Cracking Crackland
A woman walks down the street in the area of São Paulo, Brazil, known as Crackland. Photo by Rafael Tognini Since the 90s, downtown São Paulo, Brazil, has been home to a roving open-air drug market...
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View ArticleRamallah Is a Paradise
Last year, I moved to the Palestinian city of Ramallah to work as a photographer for a newspaper. Coming from Brooklyn, I found the city to be equal parts friendly and odd. In my memories, the scents...
View ArticleOne Band Have Worked Out a Way to Cheat Spotify Out of Money
One Band Have Worked Out a Way to Cheat Spotify Out of Money
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Here's How To Run a Club Night That Doesn't Suck
View ArticleFriday Live!: Livestream: Someone Just Gatecrashed Our Awkward Blind Date
Everyone knows having to work on a Friday is a total injustice. But until we have our paymasters' heads on spikes and implement the four-day week, why not while away the next few hours watching two...
View ArticleFrench Teenagers Hate Each Other and It's All Kim Kardashian's Fault
Kim Kardashian is considered to be the ultimate role model for French Muslim girls who like dating black boys. Paris is burning and it's all Kim Kardashian's fault. Okay, that's an overstatement, but...
View ArticleThe Home Office Might Send a Cameroonian Refugee Home to Torture
SCNC members, including Eveline, protesting outside Downing Street in October of 2013. I first met Eveline Mungvu Tabah in October last year, when I was writing a piece about the Southern Cameroons...
View ArticleEating Is Bad for Your Soul
Jains meditating. Photo via Wiki Commons In prehistoric times, humans had to hunt for dinner with big rocks – or run away from it when it didn’t die off – if they wanted to survive another day....
View ArticleParis Lees: Eight Ways Ed Miliband Can Make Young People Feel the Oak in His...
Image by Sam Taylor As a Nottingham lass who’s never voted, I want to be wooed by a socialist hero with real oak in his penis. Ed, where are you? I know you're not the one who was bullied at school....
View ArticleLeave Your Rights at the Door, if You Visit a Romanian Police Station
On March 18th, the Brigade of Drug Activists (BADD) organised a meeting in front of the Municipal Police Station to commemorate those who died while in police custody. The Romanian Police's slogan is...
View ArticleAwkward Prom
Vintage tiara, shirt, top and skirt, H&M socks, Nike trainers PHOTOS BY HENRY GORSE STYLIST ANNA CURETIS Photographer's assistant: Giorgio Lattanzi Makeup: Sabina Zaiello Hair: Rebecca C Amoroso...
View ArticleHave a Shitty Weekend!
Photo by Kovvalsky People ask me, they say, "Joe, why you gotta be like that, brah? The weekend is a great thing, it’s a chance for us to see our friends, build relationships, find love. It’s an...
View ArticleHow to Behave Around a Celebrity
Photo by Harvii R Kindlon At about this time last weekend, Ant McPartlin was busy being assaulted outside a restaurant in Chiswick by a group of teenagers, who managed to get the face of shitty...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - Stop Sending Your T-Shirts to Africa
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Nigerian American journalist Dayo Olopade to discuss her new book, The Bright Continent:...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Nick Cannon Wore Whiteface and I Cried
Photo via Instagram Welcome to the White People Party Music edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST”...
View ArticleWhat Actually Happens to Donated Clothes?
For Adam Baruchowitz, every t-shirt tells a story – whether or not he wants to hear it. “People want to explain to you every item, like ‘this is the shirt I lost my virginity in,’” said the...
View ArticleIn Defence of the American Bro
Via Flickr user David Shankbone There are certain villains of society whose relative merits no one will defend. Anyone standing up for child molesters, serial killers or members of the Bush...
View ArticleTensions Are High in the Tiny Repressed State of Transnistria
A tank monument in Tiraspol, Transnistria. All photos by the author “Yes,” she says, handing over a copy of the local paper, “'I like it here in Tiraspol,’” making quote marks in the air with her...
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