Fringes: Underground Fighters of Japan
Waru [bad boy] is a Japanese anything-goes fighting tournament started by movie producer and entrepreneur Yamamoto Yoshihisa. When it comes to organized fighting in Japan, it's about as rough as it...
View ArticleWe Don't Need to Defend Beyonce's Feminism Anymore Because We Have 'Beyonce'
We Don't Need to Defend Beyonce's Feminism Anymore Because We Have 'Beyonce'
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Your ADHD Meds Might Give You a Life-Threatening Erection
Image via The FDA issued a warning today that a small number of the 5 percent of young boys who have been diagnosed with ADHD are at risk for priapism, aka: boners that won't go away. Medications that...
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A Salvation Army Worker Was Assaulted for Not Saying "Merry Christmas"
It's that time of year where Americans put their petty first-world problems aside and engage in a true battle, unlike any other. I'm obviously talking about the annual War on Christmas. It's back, and...
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Searching for Mecca
Malcolm Shabazz, the 28-year-old grandson of Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico City this past May. All illustrations by Esra Røise. Malcolm L. Shabazz, the 28-year-old grandson of Malcolm X, crossed the...
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The Mormon Church No Longer Believes That Dark Skin Is a Punishment from God
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, was started about 30 years before the Civil War by a bunch of white farmers, so it should come as no surprise that...
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Erry Day ’I’m Hustlin’
Fuct T-shirt, Nike pants, Adidas shoes, Alleyon Apparel hat, vintage watch; Adidas top, Adidas x KZK x Mark McNairy shorts, vintage long johns, Palladium boots, Alleyon Apparel hat, vintage bracelet...
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We Are Not Men: Maurtified
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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VICE's Top 50 Albums of 2013
Frank Zappa once said that "music criticism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." We're onboard with that statement, which is why this time of year...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Metronomy's "I'm Aquarius" Music Video Is a Cosmic Rabbit Hole
Metronomy's "I'm Aquarius" Music Video Is a Cosmic Rabbit Hole
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Hilton Als on Writing and Race
This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam welcomes Hilton Als, the theater writer for the New Yorker and one of America's most daring and inventive critics. In his latest book, White Girls, Als blends...
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Is Montreal's Mayor Serious about a Massage Parlour Crackdown?
Glamor shots from Lily's profile on "Montrealaise," an online directory of Montreal sex workers and erotic masseuses. Lily jerks off men for a living at an east end Montreal massage parlour. She loves...
View ArticleA Look Inside Illegal Vancouver Grow-Ops from the 1990s
Sometime between 1996 and 1997, photographer Victor John Penner did a pro-bono shoot for Jim Skipp, a graphic designer friend in Vancouver, that included photographing a police chopper and some...
View ArticleRastaman Rob Ford Dances for Dogecoins in City Hall
Rastaman Rob Ford Dances for Dogecoins in City Hall
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Angry Mobs and Revenge Killings in the Central African Republic
Photos by Robert King The mob wanted blood. Almost 100 people, many of them barely teenagers, had massed in front of the gates of Friendship Hospital, kept at bay only by French soldiers and their...
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From Insanity to Death: Inside Burma’s Drug Eradication Museum
All photos by Alex Palmer A few hundred feet from glittering Junction Square Shopping Center, in the center of Burma’s former capital city Yangon, you’ll find the crumbling Drugs Elimination Museum....
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Worshipping at the Altar of Maximón, the Drunken, Devilish Mayan God Beloved...
A shrine to Maximón in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. All photos by the author Depending on who you ask, Maximón is Satan, a Catholic saint, or a relic of the pre-colonial Mayan religion. Everyone can...
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There's a Tiny Chance Pussy Riot Could Be Released Tomorrow
Pussy Riot's Katia Samutsevich. Photo by Olga Kravets Despite the fact that most of the civilized world is upset about the Russian establishment's treatment of dissidents, so far Vladimir Putin has...
View ArticleNo Tomorrow: A South Side Heroin Addict Parses the Noise on Chief Keef and...
No Tomorrow: A South Side Heroin Addict Parses the Noise on Chief Keef and Violent Crime in Chicago
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