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Holes and Bodies and Secrets and Skin and Death
Despite any strained complaining that the small press is dead, I think more books have come out this summer than maybe ever before. Like, in all of history. There are so many new books coming out...
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Hezbollah Stronghold in Beirut Bombed
Photo by Martin Armstrong At a checkpoint along the Hadi Nasrallah road in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh a group of plain-clothed men inspected the flow of traffic and intermittently ordered...
View ArticleVICE Speaks with Gigi Ibrahim About Violence in Egypt
Since the ouster of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi by the military on July 3, clashes between pro-Morsi supporters and the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) have left the country’s...
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David Choe’s Mexico City Gallery Show Features Naked Girls and Visions of...
Photos by Mauricio Castillo Graffiti muralist, artist, and wanderer of the world David Choe has already had a lifetime’s worth of adventures. He made $200 million when Facebook went public thanks to...
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This Week in Racism: Orson Scott Card Is Officially the Most Racist Sci-Fi...
Photo by Flickr user Jeremy Hall. Welcome to a special Hatin’ on Obama edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and...
View ArticleDeath Toll Rises on Egypt's "Day of Anger"
A “Day of Anger” was called for by the Muslim Brotherhood today, in response to the murder of more than 600 Mohamed Morsi supporters on Wednesday. The massacre was carried out by the Egyptian...
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Obama Blames Kimye, Not Corrupt Politicians, for the Death of the American Dream
Image created by the author's father. In a recent Amazon Kindle Singles interview, President Obama blamed Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for the death of the American dream. “[In the past] kids weren’t...
View ArticleMore Photos from the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘Day of Anger’
VICE’s Wail Gzoly sent us these harrowing photographs of clashes between pro-Morsi supporters and Egyptian security forces from Friday. Violence continues Saturday at Ramses Square in Downtown Cairo,...
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Taji's Mahal: The Amazing Falcon Bowse T-Shirt Transformation Program
Photo of Falcon Bowse. For this week's Mahal, I headed over to Falcon Bowse's pop-up shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to chat with with Falcon Bowse himself. Also known as Fuckin' Boss, Falcon has spent...
View ArticleThe Government Took This Man's Raccoon Away Because of a Viral Video
In the days before online video, a long-bearded man dancing with his pet raccoon to Aretha Franklin on his porch in rural Tennessee would have gone unnoticed, just one weird blissful moment in a world...
View ArticleVICE Shorts: 'The Cub' by Riley Stearns
It can be strangely refreshing when an artist decides to get back to basics. Things seem clearer, easier to decipher, and simpler. They lock into what’s really important and go for it. Filmmaker Riley...
View ArticleVideo from the Muslim Brotherhood's "Day of Anger"
On Friday, August 16, 2013, the Muslim Brotherhood called for a “Day of Anger” following the brutal clearing of two pro-Morsi sit-ins by Egyptian security forces that killed over 600 people on...
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Weediquette: Life's Weed Bonuses
Image via Flickr user Alex Weimer. In my weeded out life, I try to focus on the lucky little bonuses the universe throws my way. Many of these joys are a direct result of my struggling memory—a...
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Animal Activists Are Trying to Save the World's Fish from the Mafia
The Black Fish’s founder Wietse van der Werf. Photo by Chris Grodotzki. On a warm night in July 2012, off the island of Ugljan in the Croatian Adriatic, two activists slipped into the water near a...
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Anti-Coup Protesters Arrested in Cairo
Scuffles and gunshots rang out in Ramses Square on Saturday as police arrested Muslim Brotherhood members at the al Fatah mosque in central Cairo. Police stormed the mosque after claiming that...
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The Quaking Mess
Image via Flickr user another.point.in.time. This week, I lost a childhood friend to drugs and alcohol. He was only 24 years old. My friend was a brilliant musician and talented artist, but he was...
View ArticleShorties: Korean Poo Wine
Select "English subtitles" in the rare event that you don't speak Korean. "Ttongsul" is a Korean rice wine mixed with the fermented turd of a human child and has an alcoholic content of around 9...
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Are American Drones al-Qaeda's Strongest Weapon in Yemen?
Yemeni Soldiers (Image via) Things are getting really messy in Yemen at the moment. With soldiers being murdered in their sleep, embassies closing en masse in fear of an imminent wave of attacks and...
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