VICE News: Turkey's Border Wars – Dispatch 1
Turkey has closed its border with Syria as Islamic State militants battle Kurdish forces in the Syrian border town of Kobane. Turkish checkpoints and tanks ensure that no one enters or exits the town,...
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My Father, the Pornographer
A young Kristin Battista-Frazee with her mother and father, Anthony Battista, one of the most successful pornographers in the world. (All images courtesy of Kristin Battista-Frazee) Porn as we know it...
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Photographing the Beautiful Weirdos of Los Angeles
Larchmont Village, Los Angeles, CA 2014 If you're like me and enjoy roaming the streets photographing strange and wonderful people, then Los Angeles is heaven. The Grove, Larchmont Village, Santa...
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Egg Freezing Should Be Available to Every Woman
A scientist cryopreserving ovarian tissue strips (Photo via) On Tuesday, tech monoliths Apple and Facebook announced that they’ll now pay for female employees who want to have their eggs frozen. It’s...
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It's Official – We Won Ten Lovie Awards!
A couple of weeks ago we asked you for your votes in the Lovie Awards. This week, it was announced that we've won in ten categories, pretty much placing us as the best of the web, the dons of the...
View ArticleI Bought a Used Japanese Fantasy Game and Now I'm in Another Man's Fan Fiction
I Bought a Used Japanese Fantasy Game and Now I'm in Another Man's Fan Fiction
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Coco Capitán's Inscrutable Self-Portraits
From the series 'No Homework on Sundays.' All images courtesy of the artist On the surface, Coco Capitán’s photographic self-portraits may look intimate, or personal. But these starkly beige shots of...
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A Theme Park Wrote a Terrible Play to Make Fun of Me
Last year, I wrote an article about Universal Studios Hollywood's annual Halloween-themed show, Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure. In the article, I called the show homophobic (which it...
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I Went to a Weed Fight Club
Photos by Natalie Shmuel We were practicing capoeira – or, perhaps more precisely, Harrison Tesoura Schultz, the founder of the 420 Fight Club, was practicing vapoeira. I was kind of flailing around...
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Why Is Salvia So Uniquely Terrifying?
Salvia is still legal in many states. Photo via Flickr user Seth Anderson Bad trips are a looming possibility when consuming any hallucinogenic drug, but one seems to evoke terror more predictably...
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Afroman Remade His Most Famous Song, Because He Got High
When Afroman recorded "Because I Got High" in 2000, it became a stoner anthem almost instantly. It was the kind of song that inspired kids to roll up a joint, roll down their windows, and aimlessly...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Beheaded 59 People So Far This Year – But Hardly Anyone is...
Saudi Arabia Beheaded 59 People So Far This Year – But Hardly Anyone is Talking About It
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Protesters Staged an Anti-Homophobia Kiss-in at a Supermarket Last Night
When I arrived in Brighton as an 18-year-old, I expected to find some sort of queer paradise: the kind of place where rainbow flags lined the streets and poodles and gimps crawled interchangeably on...
View ArticleThe Islamic State May Be Using Saddam's Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds
The Islamic State May Be Using Saddam's Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds
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VICE Vs Video Games: Hey Video Game Developers, We're Not Idiots
All screen grabs from Alien: Isolation There’s a bit in The Fellowship of the Ring where the main characters go to a boring rural committee meeting called the Council of Elrond. After discussing some...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Zoklet, the Forum of Bad Ideas
The Rise and Fall of Zoklet, the Forum of Bad Ideas
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Why Do Some of Us Feel Sad After an Orgasm?
Illustration by Chris Harward Ever feel inexplicably sad after an orgasm? I don’t mean the abject horror of realising your flatmate has silently, wordlessly, walked in and out of your room while you...
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A Few Impressions: My Book List While I Prepare for My Oral Exams in English...
Image by Gerard Weber For the past year or so I’ve been preparing for my oral exams in English literature at Yale. Through all that time, it seemed like every free moment was filled with reading. Ask...
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