Fringes: Stories from the Edge: Mr. Hálek's Fungus
By the time he received his calling from God, Václav Hálek was already firmly established as a concert pianist and composer in the Czechoslovakian classical music scene. Fortunately for Hálek, the...
View ArticleMovie Barn: Filming the Unfilmable
This seems a good time to gauge the filmic prospects of The Turner Diaries. I bought my copy – out of raw, morbid curiosity – at a Virginia gun show in the mid-1990s. Back then, the novel’s Banana...
View ArticleRevealing Bob Guccione, the Man Behind the Penthouse Empire
Cover by Hank Londoner. On a dark February evening, Jeremy Frommer, a former Wall Street trader turned entrepreneur and financier, spent the day overseeing a successful storage locker auction with his...
View ArticleWhy Is There a Photo of R-Patz in the Cuban Revolution Museum?
While I was in Havana recently, I paid a visit to El Museo de la Revolución. The Cuban Revolution Museum, housed in the former presidential palace, is still pockmarked with numerous bullet holes and...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to name and shame the week's biggest pussies. Cry-Baby #1: Frances Hena (via Gawker) The incident: An 11-year-old girl twerked at her school dance. The appropriate response:...
View ArticleThe Director of 'The Attack' Wants His Banned Film Pirated
Actor Ali Suliman looking over Nablus, a city in northern Palestine, courtesy of the director The lights turned on and Ziad Doueiri’s name appeared on the screen. I calmly gathered my things and then...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: When Was the Worst Time You Lost Your Temper?
The other day, Boris Johnson lost his temper in perhaps the most Oxbridge way possible: telling Labour's Andrew Dismore to "get stuffed". Dismore had accused the mayor of lying and his frustration...
View ArticleAn Interview with the Woman Who's On a Quest to Have Sex with 100,000 Men
Ania Lewiska. One young woman recently embarked on the noble quest to break the world record for amassing the largest number of sexual partners ever recorded. The fact that no such record even exists...
View ArticleNYFW Reviews: Opening Ceremony Made Us Bust a Nut
Fashion Week has hit New York City again, and big, fancy designers are showing their latest collections for spring / summer 2014. So, we went to a few shows to figure out what all the Tumblr...
View ArticleStop Saying Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System
Stop Saying Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System
View ArticleGucci Girls
The super special September issue of VICE was exclusively culled from the archives of Bob Guccione Sr – the legendary magazine publisher who built a media empire that started with Penthouse. This...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: A Waitress Got a Racial Slur Instead of a Tip
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist. - A Red Lobster in...
View ArticlePhotos of the Bad Part of Town
Tepito, Mexico City, Mexico. The great thing about Google Street View (aside from generating the occasional murder scare), is that it allows you to visit parts of your town that you would usually be...
View ArticleThe Hangover News
The Avoidance of War SYRIA ARE INTO RUSSIA'S CHEMICAL WEAPONS DEAL A minister said that handing over all their chemical weapons is a "victory" A suspected delivery of sarin gas. (Photo via) (via) The...
View ArticleDrake's "Wu-Tang Forever" Proves He's the Best Troll in Rap
Drake's "Wu-Tang Forever" Proves He's the Best Troll in Rap
View ArticleEvangelicals Are Resurrecting America's Dead Diseases with Vaccine Paranoia
Evangelicals Are Resurrecting America's Dead Diseases with Vaccine Paranoia
View ArticleFashion Week Reports: LFW: Sequins, Coal and Ham
It's London Fashion Week SS14, but you weren't invited to any shows. Feel skinny and important by reading these reports instead. Air kisses. PHOEBE ENGLISH Walking into Phoebe English on Saturday...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Might Think He Stopped the War by Accident – He Didn't
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry. If you picked up a newspaper a week or so ago, you would have felt pretty certain that even though the UK Parliament...
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