Civil War Killed Lebanon's Vinyl Culture
Ernesto Chahoud, owner of Darsko record store, in Beirut Below a canopy of electric wires on a narrow street in Bourj Hamoud, an Armenian neighbourhood in east Beirut, a small group of pensioners sit...
View ArticleVICE Is Ten: 2004 - 2014: The (ex) Biggest Heroin Dealer In The Whole Wide World
By the time Suleyman Ergun was 21 years old, he was the world’s most prolific and powerful seller of smack. Known throughout the junkie and police communities as the North London Turk, Ergun and his...
View ArticleIn Photos: Demonstrations for Missing Students Swell in Mexico and Across the...
In Photos: Demonstrations for Missing Students Swell in Mexico and Across the World
View ArticleShorties: Shorties: A Quick Chat with Russell Brand
Russell Brand made his name as a provocateur, but recently his voice of dissent has grown louder and louder, threatening to drown out the clownish Booky Wook image he spent a decade building....
View ArticleNorth Korea to Become First Country to Shut Borders over Ebola Fear
North Korea to Become First Country to Shut Borders over Ebola Fear
View ArticleSix Uniquely Terrifying Books for Halloween
It’s the time of year when everybody is celebrating autumn by carving faces into various squash plants and thinking about weird monsters. The time of year when friends put on a film about a guy who...
View ArticleGuess How Fucking Much Paris Hilton Makes DJing
Guess How Fucking Much Paris Hilton Makes DJing
View ArticleVICE Meets: Jason Schwartzman and Alex Ross Perry Discuss Their New Film,...
Writer and director Alex Ross Perry’s latest film, Listen Up Philip, stars Jason Schwartzman as a disgruntled novelist on the brink of success, grappling as it estranges him from his life. As Philip...
View ArticleJenna Jameson Is Writing Books and Telling Men to Stop Victim Shaming
Jenna Jameson during the 2006 AVN Awards at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic. Over the past 15 years, Jenna Jameson has gone from being the world’s most famous porn...
View ArticleEbola Reaches New York; Everything Is Fine
What Ebola looks like up close. Photo via Flickr user NIAID Until Thursday evening, no one in New York cared much about where a man named Craig Spencer had gone or what he had done. Now his movements...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Some Books That Defy the Straight White Male Tradition
Image by Gerry Weber Last week I published a portion of my reading list for grad school. Looking back on it, I realised how few women or writers of color I included, and I think it misrepresented the...
View ArticleEver Wondered What Goths Wear to the Beach?
Sasha Louise at Kim West Latex top, Topman Design trousers PHOTOGRAPHY: ALEX DE MORA STYLING: BETH RIVETT Make-up: Oonah Anderson using MAC Cosmetics Hair: Shiori Takahashi using Bumble and bumble...
View Article'Dinner with Igor' Will Make You Wish You Ate Brunch with More Porn Stars
Last month Nate "Igor" Smith—probably best known for running the party- and girl-centric photo blog Driven by Boredom—set up a Kickstarter to raise $1,000 for a book that would feature photos of his...
View ArticleLet's Talk About the Chuckle Brothers' Cultural Renaissance
The Chuckle Brothers with Tinchy Stryder (Screen shot via) Stone cold fact time: Paul Chuckle has reinvented the selfie. I say this as a man who cannot stand the word selfie, but – just for a second –...
View ArticleUganda Is Using Adult Circumcision Rituals to Attract Tourism
The launch of the 2008 Imbalu ceremony in Mbale. Photo via Flickr user buhugu.org This August, thousands of locals and foreigners descended upon the hills and plains of the rural Mbale District, a...
View ArticleA West London Drug Gang's Selfies Are Sending Them to Prison
Sophian Chhayra (left & right) and Zakaria Chentouf (centre) took these selfies and now they're going to prison Hey, what’s the dumbest reason you’ve ever been arrested? One time the police came...
View ArticleDr. Atul Gawande Wants Us to Die Better
Photo by Tim Llewellyn A few weeks ago, I interviewed mortician Caitlin Doughty and she talked how bad end-of-life care is for many (usually elderly) Americans. One of the people whose work she cited...
View ArticleVICE News: Turkey's Border War – Part 5
When Islamic State militants attacked the Syrian border town of Kobane, 180,000 civilians fled in fear to neighbouring Turkey. Weeks later, the Turkish state tightened the control of its borders,...
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