When the USSR finally collapsed in 1991, most of Eastern Europe’s caviar-puking oligarchs got busy buying up all the expensively-built factories and refineries that sat abandoned across the old...
Now, before you little turd-burglars race down to the comments section to joyfully remind me that Morphsuits™ were in the ’Don’ts’ recently, take into consideration that one VICE contributor’s trash ...
In the 1960s, Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller families bought a plot of land near Wickford in Essex; a small town 30 miles east of Greater London. Back then, that plot of land was a mess; an abandon...
Lots of People Spent a Lot of Time Thinking About the 9/11 Attacks (via) It’s been ten years since 9/11 and the anniversary was marked in America by a huge festival of sadness. Four separate mi...
Every week Richard Kern invites us to his L.E.S. apartment where we go through a huge box of archival photographs from his long and checkered career. This week’s featured model is Mel, a cute French ...
I was holding my five-month-old son this morning and thought it would be fun to listen to some music and sway with him a bit. He can’t quite dance yet. It was a grey morning, so I put on “The Chauffe...
At the moment I’m on a Red Bull skate trip that started in New Jersey and ends in Miami for Skateboarder magazine. Yesterday I was in my hotel room iChatting about my son’s teething with my wife when...
Many think of Smash as a rancid potato slop bulked up with sawdust, marketed at people too lazy to breathe, let alone squash a potato. But these people are chumps. Unimaginative chumps, who know noth...
I’m stood at the top of a wooded hill on the outskirts of Argelaguer in northern Catalunya. More precisely, I’m on the 70th step of a 35-metre high tower built out of fallen branches and ...
The worst thing that ever happened, reviewed by men who can’t possibly grasp what it means yet.(...)Read the rest of TELEVISIONARIES! - 9/11 SPECIAL (762 words) © Alex for Viceland.com, 20...
Back in 1820, hard Russian Tsar Nicholas I built a massive prison on the Baltic coast just outside of Tallinn, which was so good at making prisoners cower remorsefully before the might of the hegemon...
My name is John Doran and I write about music. The young bucks who run VICE’s website thought it would be amusing to employ a 40-year-old man who is old enough to remember not being that bothered whe...
Last weekend, the TV studios of Britain were alive with the sound of Alistair ‘Interesting’ Darling and his sonorous voice. He doesn’t mind if you think he’s boring, because h...
Have you noticed how many unmarried black women there are just walking around in the streets at the moment? No, can’t say I have either, but Stanford Law Professor Ralph Banks has just written ...
Tonight, England play Wales in a football game. But that is not the most interesting game of football that is happening this evening, because everyone knows England will eventually labour to a dull, ...
Every summer, the people of the Faroe Islands get to play their favourite game: trapping and slaughtering pilot whales.This ritual is known as the grindadráp, or dráp if you’re down with the local ar...
Protecting our homes from looters and robbers. Making the EDL look like idiots. And now, doing the Macarena Skank at Carnival with hot Asian girls (blates DTF) and boying off fat lasses at 00:56. It&...
On Saturday, the 3rd of September, 1,000 bald heads caught trains into central London and went bobbing along the underground to Aldgate tube. These bald heads belonged to the English Defence League, ...
They’ve spent two years boasting about it and, this weekend, they finally did it: the EDL went to the East London borough of Tower Hamlets to confront the Islamo-fascists whose beliefs threaten...
I’m from West Virginia, where burning couches is a part of everyday life. People in Morgantown who normally keep to themselves will gather round ye burning couch and breathe in the fumes to dan...
THAT THING ABOUT BRITISH PEOPLE HAVING A SUPERIOR ‘SENSE OF FAIR PLAY’ TOOK A BIT OF A HAMMERING (via) Evidence has emerged that MI5 and MI6 have been involved in the torture of suspected...
This short film is by Sean Vegezzi, who gave us the cover photo for our “Teetering On The Brink” Issue. It’s about Hurricane Irene and how it affected Manhattan. ie NBD IRL. © ...
This week’s television, reviewed by the blind.(...)Read the rest of TELEVISIONARIES! (795 words) © Alex for Viceland.com, 2011. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: TV...
Every week Richard Kern invites us to his L.E.S. apartment where we go through a huge box of archival photographs from his long and checkered career. This week’s featured model is Jennifer, a mum wit...
Everybody’s into politics these days. When Britain awoke from its slumbers a few weeks back to find all its Currys Digitals gently smouldering in the early morning mist, suddenly, it had the urge to ...
Dear Katy Perry, I heard your song “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” recently and I felt compelled to write to you and share my analysis. Lyrically, it’s basically just an attempt to piece together a cr...
If homeless charity Crisis is to be trusted – and if you can’t trust a homeless charity, who can you trust? – it seems that things are about to get pretty al dente for the middle classes. The s...
A rush of articles (two) declared the cupcake dead after the ‘whoopie pie’ arrived in London and ravenous housewives body-slammed each other in the food hall at Harrods to get first dibs on this US i...
Some firsts tend to stay with you. Whether it be your first, horrible washing-machine-tongue kiss, that first fight you invariably lost, or the first time you heard The Smiths and immediately knew wh...
My name is John Doran and I write about music. The young bucks who run VICE’s website thought it would be amusing to employ a 40-year-old man who thinks that the Kardashians are a race of aliens from...
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