Mexicalia: Mexican Narco Music Is the Soundtrack to the War on Drugs - Part 1
Mexico's narcocorrido music genre and subculture openly celebrate the most extreme aspects of the country's drug war. The songs are filled with catchy, detailed narrations of beheadings, executions,...
View ArticleThis Subreddit Tells You Exactly How Ugly You Are
The AmIUgly subreddit homepage. Do you have deep-set insecurity issues? Are you constantly looking for validation from family members, colleagues and retail staff? Instead of bothering your mum or...
View ArticleA Butt-Based Fashion Shoot
Vintage skirt, Topshop shoes, Gogo Philip jewellery PHOTOGRAPHER: CHARLOTTE RUTHERFORD STYLIST: CLARISSA BOWMAN Make-up and nails: Holly Silius using Mac Pro and H&H nails Models: Chiara Maura...
View ArticleParis Hilton Is the Most Underrated Pop Star of All Time
Exclusive photos courtesy of Paris Hilton Paris Hilton is better than you. This is an indisputable fact. You might think she's “famous for being famous,” but while her trust-fund-kid peers lived off...
View ArticleDowned Planes and Burnt Corpses in Eastern Ukraine
Downed Planes and Burnt Corpses in Eastern Ukraine
View ArticleThe VICE Guide To Europe 2014: The VICE Guide to Glasgow 2014
Return to The VICE Guide to Europe 2014 homepage (Photo by Patrick D Bortz) Edinburgh might have the castle, the parliament, the Japanese tourists, the neo-classical architecture and the...
View ArticleA Visit to One of Germany's All-You-Can-Fuck Brothels
The King George Brothel in Berlin opens at 4 PM, Monday through to Sunday, excluding the Christmas Holidays. For €99 you can stay there until dawn, when the first street cleaners are passing, and...
View ArticleVICE News: Sahara's Forgotten War - Part 1
If you ask the linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, the Arab Spring did not begin in Tunisia in 2011, but with the October 2010 protests in the town of Gdeim Izik, in Western Sahara's occupied...
View ArticleCosplay Is Not Consent: Exploring the Dark Side of Adult Dress-Up
All photos courtesy of Vivid Vivka Since it started popping up in the 80s, cosplay has become an essential part of geek culture events and conventions, with at least one costume contest or fashion...
View ArticleIs Macedonia on the Brink of Another Ethnic Conflict?
The Macedonian capital of Skopje saw its second angry Albanian demonstration in as many weeks on Friday. A week previously on the 4th of July, the city’s Albanian minority rioted against the outcome...
View ArticleLatvia's Former KGB Headquarters Are No Longer Stained with Blood
Thanks to its thriving sex industry, cheap beer and even cheaper accommodation, Riga – for some tourists, at least – is synonymous with stag weekends and the kind of lads holidays that end in black...
View ArticleVICE Profiles: VICE Meets: Matthew Lesko's Life Lessons
VICE meets Matthew Lesko, the self-proclaimed federal grant researcher and infomercial personality who made it big in his "question mark" suit. He has written more than 20 books telling people how to...
View ArticleVICE News: Rockets and Revenge - Part 3
Hamas and other militant groups have been raining crude rockets into Israel since Operation Protective Edge launched last week – more than 1,000 at the last count. Thanks to the Israeli missile...
View ArticleThis Is How You Leave Facebook
Nick Briz is a Chicago-based new media artist, educator and organiser. He teaches at the Marwen Foundation and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has shown his work internationally and is the...
View ArticleRemembering Srebrenica on the Anniversary of the 1995 Balkans Massacre
Muslim women whose relatives were killed in the massacre outside the Srebrenica-Potočari memorial in Srebrenica, Bosnia. All photos by the author In mid-July 1995, over 8,000 “Bosniaks” (Bosnian...
View Article'Drunk Mum' Tells Us What It's Like to Raise a Kid As an Alcoholic
All photos courtesy of Jowita Bydlowska Drunk Mom is a rarity in this age of constant overshares – a work that had me questioning, "Does she want us to know this? Should I know this?" as I read it....
View ArticleThis Canadian Model Has More Face Tattoos Than You
Photo via Instagram. There’s something admirably misanthropic about getting a face tattoo. You really need to be fully committed to having a somewhat shitty life to let a stranger draw something on...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 56
Although pro-Russia separatists have been largely driven out of Donetsk and Luhansk, they still control significant parts of eastern Ukraine. In this part, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky goes...
View ArticleA Malaysian Passenger Jet Was 'Shot Down' Over Eastern Ukraine
A Malaysian Passenger Jet Was 'Shot Down' Over Eastern Ukraine
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