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 BACK OF THE BUS
A Day in the MTA
Everyone rides the subway in New York. Only poor old cripples ride the bus. But I just moved from yuppies-everywhere Park Slope to yuppies-by-the-water-and-largest-projects-in-Brooklyn-everywhere-else Red Hook. I'm not too scared of the projects, but I don't w...READ MORE |
 MEXICO PRETTY
Kern Goes South
I just flew to Mexico City on almost no notice to do a casting. I was in and out in two days. It might seem like a long way to go to take pictures of naked girls, but it paid off in spades. I like doing that anyway-taking off and looking for models instead of ...READ MORE |
 BODEGAVILLE
Mike's Store is pretty heavily trafficked for a shitty 24-hour bodega. Maybe the bright yellow sign acts as a beacon, but you run a 100 percent chance of having one of the losers out front ask you for change on the way in AND the way out. We figured this would...READ MORE |
 STALKING FOR BEGINNERS
How to Ruin Someone's Life
I decided to pick a random stranger and stalk the shit out of him. Just for kicks. Here's what happened......READ MORE |
 DOS & DON'TS
We were at a shitty party in Paris where it was so uncomfortable everyone vacillated from putting their hands in their pockets to crossing their arms and bobbing back and forth going, "So?" Then this little guy got up on the turntables and put on some weird ra...READ MORE |
 BOTTLED UP
Making Change With the Chinese
The Chinese ladies who redeem bottles and cans in the recycling machines outside Key Food on Ave. A and 3rd Street in New York's East Village treat it like a job. They wake up early in the morning and collect recyclables in garbage bags attached to shopping ca...READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - WHITE HORSE
Photos by Glynnis McDaris
Photographer Glynnis McDaris went to the White Horse Pike, a grim stretch of road in Camden County, South Jersey, and asked a bunch of strangers who were walking up and down the street to try on some fancy clothes....READ MORE |
 PRETTY BOYS
Afghani Wedding Singers Are the Sweetest Plum
Kandahar just may be the world capital of buggery. There's a popular joke here that goes, "Why do birds fly in circles over Kandahar? Because they're covering their ass with one wing."...READ MORE |
 GAMES
The Warriors, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland & Gun
THE WARRIORS
The Warriors is one of those movies so goddamned steeped in “cult cred” that you can’t help but wonder how many of its legion purportedly die-hard fans have actually loved it for as long as they say and how many are on Netflix r...READ MORE |
 MAZEL TOV!
Infiltrating a Hasidic Wedding
Berel is a Hasidic Jew who I always see hanging around at parties and stuff. I asked him what it's like to be "of the people" and he invited me to go to a real-life Hasidic wedding with him. So we hopped in a car with a couple other Hasids and headed upstate. ...READ MORE |
 GROSS JAR
Up until now, we've been taking sort of a limited approach to the Gross Jar. Each month we spend all of 20 minutes coming up with one thing to add, then pat our backs red for being such job-well-done doers. Last time we promised to step up the rigor and start ...READ MORE |
 HISPANIC PANIC
Excuse Me, the Word Is "Latin"
Puerto Ricans have their own parades and shit, but what about the Dominicans? What are they, chopped pollo? According to the last census, these gregarious brown folk may have become the predominate Latin group in New York City. What are we supposed to whisper ...READ MORE |
 I'M BUSTED
Here's what basically every single day in here is like for me.
5:30 AM, doors crack: The cellblock comes to life as the CO cracks the door. I wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face, and throw on my khaki prison uniform in anticipation of chow call...READ MORE |
 GODHATESEYE
Fuck With the Bull, Get the Horns
Following Hurricane Katrina, Eyehategod singer Michael Williams was missing, feared dead. The apartment he shared with his longtime girlfriend Alicia Stillman on St. Andrew's in the Lower Garden District was completely destroyed. After five days of trying but ...READ MORE |
 LITERARY/I WANT MY DVDS
Book/Movie Reviews - The Immersionism Issue
I Hope You Are All Happy Now: Photographs by Nick Zinner, Aesthetic Surgery, Mike's Flyers...READ MORE |
 DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE A REFUGEE
Katrina Makes Strange Bedfellows
To walk into the Red Cross hurricane evacuation shelter at the Baton Rouge River Center is to be assaulted by rapid-fire hand sanitizer. The Americorps chick with her hemp necklace and plug earrings pumps a slick, sick-smelling glob on your palms at check-in, ...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
BRITTNEY'S PERVERSIONS 2
See that girl on the left side of the box cover? Her name is Felix Vicious. I interviewed her last January at the AVN convention in Vegas, a trade show for the adult industry where they showcase all the newest titles for th...READ MORE |
 AW, POOR PETE
On Tour With Pete Doherty
Vice and Peter Doherty haven't exactly had the most harmonious of relationships. The singer first appeared in our pages in the DON'Ts section of the Nature Issue, where we described him as "a junkie dad who's so desperate for drugs he holds sock-footed ...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Immersionism Issue
THE HIPSTER
After getting bored of simply putting out records and magazines and blah blah blah, Vice decided it was time to hit the road-literally-and make their own motorbike. It's called the Hipster, and it comes with a trucker hat, a bag ...READ MORE |
 LOCKED-UP VS. OUT-AND-ABOUT
Bang'em and Domination Live Their Lives
What's it like to be an independent artist and have the music industry's top-seller systematically cock-block your every move? Just ask Domination, a young Queens lyricist that 50 Cent really doesn't want you to hear about....READ MORE |
 BAD FRIENDS ARE GOOD FRIENDS
La Vida de Las Malas Amistades
Las Malas Amistades is a loosey-goosey collective of Colombian artists who get together every couple of years and make music. It's all very four-tracky and simple, earnest and poppy. It's kind of like if the Young Marble Giants sang in Spanish and didn't fully...READ MORE |
 MUSIC IS BORING
Ben Weasel Talks Baseball
Screeching Weasel is pretty much the best band ever. Before the "pop punk" label become an insult, it simply meant punk rock written by a slightly more advanced species of miscreant, one with an ear for melody and some vague semblance of songwriting ability. T...READ MORE |
 HELL ON EARTH
Simon Reeve in Somalia
Simon Reeve is a real-deal immersionist. Back when the rest of the media was blowing our collective mind with hard-hitting coverage of the world wide web and blowjobs, Reeve was looking into why a bunch of Araby-types decided to park a bomb beneath the World T...READ MORE |
 AL QAEDA FROM DAY ONE
Simon Reeve Know His Shit
I don't think of myself as a journalist. I never went to university, I never went to college. I was 18, came from this very crappy part of London, Acton, and had been on the dole when I got a job in the mailroom of the Sunday Times. One night I started talking...READ MORE |
 I WAS A CHINESE MISTRESS
Sometime between seducing Mao and exterminating millions of people, Jiang Qing stayed at Shanghai's Xingguo Guesthouse. It was a natural fit. Madame Mao was the sort of woman who trekked to rural Yan'an, where the revolutionaries were camped out in caves, just...READ MORE |
 JOURNALISM BEYOND JOURNALISTS
Robert Young Pelton Gets in There
Robert Young Pelton used to run a major marketing firm and occasionally take a couple weeks off to go on little travel expeditions. Then one day he realized he was bored out of his mind and began sneaking his way into war-zones and other no-man's-lands to see ...READ MORE |
 SUICIDE GIRLS
On The Trail To Absolutely Nothing
When two 14-year-old French girls jumped to their death from the 17th storey of a tower block in Paris, leaving a note that said "Life Isn't Worth It", I spent the next week following the huge media storm that blew up around them....READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
This column is called Electric Independence because by and large it's all about electronic music, most of which is released on small and not-so-small independent labels. If you're into the stuff that's written about here then you probably like to think of your...READ MORE |
 DOWN AND OUT
In Berlin
This month I spent four days living undercover among the beggars, drunks and junkies of the Berlin underground.
I'd fancied exploring Berlin's welfare food giveaways for a long time. I always thought the food there couldn't be any worse than the stuff I c...READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - HIV TEST
Photos by Christoph Voy
We met a group of young Germans who were preparing to get HIV tests in a private clinic in Berlin. We followed them, from the moment they got in the clinic until they got the final results, two hours later...READ MORE |
 HOW TO BUY A GUN
From the Milano Mafia
Milan, October 14th. 1.45 pm
I'm sitting in a bar on the outskirts of town. The décor is squalid. Over at the fruitmachines an old guy with a moustache has already stuck around 100 euros in the machine. Now he's shouting about his "full" not showin...READ MORE |
 GRIMEWATCH
We're not sure how long we can keep this page going if something doesn't happen soon. If you don't live in London and have been reading about grime through internet blogs, you've probably got it twist...READ MORE |
 LIVING EVERY DAY
As Vincent Vincent
When I was studying at Chelsea College of Art in 2001 I always wanted to put a band together but never found the right people to do it.
Eventually a friend of mine called Neil started making instruments out of cardboard and wood. We had a double bass made...READ MORE |
 NOTHING NEW
The Older the Better for By The Fireside
Talk about double standards: UK rappers are always being crucified for copying the Yanks, but 24-year-old Americana nut Dan Lea gets away with it with ease. As By The Fireside, he's part of a new breed of British songwriter completely obsessed with the most re...READ MORE |
 BACK OF THE TRAM
A Day in the Met
It's pretty cool that we have trams in Melbourne. The only other place I'm aware of that has trams is San Fransisco and after doing a cursory Google search, it appears my knowledge is extensive. Taking trams rules over taking buses because they don't have to a...READ MORE |
 GAIJIN BABY
Being Pregnant in Tokyo Is Weird
There are somewhere in the vicinity of 34 million people living and working in the Greater Tokyo area, of which 691,000 (2%, according to my calculations) are non-Japanese. About 3% of these gaijin freeloaders (ie. over 20,000) get married to a local and/or ha...READ MORE |
 LOVE JAMS
Dirty Three Don't Like to Talk About Sex
Going to a Dirty Three show can sometimes be like stumbling upon some strange pagan ritual. It's all long-haired warlocks conjuring a luminous potion of spit, sweat and hair. Violinist, frontman and ex-Bad Seed, Warren Ellis, with his old mates, Mick Turner an...READ MORE |
 FRIENDLY FIRE
Flaherty/Corsano Tear You a New One
The Flaherty/Corsano consists of, strangely enough, Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty. They are a fireball of free jazz ferocity and splutter that spits out from nothing more than a drum kit and saxophone. No bullshit posturing here, these guys just rip. The unl...READ MORE |
 CULT CLASSIC
Vashti Bunyan Finds Herself
No matter what they tell you, everyone has typed their own name into a search engine at some point to see what comes up. For most, it's a disappointing exercise in discovering just how irrelevant we are. For Vashti Bunyan it was a different story. She Googled ...READ MORE |
 SMASH THE IRA
Remember the Victims of Their Bombs
Mucker is 18 years old and he loves his country. He'd die for it. He'd kill for it. And that's why, along with hundreds of others, he went onto the streets of Belfast in September and smashed a few blocks of his country to bits....READ MORE |
 A WEEK ON THE SCHOOL BUS
Kids Are Insane
Last week I rode on the school bus with a bunch of Swedish 7-12-year-olds every day.
Monday: I get on the bus at dawn. A pair of twin brothers start fighting and the driver has to stop the bus not once, but twice.
Vice: What do you think of...READ MORE |
 DOOMSDAY METAL
Whaddayouknow! A Danish survey showed that experts are used in papers and press more than ever before, and that they are pathologically S U B J E C T I V E.
I will, only partly, be THAT honest...READ MORE |
 IMMERSED IN SPUNK
From Sites to Saunas in Six Months
I started working as a writer after dropping out of high school in the 90s. Back then there was nothing to it, the demand for cute, teenage fags who new at least sort of basic grammar was at an all-time peak and the internet had everyone pouring money into the...READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - THESE DAYS
Photos by Louise Enhörning & B.Martin
We asked photographer Louise Enhörning to follow one person around like shadow to see what happened, and her friend Valeska agreed. We got Valeska dressed up in the morning and then Louise followed her everywhere she ...READ MORE |
 ALL THE PLACES I NEVER WANTED TO GO
On Tour With the DEP
06.8.05, Orlando, FL
We're on the Warped Tour and I feel like we're sore thumbs. Fear Factory and their crew seem to be the first band to really attempt to embrace us as friends and fans. Dream Theater and Megadeth are both a bit stand off-ish....READ MORE |
 EAT SHIT
And Live to Tell
There's this wacky guy, Baby Blonde (he's a Kiss fan btw), and he says he has tasted the four building blocks of nasty, Piss, Shit, Jizz, and Puke. He claims they really aren't as disgusting as you might think. I got inspired by his stupidity, and decided I ne...READ MORE |
 CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THE WOODS
A couple of years ago two guys I know from back in the day took their hi tech gadgets, moved into a tepee in the woods and started a website about the Conspiracy. I took my wife and went to live with them for 24 hours, and this is what they told me....READ MORE |
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