A Few Impressions: 'Salò' Revisited
Image by Courtney Nicholas Not long ago I caught a double feature of portraits of creative types at the IFC Theater on 6th Avenue in New York: Noah Baumbach’s great Frances Ha, starring Greta Gerwig...
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Sorry Guys, We're About to Ruin Your Childhood
View ArticleThis Drug Dealer Is in Hiding from Saudi Arabia's Religious Police
Afghan hash imported into Saudi Arabia. (Photos courtesy of the interviewee) On the phone, Saudi contraband dealer Abdullah* sounds nervous. He was extremely hesitant about talking to me in the first...
View ArticleI'm Being Cyberbullied by Corey Feldman
As some of you may have seen, I recently wrote an article about attending Corey Feldman's birthday party. Corey told me that I was only allowed to write about the party if he had final approval on my...
View ArticleJapan Wants to Move Families Back to Radioactive Fukushima
(Image courtesy of Daniel Mueller / Greenpeace) Over two years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the situation is still looking grim. The water used to cool the nuclear reactors...
View ArticleShorties: The Art of Taboo - Ren Hang
Being a radical artist in China is a pretty tricky prospect. Considering censors banned paradigm of inoffensive banality Katy Perry from the country's airwaves for supposedly being too vulgar (and not...
View ArticleGlastonbury 2014 Festival Headliners: What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Glastonbury 2014 Festival Headliners: What's the Worst That Could Happen?
View ArticlePeople in UK Parliament Really Like Pornography
People in UK Parliament Really Like Pornography
View ArticleFemen: 'We're Not Run by Men'
Femen members practising their protest techniques in their Paris HQ. The topless feminist activists of Femen have had a rough few months. Since we made a film about them earlier this year, three...
View ArticleBig Night Out: The Drum 'n' Bass Night
Following his recent forays into gabber and psytrance, Clive Martin travels to the home counties to breathe in the Lynx Africa at a drum 'n' bass night. The scene has been a rave gateway for...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Are Chemical Weapons Actually Useful in a War?
A Syrian soldier aiming an AK-47 while wearing a chemical warfare mask. (Photo via) Chemical warfare is actually pretty rare. When Syrian government forces allegedly attacked Ghouta with nerve agents...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: How Can We Make Sex Education Better?
Nick Clegg – a man with lots of opinions about sexual education. (Photo via) Nick Clegg has "very strong views" on sex education. Which I suppose is something that's useful to know. He says that,...
View ArticleThe Abortion Freedom Riders
There’s no disputing that, here in the US, there seems to be some kind of state-level legislative epidemic hellbent on condemning female reproductive rights for ever more. Never mind the explosive...
View ArticleA Chat With Abidaz About His Latest Video
Rap doesn’t really make sense to people if they don’t understand what the lyrics are about. So we usually don’t write much about Swedish speaking rappers because not many of our readers understand a...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to name and shame the week's biggest pussies. Cry-Baby #1: Samuel Drew Screencaps via WCTI12 (via Reddit) The incident: A dog got in a man's way while he was walking over a...
View ArticleThe Wu-Tang Clan Talk Obama, Gay Rap and ODB
The Wu-Tang Clan are 20 years old. And unlike other musicians who've made it to the double-decade mark, they've never had to rely on endlessly repackaging greatest hits albums or playing matinee shows...
View ArticleLil Bub & Friendz: Lil Bub & Friendz - Part 4
VICE's Lil Bub & Friendz is the award-winning, heartwarming story of the internet’s favourite cat and her sensational rise to international fame, starring Lil Bub, Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard...
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