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Rob Ford Doesn't Know Anything About Football
Mayor Rob Ford, performance art genius and Canada’s greatest embarrassment since this lady knows a lot of things. He knows how to drink like a motherfucker, supposedly downing half a 40-ounce bottle...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Newcastle: The Newest Fan of Newcastle United
After we got our bearings in Newcastle, we figured the first scene to immerse ourselves in might as well be that of the fanatics who support the poorly performing local football (or, soccer, as they...
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New York State of Mind: Kicking It with Bebe Panthere in Brooklyn
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
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This Week in Racism: The Most Racist Comments About Nelson Mandela
Photo via Flickr User South Africa The Good News Welcome to a special Nelson Mandela edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least...
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A Few Impressions: Ambigu-Gus Van Sant
Image from Gus Van Sant's Milk Gus Van Sant’s first film to be released in theaters was Mala Noche (1985), based on the memoir of the same title by Portland poet Walt Curtis. It depicts Walt as a gay...
View ArticleArt Gallery: Photographing People Once They've Left a Work State-of-Mind
Massimo Vitali works at documenting people who are not at work. He photographs places where people go to be as mentally removed from their jobs and daily lives as possible—people who have clearly...
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Oil Giant SWN Is Suspending Its Work in New Brunswick After Nationwide Protests
The anti-SWN demonstration in Toronto. Photo by the author. Harsh opposition to Texas energy firm SWN spread throughout Canada this week. Demonstrations popped up across the country in solidarity with...
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Finding Herpes and Cocaine in the Antwerp Public Library
Scientists at the Catholic University of Leuven tested ten of the most popular books at the Antwerp library for microbes and bacteria. What did they find? Herpes and cocaine. Every title—including...
View ArticleMeet the Robots Battling to Become the Future of Disaster Response
Meet the Robots Battling to Become the Future of Disaster Response
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Outsider Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out the Universe
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons The secrets of the universe have all been figured out, thanks to a guy who owns a trailer park in Washington. Jim Carter has discovered what he says explains,...
View ArticleDIY Inventors: The Real Iron Man
In the second episode of DIY: Chinese Inventors, we took a trip to Jilin, China to visit our friend Sun Jifa. Nearly a decade ago, Sun lost his hands in a fishing-related explosion. Sun couldn't...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: Watch the Gonz's New Short Film '08NOBEL80'
About a year ago, I missed a call from artist and skateboarder Mark Gonzales a.k.a. the Gonz. He left this voicemail. I tried to return the call, but my call failed to go through. A few nights ago, I...
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Tamara Faith Berger Writes Coming-of-Age Novels About Porn and Teen Sex
Image courtesy of Tamara Faith Berger To read Tamara Faith Berger's novels is to acknowledge that she isn't your mother's coming-of-age novelist. Tamara famously cut her literary teeth writing for...
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Slangin' Dope at Art Basel
A nightclub where white people probably love to do cocaine. Image via. Once a year, thousands of rich assholes flock to South Beach to buy artistic shit like papier-mâché balls at Art Basel, one of...
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Weediquette: T. Kid's Bad Luck Charm
T. Kid's spirit animal is a jailbird. Image via. Maintaining a high school weed habit was a hassle exemplified by run-ins with the police. Serious crimes rarely sparked these interactions in the...
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Syria's Rebel Press Are Fighting Back Against Jihadists
Copies of independent Syrian newspaper Enab Baladi ("Local Grapes") lie among rubble (picture courtesy of Enab Baladi) Rami Al Razzouk was traveling between Raqqa and Tabaqa in northeastern Syria when...
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Lenny Cooke Failed and Then Found Himself
It’s hard to define failure. Was Johnny Thunders a failure? Maybe. The guy who rides shotgun in a garbage truck? Perhaps. Personally, George W. Bush always struck me as a horrible failure, yet he made...
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