ARTICLES BY CHRISTI BRADNOX
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 WHO'S CUTER?
White Babies or Black Babies?That makes a great header and everything, but there's actually way more categories than that. There's "weird-race" babies, which are like Persian, Pakistani, or half Native American and half white, or whatever. Then there's all the Asia countries and...well, that's about it besides blacks and whites. A lot of rap and funk songs will try to convince you there's races like blue and red ...
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  VICE PICTURES
The Travel IssuePhotos by Todd Fisher, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Ryan McGinley, Christi Bradnox, Patrick O'Dell, Tim Barber, Jennifer Brommer, Glynnis McDaris, Vivian Joyner, Jeremiah Clancy, Caitlin Teal Price, Michelle Cortez, Isabel Asha Penzlien, Emily Vonta, Jodie Abrams, James Kendi & Chris Nieratko...
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 THE MILES-HIGH CLUB
Salvia Divinorum Takes You to Outer SpaceEvery Friday Andrew WK calls up the morning show on Chicago's Mancow 101.FM and tells them what he did last week. This week's call was different: "I did this weird drug called salvia divinorum," he said enthusiastically. After recognizing the awkward silence that followed, Andrew quickly changed the...
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 WAKE UP!
Dinks Kill PeopleLEAN
I'd like to hear silly stories, everyday stuff from regular people, but with a point. ...
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 LOOKING SPECIAL
The Special Olympics After-Party Was All ThatThis June, right as summer was kicking into full gear, we decided to check out the Special Olympics Summer Games After-Party over in Long Island. It ruled.
We spent the first hour or so freaking out at how much better the black dudes were at dancing than the white dudes. That proves the ste...
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 SURAPHON CHANPHANITPORNK
Christi Bradnox: Hello, we're interviewing New Yorkers about Erik Lavoie, this gentleman here. [introduces Erik]
Suraphon Chanphanitpornk: Hello.
Erik: Whazzup, whazzup, whazzup?
Where are you going?...
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 WHO IS ERIK LAVOIE?
Erik Lavoie is many great things to many great people. Like what? Shit, it's hard to know where to begin. Like with God. Do you start when he was born? Do you talk about what he does today? I don't know....
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO BEING TOTALLY CRUSHED OUT!
Being "crushed out" is not the ethereal world of magic not-knowingness that people often think it is. In actual fact, the "crush" is a well-researched science that goes back tens and tens of years. For example, when you are attracted to someone, you send out a series of sex pheromones to the mate in...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO "FINDING YOURSELF"
13 Tried and Not-So-True MethodsWhen you become more than twenty years old, you have to find yourself. By "find yourself" we mean everything from figuring out why you're here on this planet to becoming a man/woman to coming out of the closet to being ready for a real relationship.
Technically you're supposed to do it by...
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 BEHIND THE MUSIC
The Guy That Invented Everything Is BrokeRemember Stanley Mouse? He's the guy who did all the Journey covers, even that shitty Frontiers one. He's also the guy who basically invented the idea of rock merchandise. He's also the guy who did all the Grateful Dead's art. You know what he has to show for it? Nothing. The only thing he's gotten ...
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 ELECTROTRASH - THE SECOND COMING
And the Pants Are Off!Is electroclash dead? Has it been reborn as electrotrash? Did a lack of serious musical credibility kill its momentum, or has its lightheartedness given it longevity?
Last year, when we did "The VICE Guide to Electroclash" (we wanted to call it "electrowave" but realized Larry Tee had alrea...
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 TOUCHING PEOPLE
Our Top 10 Outsider VideosSo your copy of Heavy Metal Parking Lot is so mint you want to "jump its bownes" and the audio on your Senator Bud Dwyer Blows His Head Off video is so clear you can hear "hey Bud, Bud, don't!" in your nightmares. You have punk Quincy, punk CHiPS, and a straight-from-TV version of the A.B.C After Sc...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Literature IssueBruised Fruit, Ebola, In, All Families Are Psychotic, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Snake Pit, Surviving on the Streets...
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 THE GUY IN SHADES
TIGA's Electro Killed the Techno StarTIGA is our nigger. That's why we've never done anything on him before. You feel like you're being lazy if you do something on your nigger. As George Bush put it, "I didn't mention Canada because I thought it was understood. They are our brothers."...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Race IssueColoring the News, The Death of the West, White Riot – The Violent Story of Combat 18, Heeb: The New Jew Review, The Elementary Particles, Ryan McGinley...
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 HONG KONG PHOOEY
Inform3r and Katya Casio Want Electroitalodiscohienergypunkgoth Done RightYou may have heard electrodisco jams like "Discotto Plastique" on every runway in New York City and noticed the band was always wearing clothes from underground NYC designers like Garo Sparo, but Hong Kong Counterfeit are way bigger than New York. They are everywhere. They are Asian because Japanese...
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 IMMIGRANT CROSSING
Racial Tension Reaches the Dorm RoomWhen you walk down a deserted Ukrainian beach and see a tiny sand crab with a Coca Cola cap for a shell, you can't help but think to yourself "holy shit." The crab, though not a genius himself, has just made a profound comment about the ubiquity of commercialization. He's been branded. That's how we...
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 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Corporate IssueLOST AND FOUND - A SPECIAL EDITION OF TIDBITS
Two weeks ago I went to a bar on Avenue A to see if I left my black knapsack there. I've had that bag for 14 years and am extremely bummed that it's gone. As I was rummaging through their lost and found box I spotted something I've wanted...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Corporate IssueConfessions of a Dangerous Mind, NAMBLA Bulletin, 28 Pages, New World Order #1: The Saga of White Will, Asianpunkboy, Sound Collector #7, Hell Babies, The Adversary...
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 THE WAR AGAINST KRYLON
Bombing Is Encouraged All Over EuropeThe worse it gets for graffiti artists in North America the better it gets in Europe. While Krylon has watered down their paints to the point of grape juice, European companies keep coming out with bigger and better spray cans totally devoted to being the best graffiti paint around.
Spain's...
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