I Got Shanghaied
Image via I went to Shanghai with the idea that I might casually get laid. My loser low confidence – at bars, parties; any hook-up situation with which pensive celibates are obsessed – would finally...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to despair at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: Leanda Probert screencap via The incident: A black woman was sent a computer generated password...
View ArticleMunchies: Seamus Mullen
Seamus Mullen is a James Beard nominated chef and owner of Tertulia, a Spanish restaurant located in Manhattan’s West Village. We dropped into the restaurant to pay him a visit, but Seamus was busy...
View ArticleAsk Us Questions About Our Film 'Young and Gay in Putin's Russia'
When Russian President Vladimir Putin banned gay "propaganda" in June last year, Russia's LGBT community went from being a stigmatised fringe group to full-blown enemies of the state. Homophobia...
View ArticleWatch the Black Lips' Video for "Boys in the Wood"
Watch the Black Lips' Video for "Boys in the Wood"
View ArticleRainbow Report: The Week in LGBT: Smoking Will (Not) Make Your Baby Gay
Photo by Ív and Candie This week, a Dutch neuroscientist called Dick Swaab (yep) claimed in his new book that smoking, drug use and stress during pregnancy can affect the sexuality of a child. In We...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - What's Next in the Snowden Saga?
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to...
View ArticleDenmark’s Controversial Teenage Muslim Superstar Poet
Photo by Morten Holtum (Courtesy of Gyldendal) Yahya Hassan is an 18-year-old Muslim Palestinian immigrant to Denmark who has become a social critic, celebrity writer and general shit-stirrer – all...
View ArticleBarricades Were Burning Again in Kiev Last Night
The ceasefire brokered on Thursday in Kiev between police and Euromaidan protesters didn't hold out; last night, the barricades were burning again. More government buildings were stormed in other...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Sarah Palin Complains About "the Race Card" and a Black...
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 common complaint I,...
View ArticleTherapy with Steve Girard, AKA Stevie Eats Worms
I hate to keep coming back to this, but after I gargled my piss on the internet I received a lot of heartfelt missives from urine enthusiasts the world over. One very intrusive fan even searched my...
View ArticleThe Hangover News
Depressing Anniversaries OVER 50 PEOPLE WERE REPORTED DEAD AFTER VIOLENCE IN EGYPT Protesters and security forces clashed on the third anniversary of the anti-Mubarak revolt (via) At least 54 people...
View ArticleI Went to a D-List Celebrity Botox Party
The author with (from left) Tashera Simmons, Cheryl Caruso and Myla Sinanaj. D-list celebrities are different from you or me. The oft-derided “famous for being famous” folk who dominate reality...
View ArticleIf the Drug War Is Failing, Where'd All the Cocaine Go?
The crew of the CGC Forward assembles 88 bales of seized cocaine off the coast of Honduras. Photo via US Coast Guard Toward the end of last year, the DEA published its 2013 National Drug Threat...
View ArticleThe "Burmese bin Laden" Swears He's a Good Guy
Photos by Andrew Stanbridge The Buddhist monk many people hold responsible for the Myanmar riots that have killed hundreds of Muslims and displaced thousands more is sitting in front of me, calmly...
View ArticleAnarchists in São Paulo Rioted Against the World Cup This Weekend
About 2,500 people marched through the streets to the centre of São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday to protest against the cost of hosting the World Cup. The sun was beating down and the temperature was...
View ArticleThis Guy Puts Gay Porn in Putin's Face
The other day I received an email that my email provider considered to be junk mail because the subject line read “Naughty Russia”. I know what you’re thinking. But this time it wasn’t a promo from...
View ArticleEvery Woman: Life as a Truck-Stop Stripper - Part One
Everyone knows what charming places strip clubs can be, but perhaps there is no club so charming as one in Moriarty, New Mexico – a truck stop with taxidermy and the bras of former employees on the...
View ArticleSDU Are Broke As a Joke
In Sweden, it can be profitable business to set up youth organisations because Ungdomsstyrelsen (the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs) hand out large amounts of grants every year. The only...
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