ARTICLES BY ELIN UNNES
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 HOCK TALK
Helsingin Pantti is the largest chain of pawnshops in Helsinki, with 11 outposts dotting the Finnish capital. The most recent store opening coincided nicely with an uptick in the poor-people- selling-their- cherished-belongings business. Right now...
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  BEARDED, BALD, AND BELGIAN
As part of the Antwerp Six, designer Walter Van Beirendonck stood out as the color-happy alternative to understated co-members Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten. Today Walt is the super-gay god-daddy to Bernhard Willhelm and all those kids at...
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 CONNIE CHIU
Photos by Camilla Stephan
Styling by Hanna Kisch/Kid of Tomorrow
Connie Chiu is a Chinese albino from Hong Kong who was raised in...
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 THE RIVER STYX IS FULL OF BOOZE
Drinking Oneself to Death Is Serious BusinessPhotographer Casper Dalhoff recently spent some time in a Copenhagen institution for chronic alcoholics. Thirty-nine men and women live there, all fully resigned to the fact that they are dying because of drinking, yet all still drinking like so many suicidal herring. They came here to run out the c...
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 RAGNAR PERSSON IS A 28-YEAR-OLD SWEDE...
Vice: Do you ever cringe when you go through your archives?
Ragnar: Not when I look at the things I did when I was 16-all those awesome zombie drawings. The only things that I'm embarrassed about are the drawings I made when I was going to an art school in Gothenburg. It was all airy-fai...
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 CANARY BIRDS
Drag Queens in Playa Del InglesBELINDA
Vice: Where do you work?
Belinda: I'm the head presenter at the Café La Belles in Playa Del Ingles, Gran...
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 DRUNKY MONKEY
Freezing at the ZooIn Russia, it isn't just prison inmates who go without heat. One million homeless kids get in on the freezing-their-fucking-balls-off action too. Christ, during the Russian winter, people who keep their cell phones pressed to their heads for too long find them frozen to their ears. So can you imagin...
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 WILD BERRIES
Gossip Like Laffy TaffyGossip might be one of the best reasons to get fat. Partly because you're going to need the energy that the extra body fat provides when you go moshing to their utterly energetic, riot-y, bluesrockdisco, and partly because you'll fall in love with them in that way where it's so intense you spend all...
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 EW, I SAW MY PARENTS DOING IT!
Ellen: When I got my first job I rushed home to tell my parents all about my first day at work. I had never thought of them as sexual beings and was surprised to see them in action. It seemed kind of violent, but I guess I was just stunned. I remember the smell of their bedroom....
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 UNDERAGE DRINKING
Bangkok Cobra Knows All About ItWe first met Bangkok Cobra at their high school when we were scouting for virgins for the Sex Issue fashion story.
The singer, Rikki, started coming by our office to Xerox posters for their shows and gave us their demo. It was recorded over one mic, so it sounded a bit crap, but Rikki sings abo...
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