Published March, 2004
 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, ...Read more |
 THE MILES-HIGH CLUB Salvia Divinorum Takes You to Outer Space Every 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 t...Read more |
 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 o...Read more |
 FRIENDLY SKIES The Amazing Amazingness of In-Flight Mags I'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 ...Read more |
 DEAR DIARY Entry: November 1991 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! I hope I ho...Read more |
 BROOKLYN'S DA BOMB If You're Into Second Best New 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 g...Read more |
 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-s...Read more |
 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, hoc...Read more |
 LITERARY Book Reviews - The Travel Issue STURGEON WHITE MOSS #4
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...Read more |
 BORED OF WAR The Mess That Is the Holy Land All 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...Read more |
 VICE PICTURES The Travel Issue Photos 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, J...Read more |
 SKATE AND DESTROY Israel So, 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)...Read more |
 SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko WORLD CLASS ASS #4
Have you ever flown first class? That shit is awesome. I just did it the other day for the first time, and I'll tell you what, I never want to go back to sitting with the peasants again...Read more |
 FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA FA If Only Otis Was in Samoa I 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 b...Read more |
 TIDBITS A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Travel Issue KABA 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...Read more |
 LET'S GO PAKISTAN! Kalashnikov Culture from North to South From 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, im...Read more |
 DIESEL THERAPY Torturing Prisoners Legally Takes the Bus Transit, 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. You...Read more |
 DEAD BABIES ON COKE The Downside of Drug Smuggling "We 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...Read more |
 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...Read more |
 GARAGELAND Inner-City London Takes the Mediterranean British 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...Read more |
 SHOOK ONE Twista's Scurred of Traveling Can 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...Read more |
 KOMBUISTAAL ROCK Koos Kombuis: Seks,Drugs, En Boeremusiek Afrikaans 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 leg...Read more |
 BLOOD ON THE TERRACES Hooliganism Is Back, and It's Better Than Ever From 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 w...Read more |
 VICE FASHION - REFUGEES
 Photos by Sophia Evans
Styling by Nasrin Jean-Baptiste
All photographs shot at ‘Ground Zero’ —a secret refuge for young asylum...Read more |
 SHOOTIN' ROOS Is the Worst Holiday Job Ever When 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 adventu...Read more |
 MIDNIGHT EXPRESS The Juggernauts Take on the World Noriega 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 poli...Read more |
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