Rainbow Report: The Week in LGBT: Who Will Stop the Homosexual Dance Teacher...
“Will Smith opened a school with his wife Jada Pinkett that is run by Scientologists and all the children that go to that school, the intention is to make them Scientologists. A gay school would do...
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The human race is a larcenous, duplicitous one, isn’t it? Our ingenuity in the fine art of deluding knows few limits. To honor that ineffable nature of our being, we present December’s edition of VICE...
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TALIB KWELI Gravitas Self-released I had a cool TA in college who helped reframe the way I thought about the world. He convinced me to express my disgust regarding the vague political issues I didn’t...
View ArticleVICE News: Ukraine Rising - Trailer
For three weeks, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian protesters have been flooding the streets of Kiev, occupying government buildings and taking over the city's Independence Square. Initially, the...
View ArticleI Lied to My Wife, Flew to Lagos, and Got the Shit Beaten Out of Me Because...
All illustrations by Matt Freak City. By now, everyone is well aware of “419” scams, also known as advance-fee fraud or Nigerian-email fraud. These are cons in which anonymous hustlers pose as corrupt...
View ArticleGirl Eats Food: Getting High On Chocolate
Girl Eats Food is back for Season Two. In the first episode, anti-chef Jo Fuertes-Knight explores the growing trend of people using raw chocolate to "align the heart chakra" and go on an "inwards...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: "Song of Myself": Why Walt Whitman Was the Original Kanye...
Image by Courtney Nicholas In this age of social media, self-promotion is the name of the game. We all have our little avatars, our little pictures and texts that we put out into the electronic world,...
View ArticleHow-To: How to Throw a Holiday Party with Julia Ziegler-Haynes
Who doesn't love attending a holiday party? It is an excuse to drink sugary punch at an inappropriate time of day, give lingering hugs to attractive people in cashmere—that would otherwise seem creepy...
View ArticleKitty Pryde Liveblogs the New Beyoncé Album
Kitty Pryde Liveblogs the New Beyoncé Album
View ArticleActivists Are Lashing Out at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
The crinkled tarp is not too reassuring. Photos by the author. In response to recent controversy around GE-Hitachi’s uranium processing plant in the heart of Toronto, the Canadian Nuclear Safety...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Reminds the World That "Santa...
Thumbnail image via Flickr User soulchristmas Welcome to another 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”...
View ArticleNuclear Hijacking Is More Common Than You Think
An image of the cobalt container (courtesy of the National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards of Mexico's Energy Secretary) Last Monday morning, in the town of Tepojaco, north of Mexico City,...
View ArticleRolling with the Lords of Fun
The Lords of Fun is an unfunded, unsolicited, and somewhat unintentional fraternity of folks thirsty for kicks who took a road trip from Richmond, Virginia to the Outer Banks using the FBM bikes tour...
View ArticleAn Accused Child Molester Said His Alleged Victims Were "Not Really Kids"
Images of Kindred via his (now defunct) Facebook Accused child molester and pastor of what appears to be a made-up church in Minnesota, Jacoby Kindred, has created a public relations disaster for...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: This Artist Paints Pictures with His Own Blood
Video by the author. Photo by Jade Katz. A few weeks ago, Lower East Side legend Clayton Patterson introduced my friend Jade Katz and me to Axel, a blood artist and jewelry designer. For years, Axel...
View ArticleVICE News: Ukraine Rising
For three weeks, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian protesters have been flooding the streets of Kiev, occupying government buildings and taking over the city's Independence Square. Initially, the...
View ArticleSnow in Cairo Is a Winter Nightmare
Image by the author. Egypt is rarely predictable, so it wasn't surprising to see snow in the desert this weekend. By Friday morning, social media had gone mad with photos of an Egyptian winter...
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