Chatting with Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian about Corgis and Internet Freedom
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View ArticleWhat the Hell Is Wrong with the Cover of the New Black Flag Album?
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View ArticleA Pregnant Woman Hit Her Stomach with a Hammer to Prove That Her Baby Was Tough
It's like a bad Chuck Norris joke come to life, but a 24-year-old mother in England was filmed hitting her pregnant belly with a hammer to prove that her unborn son was “hard." Heather Thorpe was...
View ArticleItaly’s Miraculous New Tabloid
Image courtesy of Miracoli Italy’s former prime minister is a sex criminal, 42 percent of its young people are unemployed, and the country is currently going through its longest recession in 60 years....
View ArticleEast Germany's Secret Police Used to Spy On Skateboarders
For whatever reason the public perception of skateboarding seems to have changed over the last decade. Skaters on TV aren't obnoxious, glue-huffing wasters any more; they're admirable young men...
View ArticleWhich Parts of Toronto Are Being Put at Risk by Enbridge's Line 9?
Photos by the author. Enbridge’s 38-year-old Line 9 oil pipeline runs from Montreal to Sarnia, crossing many waterways and communities along its 639-kilometre route. The company has applied to...
View ArticleMidnight Sabotage with Transylvania's Anti-Fracking Activists
They even make this pun in Romania. “Do you think they're about to have sex?” one of the activists whispers. I'm in Transylvania, in central Romania, crouched in the bushes with a bunch of hardcore...
View Article'Satanic Lesbian Rapists' Turn Out to be Nice, Innocent Ladies
Photograph courtesy of Deborah Esquenazi Last Monday, a group of San Antonio women were released from prison, their sentences vacated, after serving fourteen years for heinous sex crimes. Way back in...
View ArticleThe Book Report : This Is Emotions: 'Super Sad True Love Story' by Gary...
The Book Report is a series that promises to deliver exactly what it promises: reports on books by the people who’ve read them. Catch evenings of live, in-person Book Reports that will remind you of...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Travel: North Korean Motorcycle Diaries - Trailer
For the past decade, New Zealanders Joanne and Gareth Morgan have been living the semiretired lifestyle of their dreams, traveling around the world on motorcycles alongside a few of their closest...
View ArticleColombian Trade Unionists Keep Getting Assassinated
On the afternoon of Sunday, August 25, Huber Ballesteros was snatched by police and arrested as he ate his lunch in the Colombian capital of Bogota. Two days later he was charged with “rebellion” and...
View ArticleWriter's Block: Pixote: American Pixação
All photos by Rafael Di Celio Writer's Block is a bimonthly column that takes a low-brow approach to profiling various street bombers and modern-day vandals with a mixture of stories, off-the-cuff...
View ArticleNoisey Canada Premiere: The Soupcans - "Parasite Brain"
Noisey Canada Premiere: The Soupcans - "Parasite Brain"
View ArticleWe Partied from Las Vegas to Calgary with DJ Chuckie
We Partied from Las Vegas to Calgary with DJ Chuckie
View ArticleDid Mammals Evolve Snake Eyes?
Image from Flickr, via USFWS/Southeast Back when Adam and Eve were letting it all hang out in the Garden of Eden, a dastardly serpent convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit by telling her, “your...
View ArticleChunklet to Go Go : Contemplating the Heavens with VHK's Atilla Grandpierre
Hungarian polymath Atilla Grandpierre is a freethinking genius in an increasingly conformist world. An eight-year hiatus notwithstanding, he’s been fronting the psychedelic-punk powerhouse VHK since...
View ArticleWe Reviewed 'Figure 1' the Instagram for Doctors
Social media is sort of awkward territory for people involved in healthcare. I get it: sometimes I forget that people aren’t interested in gangrene as much as I am. Sometimes I’ll post something on...
View ArticleIs Canada Doing Enough to Prevent a Massive Superbug Outbreak?
Here's what typhoid looks like. Put it under a kaleidoscope to see a superbug. via Flickr. There are all kinds of potentially world-ending disasters that stain our collective unconscious these days:...
View ArticleThe New Face of the Anti-Abortion Movement
Mary Rose Short, 24, protests at the University of New Mexico in favor of Albuquerque’s late-term abortion ban last week. Photo courtesy survivors.la Three months ago, dozens of pro-life...
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