Meet the Internet Witches of Etsy
Some spells for sale on Etsy right now – thank god it's payday Victoria Zasikowski is an Etsy witch. Her profile bills her as a “professional astrologer and practitioner of Hoodoo Magick”, while her...
View ArticleThe Syrian Civil War Is Keeping Lovers Apart
A Syrian bride makes her way to the Golan Heights, crossing the Israeli-Syrian border in her wedding dress with her fiancé. Photos by Andrea & Magda/ICRC. In the hilltop town of Majdal Shams,...
View ArticleIs New York’s Latest Graffiti Crackdown Backfiring?
5Pointz, a graffiti Mecca in Queens, which is now no more. (Photo via Flickr user Sauvage Ocèane) In 1994, ten months after winning the New York City mayor's office for the first time, Rudy Giuliani...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Californian Cops Stole a Suspects' Nude Photos as a 'Game'
California Highway Patrol officers are into the whole stealing-nude-photos thing, too. Photo via Flickr user Calvin Fleming A California Highway Patrol officer has admitted to sending nude or...
View ArticleThe Time John Waters’s Girls Escaped a Kidnapping
Mink Stole and Susan Lowe, 1969. Photo courtesy of Susan Lowe Excerpted from Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller, which was published in September by Bbooks Verlag. The Cookie Mueller quotes were...
View ArticleBeauty Products for Your Weird Melting Face
Motel Top PHOTOGRAPHY: FREEL AND GORSE STYLING: KYLIE GRIFFITHS Makeup and hair: Jessica Cheetham Models: Lydia at Models 1 and Estelle at M and P Motel top Top from Beyond Retro Shirt from Black...
View ArticleA Visit to Rob Zombie's Haunted House... On Acid!
I'd never been to a haunted house before, so when I heard Rob Zombie was bringing his Great American Nightmare to my city, I figured I'd check it out. After reading some of the descriptions ("a...
View ArticleUnder the Clouds of Süleymaniye
Behind Istanbul's Süleymaniye Mosque lies a historic district that, decades ago, teemed with life. It was "the real Istanbul," nostalgic locals will tell you. But now the area is a different world,...
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: Some guy in Florida Screencap via Google Maps The incident: A dog took a shit in someone's front...
View ArticleVICE Vs Video Games: A Disgusting History of Gore in Video Games
Illustration by Patrick R Allan If you came to games fresh during the previous console generation, where once-grainy graphics made the switch to full-HD, you don't know how easy you've had it. There...
View ArticleBritain's Most Relentless Nudist Keeps Getting Locked Up
Stephen Gough, the Naked Rambler (Screen shot via) The Naked Rambler has never hurt anyone, but he'll be in prison for longer than Oscar Pistorius. In fact, Stephen Gough has already served twice...
View ArticleRoma Immigrants in Ireland Are Under Attack
Police at the scene of the attack (Photo via Twitter) At 4PM last Saturday, over 200 locals met in the centre of Waterford, a small city in Ireland's south east. They marched to the home of a local...
View ArticleHow to Move on from Having Your Skull Crushed to Pieces
Image via I spent three months comatose, hooked up to a life support machine in the Royal London Hospital after being run over by a hit-and-run driver in the early hours of New Years Day 2010. My...
View ArticleVICE News: Greece's Anti-Fascist Uprising
In September 2013, Greek authorities took the unprecedented action of arresting a number of members of the far-right political organisation Golden Dawn - including its leader, Nikos Michaloliakos. In...
View ArticleThe VICE Report: Dying for Treatment – Part 1
In the United States, more people between the ages of 25 and 64 die of complications from drugs than car crashes. According to a 2009 study published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
View ArticleThis Device Will Stop You from Getting High in Hotel Rooms and Dorms
Images courtesy of Joseph BelBruno If you're one of those ardent smokers who goes off on a rant about "freedom" when someone tells you you aren't allowed to light up on an airplane, it's already hard...
View ArticleHooligans: A Formula for Self Destruction
There are dozens of hooligan groups in Ukraine. They formed independently of football clubs by aligning with German and British fans. When I accompanied the hooligans on their trips and to fights from...
View ArticleVICE News: The VICE News Interview: Abdullah Elshamy
On August 14, 2013, Al Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy was arrested in Egypt. Though he was never charged, he was accused of helping the Muslim Brotherhood by writing stories that were "harmful to...
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