Is War Brewing in Niger?
You may have heard of MUJAO—the West African jihadists who started a war in Mali this year. Well, yesterday they exploded two car bombs that killed dozens of people in Niger. One struck the remote...
View ArticleVICE on HBO Outtakes: Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony
Heroin is the most addictive drug on earth, and some people will do anything to kick the habit. Enter Ibogaine, a drug made out of the African iboga root, whose intense, hallucinogenic properties make...
View ArticleMy Friend Is Wearing Abercrombie & Fitch for an Entire Year
My friend Amanda Schmidt, who is wearing Abercrombie & Fitch for a solid calendar year Back in high school, I avoided Abercrombie & Fitch like botulism. It seemed like literally everyone I...
View ArticleMy Greatest Regret Is Not Making Out with a 500-Pound Woman on a Shitty Talk...
Illustration via Flickr user Christian Paparcuri I’m writing this on my 33rd birthday. I’m sitting on my patio out in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, enjoying the quiet and fresh air. I’ve exceeded the...
View ArticleWeediquette: Getting Busted in New York
In most places in the world, weed is still an illegal substance. But despite that illegality, some law enforcers tolerate it’s use. An understanding exists between weed smokers and many police: as...
View ArticleI Interviewed Toronto's Most Popular Transsexual Model
Before the Canadian news cycle was inundated by a series of political scandals, resignations, and smoke-outs, a decidedly minor controversy occurred within the pages of Canada's Sun Media newspaper...
View ArticleShorties: We Went to the Toronto Thaw Fest
At the beginning of May 2013, Telephone Explosion Records celebrated the return of not-awful weather with the aptly named Toronto Thaw Festival. For four nights, the Thaw packed four different venues...
View ArticleVICE News: Triple Hate - Part 4
NEWS The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again Is a Park in Memphis, Tennessee, the Epitome of Racism in Modern America? The KKK Say It’s Just History, Many Others Disagree By Rocco Castoro A...
View ArticleHow Corrupt Will Montreal’s New Ruling Party Be?
Montreal's former mayor, partying in white gloves. via. Union Montreal is now dead, its putrid corpse being danced over and pissed on by scandal-sick Montrealers. Goodbye and good riddance, you...
View ArticleMoronic English Fascists Marched On Parliament in London
Since Lee Rigby's murder in Woolwich last Wednesday, there has been a surge in Islamophobia in the UK. The English Defence League – long-time opponents of Islam, given that they're basically...
View ArticleThe Subterranean Scene
The subway authorities move passengers to different cars so that the Sikarios will bother the least amount of people possible. Photos by Mauricio Castillo. It’s Saturday morning in a Mexico City...
View ArticleHow the Internet Ruined 'Arrested Development'
How the Internet Ruined 'Arrested Development'
View ArticleThe Facebook Comments Rob Ford's Staffers Don’t Want You To See
A crack pipe word cloud, because, why not? The comments on the Facebook page of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford are, on the whole, positive and congratulatory. Even in the wake of the ever-evolving ‘Crackgate’...
View ArticleFemen Are Being Attacked by Nazis and Sent to Prison
It’s been a hectic couple of days for Femen: As we speak, their Paris headquarters is under siege by 300 neo-Nazis seeking revenge for the events of two weekends ago, when they interrupted a yearly...
View ArticleNoisey Canada Premiere: Tasha the Amazon ft. Cola of Wifetaker - Scallywags
Noisey Canada Premiere: Tasha the Amazon ft. Cola of Wifetaker - Scallywags
View ArticleDogmageddon: People Who Love God Also Love Porn
Photo via Very quickly, before we get into the roundup: Hey, look! The residents of “religious” cities watch just about the same amount of porn as us godless heathens in progressive cities like San...
View ArticleMotherboard: High Country - Trailer
Denver, Colorado. The Mile High City. Call it America's Amsterdam. Ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a budding tech sector in what could be called the Silicon Valley of Weed. In High...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: An Excerpt from Tao Lin's 'Taipei'
Over the past month or so we've been publishing a whole slew of iPhone photos Tao Lin took on a recent visit to Taipei, the place from which his new novel takes its title. Pictures are all well and...
View ArticleHey Montreal, Your City Has an Escaped Murderer In It
via CBC & Correctional Service Canada. Have you seen this recently escaped murderer? His name is Jean-Pierre Duclous, and in 1991, he beat a woman, shot her through the heart, wrapped her body up...
View ArticleOffbeatr, the Kickstarter for Porn, Is a Furry Playground
Screenshot via Offbeatr Ben Tao and Eric Lai aren't furries. They aren't deeply embedded in the culture of hentai or porn video games or any of the other odd cum-drenched communities that have grown...
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