A New York Lawyer Thought Murdering a Trans Person Was No Big Deal
29-year-old Rasheen Everett assumed he was getting just what he wanted when he answered an ad for prostitute Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar in 2010, and so, was surprised to discover the transgendered sex...
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 ArticleCrisis in the Central African Republic
All photos and video by Robert King They went to the airport when the massacres began. Residents of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, knew that French soldiers were stationed at...
View ArticleThe Accidental Mexican Nuclear Heist Wasn't a One Off
A rather grainy image of the cobalt container (image courtesy of the National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards of Mexico's Energy Secretary) Last Monday morning, in the town of Tepojaco,...
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 ArticleWhy Does Everyone Love Chocolate So Much?
For the last few weeks I’ve been In A Complicated Relationship with chocolate. Prior to filming THE FIRST EPISODE IN THE NEW SERIES OF GIRL EATS FOOD, I’d always preferred to deal with break-ups with...
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 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 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 ArticleThe Twerking Thief Strikes in Brooklyn
Just when you were over this twerking nonsense, news broke about the greatest twerk ever twerked. An unnamed woman was seen doing the infamous dance outside an apartment building in Brooklyn....
View ArticleSnow in Cairo Is a Winter Nightmare
Image by Maha Salem. 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...
View ArticleDoes a Gay Guy's Face Reveal if He Is a Top or a Bottom?
Does this hairy face look like a “pitcher” or “catcher” to you? Image via. I try to abstain from making assumptions about the sex life of other people – because sometimes looks can be deceiving. The...
View ArticleGrowing Up in Apartheid-era South Africa
Image via I knew Nelson Mandela's name almost as soon as I knew my own. Over the hum of Saturday morning cartoons, my South African mother told me Nelson Mandela was her hero. She explained that...
View ArticlePermanently Temporary
A worker waits to be picked up in Chicago’s Little Village neighbourhood at 4:30 in the morning. All photos by Jackson Fager. One morning this October, I listened as the roar of a Ford Econoline...
View ArticleIMDB's Top Ten Movies of 2013 List Is Kind of Depressing
Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that....
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Watch Michel Gondry Explore Noam Chomsky's Mind
Activist, writer, philosopher and MIT professor Noam Chomsky has lived a colourful life. Turning Chomsky's ideas into visual manifestations, French illustrator and filmmaker Michel Gondry's newest...
View ArticleThe Exiled Pakistani Politican Leading an Army of Millions from the London...
An MQM election graphic with Altaf Hussain (picture via) One day in December 2012, tens of thousands of people gathered in Karachi, Pakistan’s mega-city. The speaker was not on stage, instead...
View ArticleGoogle Is Officially Bankrolling the Robot Uprising
Google Is Officially Bankrolling the Robot Uprising
View ArticleGavin Haynes' Sleepless Nights: Six Tedious Conversations No One Was Actually...
The water cooler is a mythical place where journalists go to overhear what you’re saying. These sneaks then take the "things you are talking about", and turn them into 1,200-word list-icles on "hot...
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