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Buying Your Drugs Online Is Good for You
Heroin listings on Silk Road Silk Road 2.0, the successor to the deep web's most infamous marketplace, just passed a new milestone. After a dramatic holiday season, when three of its staff and several...
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This Week in Racism: Sarah Palin Complains About "the Race Card" and a Black...
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” being the most racist. -A common complaint I,...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - What's Next in the Snowden Saga?
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to...
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Barricades Were Burning Again in Kiev Last Night
The ceasefire brokered on Thursday in Kiev between police and Euromaidan protesters didn't hold out; last night, the barricades were burning again. More government buildings were stormed in other...
View ArticleVICE Special: How to Make Haggis
Today is Burns day, Scotland’s national holiday celebrating the life of the poet Robert Burns. This holiday isn’t just an excuse to get blasted. It's also a culinary tribute where revelers toast to...
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Therapy with Steve Girard, AKA Stevie Eats Worms
I hate to keep coming back to this, but after I gargled my piss on the internet I received a lot of heartfelt missives from urine enthusiasts the world over. One very intrusive fan even searched my...
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Denmark’s Controversial Teenage Muslim Superstar Poet
Photo by Morten Holtum (Courtesy of Gyldendal) Yahya Hassan is an 18-year-old Muslim Palestinian immigrant to Denmark who has become a social critic, celebrity writer and general shit-stirrer – all...
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The Hangover News
Depressing Anniversaries OVER 50 PEOPLE WERE REPORTED DEAD AFTER VIOLENCE IN EGYPT Protesters and security forces clashed on the third anniversary of the anti-Mubarak revolt (via) At least 54 people...
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If the Drug War Is Failing, Where'd All the Cocaine Go?
The crew of the CGC Forward assembles 88 bales of seized cocaine off the coast of Honduras. Photo via US Coast Guard Toward the end of last year, the DEA published its 2013 National Drug Threat...
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A Few Impressions: What of the Ottava Rima in Byron’s 'Don Juan'?
Lord Byron’s use of ottava rima – a form of poetry with an ABABABCC rhyming pattern – in his mock-epic poem Don Juan stems from his belief to deliver seriocomic material. The poem builds up content,...
View ArticleEvery Woman: Life as a Truck-Stop Stripper - Part One
Everyone knows what charming places strip clubs can be, but perhaps there is no club so charming as one in Moriarty, New Mexico – a truck stop with taxidermy and the bras of former employees on the...
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Oscar Isaac Talks 'Inside Llewyn Davis', Cats and the Coen Brothers
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....
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I Went to a D-List Celebrity Botox Party
The author with (from left) Tashera Simmons, Cheryl Caruso and Myla Sinanaj. D-list celebrities are different from you or me. The oft-derided “famous for being famous” folk who dominate reality...
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Death and Jubilation in Egypt On the Third Birthday of Its Revolution
The third anniversary of Egypt’s January 25th revolution was probably not one that its architects would have hoped for. Over two bloody, fractured days, more than 60 were killed and hundreds more...
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The "Burmese bin Laden" Swears He's a Good Guy
Photos by Andrew Stanbridge The Buddhist monk many people hold responsible for the Myanmar riots that have killed hundreds of Muslims and displaced thousands more is sitting in front of me, calmly...
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Anarchists in São Paulo Rioted Against the World Cup This Weekend
About 2,500 people marched through the streets to the centre of São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday to protest against the cost of hosting the World Cup. The sun was beating down and the temperature was...
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Video Games Killed the Radio Star: Hey Snobs, Stop Hating On Video Games
A screenshot from Journey I couldn’t watch Charlie Brooker’s How Videogames Changed the World when it was initially broadcast in late November. But I did have one eye on Twitter, following the...
View ArticleA Wearable Book Feeds You Its Characters' Emotions As You Read
A Wearable Book Feeds You Its Characters' Emotions As You Read
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