HTC Downtown Sound: We Ate BBQ and Talked About Rich People with The Mandates
The Mandates are one of Calgary's best bands. That shouldn't sound like a minor compliment just because Calgary is a small-ish city. Calgary has a ton of cool shit going for it! That's what we learned...
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It's 2013, Who Still Listens to Limp Bizkit?
Rape Rock [reyp rok], noun: incredibly aggressive music, frequently integrated with rap, performed exclusively by males of the white persuasion. Reached the height of its popularity in the late...
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VICE Premiere: Old Money's 'Fire in the Dark'
If you toned down Kanye West's ego and turned up his sonic experimentation and then coupled that with some of Yasiin Bey's lyrical content, you’d arrive at something that sounds a lot like Old Money....
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The Perils of Staging a Gay Pride March in Ukraine
Photos by Ivan Chernichkin Ukraine was the first post-Soviet country to legalize homosexuality, which is obviously commendable, but difficult to understand given recent history. Last year, Kiev's...
View ArticleAnime North Is Canada's Nerd Utopia
Anime North is a social utopia. Attracting as many as 20,000 nerds per day, this three day convention is the largest of its kind in Canada. Against a mundane backdrop of hotels, a corporate convention...
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Angry Hockey Nerd: Ottawa Senators Fans Are Good Buddhists
Buddhists in our nation's capital. via. According to Buddhist teachings, life becomes so much more rewarding—or at least that you can end your existential suffering—when you abandon expectations....
View ArticleMeet Caninus, the Dog-Fronted Grindcore Band
Meet Caninus, the Dog-Fronted Grindcore Band
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Cries and Whispers in Obamastan
“I can’t believe we went for him instead of Hillary,” I told Jack Doroshow. “Wasn’t that a dumb call,” Jack said, “and then feeling like a total chump for having to vote for him again.” “Now that I...
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A Syrian Proxy War Is Being Fought in Tripoli
“If we all piss on them at the same time, they will drown.” The Sunni fighter in Bab al-Tabbaneh tells me this while gesturing up the hill towards the neighbouring Alawite district of Jabal Mohsen....
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VICE News: White Student Union
NEWS Here Comes the White-Power Safety Patrol They Want to Clean Up Your Campus By Wes Enzinna Members of the White Student Union, from left to right (they agreed to participate on condition we only...
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I Took a Female Ejaculation Class
Some people call vaginas "clams." You know that thing that most women did when they were 14, where they squatted over a mirror to discover their own vaginas? Maybe it’s my culturally instilled Iranian...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Dov Charney on Reforming the Global Garment Industry
The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we know. This week we sit down with American Apparel founder...
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We Are Not Men: Ryan Lochte Is a Human Jägerbomb
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...
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The Man Who Allegedly Murdered the President of Bangladesh Is Safe in Canada
Noor Chowdhury has been living in Canada since 1996. via. Noor Chowdhury is the most hated man in Toronto's Bangladeshi community. Since 1996, Canada has been keeping Chowdhury, accused of firing the...
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VICE Premiere: James Franco Just Sent Us His Band's Latest Video
That video up there is called "Crime (<tfo> remix)," and it was directed by VICE's newest cultural critic, James Franco. It's for his band, a duo called Daddy that also features Franco's art...
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Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei: Taipei Public Art
For the past few weeks, in celebration of the forthcoming release of Tao Lin's latest novel, Taipei, we have been featuring a weekly selection of photos taken by the author during his recent trip to...
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Rich Paul Is Appealing His 81-Year Prison Sentence for Selling Pot
Rich Paul recording a video from jail. Last month I wrote about Rich Paul, a pro-marijuana activist in Keene, New Hampshire, who was facing 81 years in prison for selling marijuana. Rich had refused...
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A Few Impressions: My Name Is Tom and I’m a Video Game Addict
Image by Courtney Nicholas “I am a video game nerd and I love it.” That’s what Tom Bissell admits in his excellent confession and analysis of his descent (ascent?) into video game addiction, Extra...
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The E-Currency Exchange LibertyReserve.com Got Shut Down for Laundering $6...
Yesterday, the US Attorney's office in Manhattan brought charges against the founder of LibertyReserve.com, an online e-currency trading company that an indictment handed down in Manhattan federal...
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Rapping for Peace in Somalia
Lihle Muhdin performs for former fighters in Mogadishu. Lihle Muhdin’s face was glued to the round airplane window. "Look how beautiful the beaches of Somalia are," he sighed. Below us stretched...
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