A Few Impressions: James Franco Speaks with Frank Bidart About Poetry
James Franco: You grew up around LA in the 50s and so there are film references in your work. I saw in a review once that you used a movie reference – the thing it was referring to wasn’t the deepest...
View ArticleVICE News: Here's What Happens When Hackers Send a SWAT Team to Your House
In recent years, a small amount of hackers and gamers have been "Swatting" – anonymously reporting fake hostage situations, shootings, and other violent crimes so elite police units (like SWAT teams)...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: An Unnamed English Woman The incident: A woman felt her ice cream cone didn't have enough sprinkles...
View ArticleWhich Cynical Popstar Gave the Most Insincere Apology?
Which Cynical Popstar Gave the Most Insincere Apology?
View ArticleThe Chinese Didn't Recognise the Tiananmen Massacre On its Anniversary
Government propaganda posters found around Beijing. This one writes: "The Communist Party is good. Socialism is good. Opening up and reform is good." This week marked the 25th anniversary of the...
View ArticleA Girl's Guide to Not Being a Dick This Summer
Summer is upon us – the season of saying “yes” to everything you’d normally reject. After-work drinks? Sure. Kissing strangers in broad daylight? Fine. Peeing in your front garden because you lost...
View ArticleThis Swede Is Nuts About Soviet Estonia
Tomas Alexandersson is a Swede whose hobby is the collection of travel guides, postcards and pamphlets from and about life during Soviet rule in the Estonian capital, Tallinn. He regularly posts any...
View ArticleBrixton's Black Revs Are at War with the Home Office
Since Monday, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) and anti-racism activists have been engaged in a frantic hunt-off to find as many illegal immigrants as possible. UKBA are trying to arrest and deport as many...
View ArticleVisionist Indulges in the Nether Reaches of South London Grime Instrumentals
Visionist Indulges in the Nether Reaches of South London Grime Instrumentals
View ArticleLet's Ban Rugby from British Schools
Portrait of the author as a rugby-playing, rugby-fearing young man Thanks to education secretary Michael Gove, a man who looks like he spent his entire school life getting bogwashed and is now...
View ArticleHave a Shitty Weekend!
Photo by Milan Boonstra Three more things to avoid this weekend I’ll tell you something for free: writing these intros is getting easier every week. You might think that by now I'd have run out of...
View ArticleGavin Haynes' Sleepless Nights: The Witch Doctor of Hampstead's Sad Trail of...
Joey the capuchin monkey, the only one to emerge from the insane Juliette D'Souza fraud case somewhat intact Richard Collier-Wright is dead now, though his profile on LinkedIn lives on. On his page,...
View ArticleFootage From a Sword Fight at Sikh Temple in India
Footage From a Sword Fight at Sikh Temple in India
View ArticlePorn Kingpin Steven Hirsch Believes Tube Sites Are Good for the Porn Industry
Photo courtesy of Vivid Last week, I wrote an article about #payforyourporn, porn stars and piracy experts’ online campaign to convince people to buy porn instead of using tube sites. As I researched...
View ArticleLOL Naturel
Moschino top and pants PHOTOS, ART DIRECTION, AND 3D DESIGN BY: PAMELA REED + MATTHEW RADER FASHION EDITOR: MELANEY OLDENHOF Hair: Yoichi Tomizawa using Oribe Hair Care at Art Department Makeup:...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 46
Meet Yuri Kasyanov, a Ukrainian activist who raises money from ordinary people to buy supplies for the Ukrainian army and risks his life to deliver supplies to the front lines. VICE News correspondent...
View ArticleSugar Cum Made My Jizz Taste Like Jamba Juice
Photos by Matthew Leifheit. Sugar Cum, 2014 One time after I came on a guy’s face, he told me my jizz “tasted like Earl Grey tea.” I wasn’t sure what to make of his comment. I love Earl Grey tea, and...
View ArticleThe Flintstones Amusement Park Is Decaying and Amazing
Photos by Megan Koester and Jamie Lee Curtis Taete Let’s say you went to the Grand Canyon and the weather fucking sucked. It was cold. It was damp. It was windy. You paid $25 for the privilege of...
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