  BEATS AND RHYMES
I think Dante Ross should get an award for being one of the best rap A&R guys of all time. In the early '90s, he was working at Elektra and had one of the best rosters in the history of rap. Del, Brand Nubian, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Leaders of the New School, and one of my favorite groups of all tim...
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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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 BY DESIGN
Coming back from Japan is always a little freaky. The colors in your country don't look as bright, everything's filthy, and you realize that "presentation" for your native cuisine means cilantro and a cloth napkin for your club sandwich. Even the people look out of focus in comparison. Sure, the hea...
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 FRIENDLY SKIES
The Amazing Amazingness of In-Flight MagsI'm a culture junkie and I need a variety of RESOURCES at my disposal at all times. If I somehow forget to buy my Cigar Aficionado at the airport, I'm on a six-hour flight with nothing but my head up my ass. I can't afford a culture blackout like that. That's where the in-flight mag comes in––it fil...
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 DEAR DIARY
Entry: November 1991November 1991
Dear Diary,
Hi! At Hebrew Marcie told me she was going to Florida for Christmas vacation. She asked her mom if I could go with them. Our moms just talked about it and it just so happens that Papa and Selma R going too! I can go with them if I can get a flight! ...
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 BROOKLYN'S DA BOMB
If You're Into Second BestNew York City gets over 40 million visitors a year but only 12 percent of them ever end up checking out Brooklyn. Why is that? Brooklyn boasts 70 square miles of parks and gardens and quaint old bars. It's home to Busta Rhymes, Andre 3000, and the Nets! It's got the Botanical Gardens. Shit, you can ...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Gathering artists from Mexico, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, England, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, France, Japan, Canada, and the States, Compost's double CD Ennio Morricone Remixes Volume 2 is chockablock with reworkings of the legendary film-score composer. I must admit, when I firs...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO CANADA
That's right America. Canada is not cool. It's bigger than you, correct. It's home to great things like poutine (fries, cheese curds, gravy, repeat), Chester Brown's Louis Riel comics, SCTV, Rush, Jack Black, Gordon Lightfoot, Kids in the Hall, TV Carnage, hockey, David Cronenberg, The Dears, The St...
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 LITERARY
Sturgeon White Moss #4, Slept in Beds, Fair Situation PhotographsSturgeon White Moss #4
White Moss Press
This underground comic quarterly just won the Best Fanzine Award at France's Angouleme Festival. And while that may not sound like much of an honor, when put in perspective it's similar to winning Best Spock Impersonation at a Star Trek ...
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 BORED OF WAR
The Mess That Is the Holy LandAll we know about Israel is that we don't know nothing. Sure, Ariel Sharon is a fucking maniac and his new gigantic-fence idea is totally insane, but everyone knows that–Israelis and Palestinians alike. Even Bush thinks Sharon is out of control. Also, you have people on both sides who have paid too ...
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 SKATE AND DESTROY
IsraelSo, check it out, my friend Jay and I were skating downtown L.A. and this cop tells us we better stop or else we'll "be eating through a straw for the next month." We were like, "Fuck you, pig" (in our heads).
This happens about every 10 fuckin' minutes in L.A., so me and Jay decided to fin...
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 SKINEMA
Have you ever flown first class? That shit is awesome. ...
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 FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA
If Only Otis Was in SamoaI just got back from Samoa, and I would like to be the first to say, "Holy fucking shit." I only went there to surf and hang around on the beach, but instead I got an eyeful of a verdant transsexual paradise that's left me questioning what it even is to be a boy. In other words, I think I might be t...
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 TIDBITS
A monthly look at things we love - v11n2KABA KICK (Tokyo)
New American parents are the worst. They pack a Zip-Loc bag of washed grapes everywhere they go, wear matching hats, have those big baby knapsacks with plastic things on it that can snap on to the baby seat, and they spend hundreds of dollars on educational toys. We nee...
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 LET'S GO PAKISTAN!
Kalashnikov Culture from North to SouthFrom the American perspective, Pakistan isn't far from joining the so-called axis of evil. After Sept. 11, this generally spineless nation conveniently became a buddy in the fight against terrorism. But make no mistake–if its current government should fall, impoverished and overpopulated Pakistan wi...
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 DIESEL THERAPY
Torturing Prisoners Legally Takes the BusTransit, better known as "diesel therapy" to the feds, is maybe the worst part of being incarcerated. Imagine being handcuffed with a chain around your waist securing the handcuffs to your stomach area. You can't move your arms up and down or side to side. Your feet are shackled, limiting you to bab...
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 DEAD BABIES ON COKE
The Downside of Drug SmugglingWe need to make the world a safer place for crime.
–Pablo Escobar
Way before you were born, I was a mule for Pablo Escobar. My first temporary job was posing as a tourist on planes that were used to smuggle contraband. My partner, Gloria, was living with her boyfriend, Elijas (s...
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 MARCHING POWDER
Teenagers Mine Silver for Cocaine!PARTY ALERT!
If you wanna get KRIZ-UNKED while working an awesome job digging for ancient Aztec silver in HAUNTED CAVES then be sure to put Bolivia at the top of your TMV (totally must visit) list....
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 GARAGELAND
Inner-City London Takes the MediterraneanBritish people who work in the media will tell you things like "The UK underground is dead," but that's because they get all their articles and ideas by googling their lives away on friendster.com and gayclub.org.
Anybody who actually lives outside of the ridiculous world of fashion-culture...
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 SHOOK ONE
Twista's Scurred of TravelingCan you believe the man who holds the 1992 Guinness record for the world's fastest rapper has never been anywhere? While his buddies Jay-Z and Freeway released songs like "All Around The World" and "International Hustler," and his mentor Dame Dash became the Euro icon who made Becks a cuckold, Chica...
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 KOMBUISTAAL ROCK
Koos Kombuis: Seks,Drugs, En BoeremusiekAfrikaans was bietjie meer as 'n eeu gelede bekend as "kombuistaal", ondergeskik aan Engels en Hollands, iets wat gefluister is tussen die oond en die opwasbak. Vandag is dit natuurlik heeltemal anders, maar ons het weer eens 'n Kombuistaal–by name van die legendariese Koos Kombuis....
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 BLOOD ON THE TERRACES
Hooliganism Is Back, and It's Better Than EverFrom Glasgow to Derby to Leeds to Wales and back up again, every week of my life I've traveled the country on trains and coaches looking for other gangs of like-minded young men to punch, kick, and stab. I'm violent. I know it's wrong, and on the one hand, I want people to know the truth about how b...
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 SHOOTIN' ROOS
Is the Worst Holiday Job EverWhen I sold everything I owned to move to Australia, I thought that I'd find jobs that would be equal parts hilarious and character-building. Maybe I wouldn't get the most lucrative or glamorous work, but I'd be in a strange land where every day was an adventure, I would brag to my friends back in t...
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 PICTURES
From the Vice PartyVOL. 3
ROCKSTAR GAMES & MAMBO PRESENT
THE VICE PARTY...
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 MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
The Juggernauts Take on the WorldNoriega and Gadaffi can be found performing around Melbourne under the guise The Midnight Juggernauts. They traverse musical terrains ranging from organ-rock and disco-metal, through to sci-fi roller-skating anthem. Despite their respective backgrounds as political/military leaders, Gadaffi and Nori...
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