This is a special edition of Vice edited by Gabi Sifre and Thomas Morton. Special thanks to Ellis Jones,
Tom Cheshire, and Millie de Chirico for their help in putting it together. Cover photo by Justin Hadley.
 THE VICE GUIDE TO ATLANTA
Some southern towns make you feel like you're in another time. When you're in Mobile or Charleston with all the Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks, or New Orleans with all the ghetto voodoo vibes, you really feel like there's something to that whole south...READ MORE |
  BASIC STUFF
GETTING AROUND
First off, you need a car. You may have seen signs at the airport attesting to the speed and reliability of our mass-transit system, MARTA, but if this were actually the case they wouldn't need to advertise it so strongly. If possibl...READ MORE |
 PRECIOUS MEM'RIES
It is way too fucking soon to start scrapbooking and nostalgizing over the Atlanta music scene, but that doesn’t mean you can't enjoy a couple little pages of slightly old pictures right? Just think of them as a tiny friendship wall, on the bedroom of YOUR MIN...READ MORE |
 THE Ps AND THE Qs
In general, southerners are a little less brusque and a little more into manners than the rest of the country. This doesn't mean you have to call the cashier at Burger King ma'am, but it wouldn't kill you to phrase your order as a question instead of going, "Y...READ MORE |
 HOW TO WRECK YOUR HEAD
A Guide for Drinkers
Somehow, in spite of 18th-century blue laws and some of the most uncrossable streets in the country, Atlanta is a really good town to get smashed in. A lot of bars are situated in little clusters so you can park the car and go from place to place without being...READ MORE |
 THE FILTHY FIVE
I moved here 16 years ago a handsome man. That is no longer the case. This town is like New Orleans. The people wear it on their face. The whole city is on pills and and everyone rides a BMX bike. This is where I drink. Here you go. Enjoy.
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 HOW TO GET LAID BY A MAN
If You Are Also a Man
As Eric Rudolph learned the hard way, you can't blow up the gay dive scene in Atlanta. It's just too strong. Whether by dint of heat or from being sequestered on a 100-square-mile island of sanctuary amid a sea of churning, virulent homophobia, gay Atlanta com...READ MORE |
 HOW TO EAT FOOD
A Guide for People With Stomachs
One thing Atlantans are into is putting food into their mouths and then eating it. Sound fun? Here are a few places to give it a try.
MARY MAC'S TEA ROOM
This is where you should go to have some of that southern cooking you keep hearing about....READ MORE |
 RECORD ROOMS
When I walk into a room filled with records, my pulse jumps, my temperature rises, and for an instant I feel something akin to happiness. I don't know if there is such a thing as a bad independent record store. If there is one, it is not mentioned here. What f...READ MORE |
 HOW TO SHOOT FIRE OUT OF YOUR CROTCH
If You Have a Vagina
When I was 21, I went on tour with a circus. At a stop in Minneapolis, I met a girl named Gwenevere. She pulled me aside, shoved a canister of butane up her pussy, and lit it on fire. My mind was blown.
Five months later, I returned to Atlanta with my new...READ MORE |
 STUFF FOR SOBERS
THE JIMMY CARTER LIBRARY
The library is pretty much the snore-job you'd expect, but if you go around back there's a big waterfall in the woods that's the perfect place to relax and quietly secrete all the previous night's toxins. A few people think...READ MORE |
 MASTODON
Mastodon is a heavy-metal band from Atlanta. They live at El Myr, wrote a song called "Mother Puncher," and think upside-down rainbows are totally underrated. So we sat down with bandmates Brent Hinds and Brann Dailor as they geared up to headline Atlanta's ve...READ MORE |
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