The VMAs Are Proof that America Is Dead Inside
The VMAs Are Proof that America Is Dead Inside
View ArticleWhy Is Justin Trudeau's Marijuana Misadventure Newsworthy?
If you’ve been anywhere near a screen or old-timey print publication that aims to provide you with Canadian news, you’ve most likely heard the oh so shocking news that Canada’s dorkiest sexiest...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: The Cops Should Always Be on Camera
Photo via Flickr user Oakley Originals For the past 12 months, police officers in Rialto, California, have been wearing cameras while on duty as part of a pilot program. It’s expensive to mount a...
View ArticlePolyamory Is a Good Way to Be Slutty Without Hurting Anyone
Polyamory supporters in San Francisco. via WikiCommons. Tall, dark and handsome. That’s the general idea of a perfect husband when you’re a little girl. You can’t really imagine what he’ll look like,...
View ArticleA Chat with the Icelandic Politician Who Wants to Ban Porn
A Chat with the Icelandic Politician Who Wants to Ban Porn
View ArticleMidgaans and Ethiopians Are Fighting for Last Place in Somaliland
Above, the Jaylaani barbershop. Below to the left, a Gaboye in front of the shop. The Jaylaani barbershop in the center of Hargeisa, Somaliland, does good business. It’s nothing special as far as...
View ArticleDo Squeaky Clean Child Pop Stars Even Matter Anymore?
I didn’t belong there. That fact was abundantly clear. If I wasn’t tipped off by the parents who winced at me dead-eyed as I stood behind their bedazzled progeny, it was probably the box office clerk...
View ArticleBunheads
Lily wears I.D. Sarrieri bra and knickers, Charlie May skirt, American Apparel necklace, vintage ballet shoes PHOTOS: ROBERT HARPER STYLING: BERTIE BRANDES, CHARLOTTE ROBERTS Make-up: Philippe Miletto...
View ArticleHow Do You Kill Giant Cats? Get Some Giant Dogs
Photo by Jake Weigl The animals in Australia’s Northern Territory tend to be bigger and stranger than wildlife elsewhere, so when reports emerged in June that thousands of feral cats, reportedly...
View ArticleLess Coca in Colombia Means Nothing for Your Supply
A coca leaf. Photo via According to a UN report released earlier this month, coca growing in Colombia is down by 25 percent. At first glance, the news appears to be either welcome—if you’re of the...
View ArticleThe US Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan
The US Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan
View ArticleWe Are Not Men: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
View ArticleTurkey and Greece Are Working Together to Punish Dissidents
Graffiti on the side of an ambulance during the recent unrest in Istanbul—which was caused, according to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, by disruptive foreign plotters. Photo via While Turkey continues...
View ArticleButtwater Is a Legendary Party Trick
For the past few weeks, I’ve been touring around doing stand-up comedy, opening for a band called KEN Mode, and we recently found ourselves in Boston with nothing to do. It was a Monday, and some guy...
View ArticleGetting an Abortion in Rural Canada Isn't Easy
A graphical overview of the rural abortion situation in Canada, by Thomas Van Ryzewyk for VICE Canada. Getting an abortion in Ontario is fairly easy. Unless you accidentally walk into a crisis...
View ArticleI Joined NYC's Most Boring Cult
New York's SoHo neighborhood has plenty of art galleries, and it certainly has plenty of crazy people. But an art-gallery cult? The Terrain Gallery, owned by a group called the Aesthetic Realism...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: What We Talk About When We Talk About a Couple of Carver's...
Yesterday I was roasted for a Comedy Central program that will air on Labor Day. All the comics at the roast were great and seeing them perform their monologues amazed me. I was just happy to be in...
View ArticleJapan is Opening Internet Fasting Camps Because 500,000 Students are...
Japan is Opening Internet Fasting Camps Because 500,000 Students are "Pathologically Addicted"
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