Jim Mangan and the Layers of the Utah Desert
Jim Mangan is an old friend of ours whose work has graced the pages of VICE over the years. While he usually spends his time wandering the dunes of the American desert, he was recently in New York...
View ArticleWeediquette: Thirty Tons of Hash Set Ablaze? A Pothead’s Lament
 </p> <p> Have you ever stared at the tray disposal in a cafeteria, watching as...
View ArticleConor Lamb's NYFW Photo Blog: Day Six: Kaal E. Suktae, Choiboko, and Beyond...
Day six of NYFW was when everyone took a breather to recover from all the exhausting parties of the weekend. While we were still in bed with major hangovers, photographer Conor Lamb made it out to...
View ArticleHamilton's Pharmacopeia: The Ambien Effect - Trailer
In 1999 the drug Ambien was discovered to have the extremely unexpected ability of rejuvenating dead neurological tissue. This effect was first demonstrated in a South African man named Louis Viljoen,...
View ArticleThe New iPhone Just Might Change Everything
The New iPhone Just Might Change Everything
View ArticleLook What Arrived in the Mail Today from Spike Jonze
By now, you've probably heard we got nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for our HBO series, VICE. The awards ceremony is on September 22, and we're all pretty...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Would You Buy the Magazine That Funds Heroin Use?
Last weekend, a new magazine appeared in Copenhagen. Illegal! is a quarterly publication about drugs, sold by drug addicts in order to fund their drug addiction. Two thirds of the total sale price...
View Article'Grand Theft Auto V' Is Going to Destroy My Social Life
A sad, sad scene that's bound to be repeated time and time again once GTAV comes out. Grand Theft Auto IV came out in the same week as my first and only (thus far) root canal. I had been prescribed...
View ArticleHow Much Will the US Defense Industry Make from a Missile Strike Against Syria?
American missile ships fire a volley of (very expensive) weapons. Photo via Even as diplomats work on a last-ditch effort to get Syria to hand over its chemical weapons to international authorities,...
View ArticleLina Scheynius Pictures Everybody Naked
Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius used to be the queen of Flickr in the early 00s. Back then, she posted pictures of her life, her friends, and self-portraits. Her photos received attention for...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Season Two Trailer
In Fresh Off the Boat season two, Eddie takes you on a global excursion examining cities in transition. From the abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit to migrant Kyrgyz workers in Moscow to the yurts of...
View ArticleConor Lamb's NYFW Photo Blog: Day Seven: Badgely Mischka, Diesel Black Gold,...
Day seven of NYFW is the day when you realize New York Fashion Week is actually New York Fashion Week and a Half. We went to Badgely Mischka (no relation to our fav streetwear brand), then headed to...
View ArticleMontreal Is an Island of Tolerance Amid a Sea of Rednecks
The Quebec government's guide to reducing ostentatiousness amongst its rank and file. You know by now that whenever Quebec makes international headlines, it’s never for anything the rest of the...
View ArticleIf You Build the Code, Your Computer Will Write the Novel
As a person who grew up playing text-based roleplaying games and trolling BBS sites, I’ve always been obsessed with language generated by computers. I remember spending hours and hours scouring the...
View ArticlePeople and Brands Have No Idea How to Commemorate 9/11
Photo via Flickr user marada On September 11, 2001, I didn’t really know what to do. I didn’t actually need to do anything—when the planes hit, I was on way to my high school in Seattle, Washington,...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Cormac McCarthy’s 'Child of God'
Image by Courtney Nicholas It is Cormac McCarthy’s m.o. to uncover the underbelly of American history and explore some of the most violent and immoral acts swept under the façade of progress and...
View ArticleThe Kindest Thing Jay Leno Ever Did for Me
Photos by Rhea Butcher After a lot of hard work coming up as a stand-up comic in Los Angeles, I got a call late in the evening on Labor Day telling me that I’d be appearing on The Late Late Show with...
View ArticleIntroducing the Guccione Archives Issue
The super special September issue of VICE was exclusively culled from the archives of Bob Guccione Sr.—the legendary magazine publisher, provocateur, and entrepreneur who built a media empire that...
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