Is Tabloid Outrage Just Getting More People into Legal Highs?
Some dried out salvia. (Image via) The British tabloid media has a love-hate relationship with legal highs. At the same rate that the drugs are being invented by the Chinese party chemists eager to...
View ArticleMurderous Fanatics and EDL Idiots Brought Darkness to Woolwich Yesterday
Yesterday afternoon in Woolwich, South London, two men ran over a soldier from the local army barracks, before getting out of their car and hacking at his body with machetes, while shouting "Allahu...
View ArticleI Went to a Beach Party with Loads of Rich Kid Egyptians
DJ Emil Lange smoking shisha. The other day, I got a phone call from my Danish DJ friend, Emil Lange. "I’m supposed to play an hour-long hip-hop set at some beach in Hurghada on the Egyptian coast,"...
View ArticleDeportee Purgatory
Avimael, “El Cocho,” and his girlfriend Marta Gomez, 42, sit inside their ñongo, which Cocho dug alongside the Tijuana River canal. Photos by David Maung. Each year, more than 30 million people flow...
View ArticlePlease Start Banning Books Again
It’s been a while since anything besides people and their weapons seemed dangerous in America. There’s a lot of attention – and a great deal of money – spent on determining where the next physical...
View ArticleVICE News: Triple Hate - Part 2
NEWS The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again Is a Park in Memphis, Tennessee, the Epitome of Racism in Modern America? The KKK Say It’s Just History, Many Others Disagree By Rocco Castoro A...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: 'Leviathan,' I Love You
On a Tuesday night, the Music Hall theatre in Beverly Hills was seemingly empty. I arrived an hour early for the 10 PM screening of Leviathan. I walked in thinking it was a poetic documentary about...
View ArticleSpeaking with Adam Kokesh, Before He Was Detained by the Feds
Photo by Maria Izaurralde Last week, I spoke to activist and libertarian talk show host Adam Kokesh. Less than 24 hours later he was taken into custody by federal agents. Kokesh is a former Iraq War...
View ArticleGeorge's Fun Happy Place
George came into my life five years ago, during a trip to Coney Island shortly after I had moved to New York. I was 18, painfully awkward, and having trouble making friends – especially with people my...
View ArticleSpanish Bombs: Granada Unveils Joe Strummer Plaza
Punk rock was never meant to gain municipal recognition, but with time it often occurs that what was once rebellion becomes part of the establishment. Joe Strummer of the Clash has been no stranger to...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: How Do you Feel About the Stockholm Riots?
Over the course of the past week, rioters from the largely immigrant suburb of Husby, in Stockholm, have been beating on police officers, hurling rocks through windows and setting cars ablaze. The...
View ArticleWhat Does Terrorism Mean in 2013?
On Wednesday a soldier, Lee Rigby, was fatally stabbed by two men sporting knifes and a meat cleaver. Before being shot by police, the attackers taunted their onlookers, asking them to take photos and...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Enloe High School and Raleigh Police Department (Thanks Charlie for the tip-off) The incident: Some kids threw some water balloons. The appropriate response: Nothin' The actual response:...
View ArticleMilf Teeth: In Ibiza with Endless House
I had forgotten how much I love airports. Their soothing non-placeness. Where you can accidentally spend 50 pounds because it isn't real, it's an interzone. The way they always feel like someone...
View ArticleWe Watched the Stockholm Suburbs Burn
This week, it felt like the 2011 British riots were starting all over again in the Stockholm suburb of Husby. A man was shot dead by police and the local community started a demonstration. The...
View ArticleIn Search of Tim Dog, the Rapper Turned Con Artist who Probably Faked His Own...
In Search of Tim Dog, the Rapper Turned Con Artist who Probably Faked His Own Death
View ArticleFashion Tidbits Roundup: David Bowie, Glitter and Topless Abercrombie Models
A weekly roundup of anything fashion-related that's made us excited about having bodies that we can dress with clothes. DAVID BOWIE STILL GOT IT David Bowie is one of those people who you’d imagine...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Turning CCTV Footage into Art
Executives, a painting by William Betts. We're constantly being spied on by closed-circuit television cameras, those electronic eyes peering down at us and monitoring everything we do. But as...
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