. I never manage to get up early enough for free pancake breakfasts, I’m not interested in the midway—because I’m afraid of...
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Inside the Free Syrian Army's DIY Weapons Workshops
Finished DIY mortars loaded onto a pickup truck at the Free Syrian Army's secret munitions factory in Aleppo. During my five months in Syria, there's one remark I keep hearing from the rebels: we need...
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