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Divine Was the Judi Dench of Drag Queens
Still from Pink Flamingos courtesy of BAMcinématek/Photofest When the drag queen Divine ate dog shit at the end of John Waters’s Pink Flamingos, he knew he was participating in a great publicity...
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This Week in Racism: Miss America Is Not White, and Everyone Is Mad
Welcome to a special Miss America 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 “RACIST” being the most racist. -Last...
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Cheeseheads With Attitude: The Green Bay Packers Parody Band That Sold 50,000 Records
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Weediquette: A Muslim's Adventures in Pork
Image via Flickr user Verity Cridlan These days, my housemates frequently come home to the smell of bacon—typically, it’s not till I hear the deadbolt unlock that I realize I’m stoned and standing in...
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Massachusetts Might Force a Woman to Share Parental Rights with the Rapist...
Image via Flickr user CMCarterSS In Massachusetts, it is perfectly legal for a man to seek custody of a child he fathered by raping a woman. As strange as this sounds, a woman is currently fighting to...
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I Grew Up in a Trailer Park in the Everglades
Photos courtesy of the author How I ended up growing up in a trailer park in the Everglades is still a bit of a mystery to me. In 1998, my family moved from Davie, a wealthy cowboy themed suburb...
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Poor-Man's Speed: Coming of Age in Wigan's Anarchic Northern Soul Scene
Me on the dancefloor at Mr M's, at the Fourth Anniversary allnighter, September 1977. Photo courtesy of Julie Bennett. One Saturday night in 1975, I met my friend at a shop in Manchester that would,...
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What Do Women Who Wear the Niqab Think of the Niqab Debate?
A Muslim woman wearing a niqab in London. (Photo via) While Muslim women wearing niqabs in Britain might be a constant bugbear for EDL types, it's generally not something the rest of the population...
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Bob Guccione's Erotic Art from the 19th Century
The super special September issue of VICE was exclusively culled from the archives of Bob Guccione Sr.—the legendary magazine publisher who built a media empire that started with Penthouse. This...
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Mark McNairy's Clothes Are Loud So He Doesn't Have to Be
Mark McNairy in his showroom. All photos by Conor Lamb. A long line of young people, clad in jerseys and button down shirts, stretched outside the doors of Eyebeam down West 21st Street in Manhattan...
View ArticleMoscow Is a Paradise - Part Two
Sasha Mademuaselle's favorite city is Moscow, which isn't all that surprising given it's where she was born and raised. Sasha says that what she particularly loves about her hometown is "the freedom...
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Syrian Rebels Are Killing Each Other for Control
"Watch out—there are snipers on this street," warned the ISIS fighter as my driver stopped next to him and eight other heavily armed men who were preparing to head into battle. ISIS, or the Islamic...
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Checking in on the Chemical Valley
The site of the Sun-Canadian pipeline clean-up. Photo by Wilson Plain. It’s been a few months since I spent time on the Aamjiwnaang First Nations reserve in Sarnia, Ontario. You may remember watching...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Did Police Screw Up During the DC Navy Yard Shooting?
Police vehicles outside the Navy Yard on the day of the shooting. Photo by Flickr user Tim Evanson Last Monday, former Navy Reservist Aaron Alexis shot up the Washington, DC, Navy Yard, killing 12...
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You Can't Just Walk Around Masturbating in Public, Swedish People
This isn't the famous Swedish masturbator, but whoever this guy is, he should't be jackin' it either. Photo by Surefire Last week, the Swedish newspaper Mitt i Stockholm reported on a sexual assault...
View ArticleFringes: Heroin Holiday - Trailer
Every August, while Europe's bankers, lawyers, and other desk jockeys shut off their phones and head to the beach, the junkies of Prague set up camp in the poppy fields outside the city for a vacation...
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Why Is Stephen Harper Ignoring the UN's Push to Investigate Missing...
The scene from a recent Missing Women's Memorial March. via Flickr. Over the last thirty years—according to investigations by the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the UN Committee on...
View ArticleMotherboard: Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons
It was high noon. The Tower's 3.5-ton bell chimed out 16 poms, right on cue. By then, the temperature was well into the triple digits. The sun beamed down on locals and university students, faculty,...
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