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 BACK OF THE BUS
A Day in the MTAEveryone 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 want to walk half an hour to the train. S...
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  VICE MAIL
Anarchy, For Real!, Inspiration Station...
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 MEXICO PRETTY
Kern Goes SouthI 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 having a bunch of go-sees come by my pla...
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 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 be a good store to hang out in for 12 h...
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 STALKING FOR BEGINNERS
How to Ruin Someone's LifeI decided to pick a random stranger and stalk the shit out of him. Just for kicks. Here's what happened...
DAY ONE
I didn't want to stalk a friend of a friend. I needed to find some jock in a shitty bar. Me and my best friend headed out to the lame part of Montreal, to a bar you...
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 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 ragga dancehall shit that sounded like Kid...
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 BOTTLED UP
Making Change With the ChineseThe 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 carts all day, and then they redeem everyt...
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 VICE FASHION - WHITE HORSE
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....
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 PRETTY BOYS
Afghani Wedding Singers Are the Sweetest PlumKandahar 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."...
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 GAMES
The Warriors, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, GunI have been racking my brain all day trying to come up with a way of framing these reviews that doesn't make us come off like we're up to our duodenum on Rockstar's dick, but hey, you've got to take it where the taking's good, right? If Hillary Clinton doesn't already look like a total asshole getti...
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 MAZEL TOV!
Infiltrating a Hasidic WeddingBerel 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. The other people in the car asked me tri...
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 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 putting the hard questions to our fetid ...
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 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 to each other when a bunch of Dominicans...
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 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....
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 GODHATESEYE
Fuck With the Bull, Get the HornsFollowing 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 failing to contact him, bandmates Gary M...
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 I WANT MY DVDS/LITERARY
I Hope You Are All Happy Now: Photographs by Nick Zinner, Aesthetic Surgery, Mike's FlyersThe World Is Flat
Thomas Friedman
A few years ago, I was sitting on a plane watching The Discovery Channel and some buffoon in a big mustache was babbling on about how great globalization was. It was only mildly annoying until these East Indians came on the screen and ...
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 DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE A REFUGEE
Katrina Makes Strange BedfellowsTo 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, a chubby fifth-grade volunteer squirts y...
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 SKINEMA
See that girl on the left side of the box cover? Her name is Felix Vicious. ...
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 AW, POOR PETE
On Tour With Pete DohertyVice 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 concerts at his apartment where idiots p...
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 TIDBITS
A monthly look at things we love - v12n10THE 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 of coke, an electroclash compilation, so...
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 LOCKED-UP VS. OUT-AND-ABOUT
Bang'em and Domination Live Their LivesWhat'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....
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 BAD FRIENDS ARE GOOD FRIENDS
La Vida de Las Malas AmistadesLas 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 know how to play. It's pretty great,...
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 MUSIC IS BORING
Ben Weasel Talks BaseballScreeching 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. The Weasel were exactly that: beer-drench...
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 HELL ON EARTH
Simon Reeve in SomaliaSimon 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 Trade Center, and–taking a giant leap her...
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 AL QAEDA FROM DAY ONE
Simon Reeve Know His ShitI 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 to this guy who was this sort of legend...
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 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 to bag their leader–in short, a slut–an...
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 JOURNALISM BEYOND JOURNALISTS
Robert Young Pelton Gets in ThereRobert 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 what they were all about. Today that's m...
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 SUICIDE GIRLS
On The Trail To Absolutely NothingWhen 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....
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 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 yourself as someone who's independent and op...
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 DOWN AND OUT
In Berlinhis 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 cook at home, plus it's free and you g...
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 VICE FASHION - HIV TEST
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....
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 HOW TO BUY A GUN
From the Milano MafiaMilan, 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 showing. Leo is late. Leo is 27, and now he's ...
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 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...
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 LIVING EVERY DAY
As Vincent VincentWhen 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 out of a piece of ply with a microp...
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 NOTHING NEW
The Older the Better for By The FiresideTalk 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 retarded bits of American culture. His mus...
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 BACK OF THE TRAM
A Day in the MetIt'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 adhere to regular road rules and are ther...
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 GAIJIN BABY
Being Pregnant in Tokyo Is WeirdThere 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 have kids. I know a bit about this because...
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 LOVE JAMS
Dirty Three Don't Like to Talk About SexGoing 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 and Jim White manage to break down all not...
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 FRIENDLY FIRE
Flaherty/Corsano Tear You a New OneThe 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 unlikely pairing of the cult blower and US ...
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 CULT CLASSIC
Vashti Bunyan Finds HerselfNo 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 her name and discovered that she was a b...
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 SMASH THE IRA
Remember the Victims of Their BombsMucker 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....
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 A WEEK ON THE SCHOOL BUS
Kids Are InsaneLast 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 the school bus?...
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 DOOMS DAY 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....
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 IMMERSED IN SPUNK
From Sites to Saunas in Six MonthsI 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 content side of the new media. Anyway, ...
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 VICE FASHION - THESE DAYS
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 went, or watched her go about her routines from a distance. This is what her days w...
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 ALL THE PLACES I NEVER WANTED TO GO
On Tour With the DEP06.8.05, 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....
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 EAT SHIT
And Live to TellThere'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 needed to do all that stuff too, just so I...
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 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....
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