There's a Black Market for British Heroin Addicts Who Can't Inject
Illustration by Cei Willis Injecting heroin isn’t for everyone. Your classmates who broke down in tears queuing for their BCG jab. Anyone who refuses to go to Sri Lanka because they’d rather avoid...
View ArticleDanish Cops Are Trying To Rehabilitate Jihadis Returning From Syria
Still from VICE documentary The Islamic State. Of the Danish Muslims who go to Syria, some want to do aid work, while some want to wage jihad. But very little is known about those who go to Syria...
View ArticleVICE News: An Invasive Species of Fish Is Taking Over America's Waterways
Asian carp – a slimy, ugly and often gargantuan species of fish – have taken over many waterways in the United States. First introduced in the US in the 1960s to control weeds and parasites at aquatic...
View ArticleParis Lees: Why Isn't It OK for Guys to Be Bi?
Image by Sam Taylor Tuesday wasn't just another day dealing with the weekend's comedown; it was Bisexual Visibility Day. Which got me thinking: 'Where exactly are all the bi guys?' I know a fair few...
View Article'MATTE' Magazine Presents Pixy (Yijun Liao)
MATTE magazine is a photography journal I started in 2010 as a way to shed light on good work by emerging photographers. Each issue features the work of one artist, and I shoot a portrait of him or...
View ArticleJapan Has a Dangerous Fetish for Packaging
Japan is one of the world’s foremost recyclers. In 2010, 77 percent of the country’s plastic waste was recycled, and recent reports put the figure for total amount of wastage sent to landfills at a...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Watch James Franco's Short Film, 'Goat Boy'
Goat Boy is the cobbled-together remains of a student film I made based on Frank Bidart's poem, “Herbert White”. These are the bits that were taken out of my adaptation because we didn't need...
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: How the Soviet-Afghan War Made the Taliban
Akbar Agha at his home in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photos courtesy First Draft Publishing In a new book called I Am Akbar Agha, the former Taliban insider recounts memories of jihad and the 1980s that...
View ArticleMichael White Is the Most Famous Person You’ve Never Heard of
Michael White - early 1970s. All photos courtesy of Michael White unless otherwise stated How do you begin to tell the story of a man who’s spent his life telling the stories of others? I'm sat on the...
View ArticleSaskatoon Is a Paradise
There’s an old adage that "Saskatoon's got nothing but hookers and hockey players," but despite the place having a bleak reputation, there's also a simmering underbelly of pure rock n' roll party...
View ArticleVICE News: Ghosts of Aleppo (Part 4)
Aleppo is Syria's largest metropolitan area and a millennia-old commercial capital. Today, however, it is a relative ghost town, threatened by regime bombing from the air and a militant offensive on...
View ArticleThe VICE Report: The Return of the Black Death - Part 1
news THE HOT ZONE Black Death Returns to Madagascar By Benjamin Shapiro #sb-body {overflow: auto !important; border: 0 !important; padding-right: 17px !important; background: none !important}...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Michael Harvey and Barbara Moore Screencap via Google Maps The incident: A McDonald's worker didn't...
View ArticleWatch Matthew Frost's New Short Film Starring Kirsten Dunst
Aspirational is a new short directed by fashion filmmaker and photographer Matthew Frost, the mastermind behind Fashion Film and a longtime VICE pal. Following his trio of Vogue shorts Best Actress of...
View ArticleVICE News: The Canadian Jihadist
Foreign fighters from all over the world have left their home countries to join the ranks of the Islamic State, and the militant group's lightning advance across Iraq and Syria this summer has helped...
View ArticleYannick Murphy Puts You in the Mind of a Serial Killer
I first discovered Yannick Murphy through her debut story collection, Stories in Another Language, published in 1987 by Knopf during its Gordon Lish era. While Lish has a reputation for being...
View ArticleNo One Listened to England’s Sex Gang Whistleblower
Rotherham Interchange, the front office for grooming gangs in the area The names of grooming victims and the security guard have been changed for their protection. In the centre of Rotherham is the...
View ArticleMy Best Friend Is Playing at Madison Square Garden Tonight
My Best Friend Is Playing at Madison Square Garden Tonight
View ArticleWe're Still Not Even Close to Saving the Planet After the Largest Climate...
David Cameron addressing delegates at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York. (Photo via Flickr user Number 10) As more than 120 world leaders came together in New York City for the largest climate...
View ArticleA Documentary on the Aborted Nicolas Cage/Tim Burton Superman Movie Is Coming...
Years before Christopher Nolan drastically altered the modern superhero genre, the late 1990s powerhouse trio of Tim Burton, Kevin Smith, and Nicolas Cage were poised to do the same. Unfortunately,...
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