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VICE News: A Chinese Multimillionaire Duped New York's Homeless
When Chinese multimillionaire Chen Guangbiao placed ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal announcing he would buy lunch for 1,000 disadvantaged New Yorkers before handing them each $300,...
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Lasering Tats Is Big Business
Photo courtesy of Phil Marandola Across the United States, as you read this, people are getting ink needled onto their skin. More than a fifth of all Americans have tattoos, there are tens of...
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Mariah Carey's Butterfly Soda Tastes Like a UTI Prevention Supplement
Photo via Portable In the age of pop star proliferation, how does an aging diva promote her new album? How does she compete with younger peers who drop secret visual albums at midnight? If you’re...
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Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Talks About Conservative Gay Culture and Sex in...
All images via the Toronto International Film Festival For more than two decades the Canadian queercore auteur, writer, photographer, artist, (and VICE contributor), Bruce LaBruce has made films that...
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Meet the Pier Kids
Photos courtesy of Elegance Bratton If you’re gay in New York City, you’ve probably been to Christopher Street in the West Village to get drunk or visit the historic-landmark-turned-gay-tourist-trap...
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Samsara Is a Movie
Photos and film stills by Pawo Choyning Dorji When he was in film school, Khyentse Norbu wore pants. He liked to befriend people who didn’t believe in Buddhism. He liked to argue with them. He also...
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I Went to an All-Pink 'Beauty Pub' to Watch the World Cup Because I'm a Girl
Photo via Last week, I stumbled across news of the opening of a brand new pub in central London called the Gabbi's Head. Described by the Evening Standard as "a beautiful pop-up pub for women, a haven...
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View ArticleVICE Profiles: The Guardian Angel of Guatemala
By day, Dr. Jorge Chiu is a cardiothoracic surgeon. By night, he volunteers as a paramedic to help the violence-ridden streets of Guatemala City. There's no telling what he'll be dealing with on any...
View ArticleFlorida's Space Shuttle Ghost Town
Once upon a time, people had a good reason to visit Titusville, Florida. The seat of Brevard County was a great place to watch the space shuttles take off, and shops were kept in business by the...
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California Cops Are Using the Homeless for Hands-On Training
Photos by the author A California Highway Patrol (CHP) programme aimed at identifying drug users has been using the homeless as subjects in training exercises for officers. The programme has been...
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The Future of Video Games Is Bright and Migraine-Inducing
If you checked out of gaming sometime around Crash Bandicoot 2, you may not know that E3 is the largest computer game conference in the world. When you consider gaming is now Earth’s largest...
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The VICE Reader: Emily Gould on Her New Novel and the Future of Digital...
Photos courtesy of FSG Emily Gould’s Friendship came to me on a January day when I felt very ill, and very sorry for myself, so I took it like a shot in the arm. The plot involves the hopes and...
View ArticleRule Britannia: Bare Knuckle
Once regarded as something that happens exclusively in Guy Ritchie films and on gypsy sites, bare knuckle boxing is fast becoming a thriving scene in the UK – the ultimate British bloodsport. When...
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Why Cinema of Transgression Director Nick Zedd Stayed Underground
Photo of Nick Zedd by Richard Kern from 1984, courtesy of Nick Zedd and Fales Library, NYU It was a freezing Saturday night in 2004, and Nick Zedd was pushing a shopping trolley full of film reels...
View ArticleAnonymous-Affiliated Hackers Have Declared War on the Islamic State
Anonymous-Affiliated Hackers Have Declared War on the Islamic State
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The Speed of Hypocrisy: How America Got Hooked on Legal Meth
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Archiving the Art of the Financial Crisis
Carlos Spottorno, The Pigs They say an artist has to suffer for his art. If that's not pure bullshit, Southern Europe should have been undergoing a renaissance since 2008, when the global economic...
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