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 SURPRISE!Bin Laden Takes a Chinese VacationAccording to an anonymous Vice source (yes, we have sources, just like "real" journalists) with ties inside the Pakistani ISI (it's their CIA), Osama Bin Laden has been tracked to a mountain hideaway in the Taxkorgan Tajik region of China's predominantly Muslim Xinjiang area and has been under US, B... | |
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  VICE MAILIslanders Issue Was Great, Islanders Issue Was Terrible, Charity Shops, Nomenclature, Snacking for Palestine, Down and Out in Paris... | |
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 EASTERN PROMISEMuslims Serve Up the Best Crack in LondonBritain's cocaine intake has skyrocketed since Oasis made every asshole in old Blighty want a bit of the blow. That's why the quality's gone down. Dealers now sell it to marketing girls at cell-phone companies or 15-year-old middle-class car thieves up to 30 times a day. The real junkies, AKA their ... | |
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 PERUVIAN TALIBANI'm in Nowheresville, Peru. It's somewhere in the mountains. My motorcycle died, so I'm just figuring out how to go from here. It overheated about two miles from the nameless town where I am now. While pushing the bike, I passed by the friendly neighborhood Taliban clubhouse. I couldn't fucking beli... | |
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 WORMS ATTACKWell, This Is Just GreatOK, you don't know anybody with AIDS and you very likely never will. You do know a fair share of people, mainly slightly older friends with seedy pasts, who've had the clap. "It was such a not-big deal," they tell you, "Five pills and I was good as new." (Then they usually snap their fingers in your... | |
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 DOS & DON'TSAfter years of getting bullied by the French, English Montrealers are shoving the Quebec flag up their asses and taking to the streets. It's the most political fashion has been since Yankees fans started balling up Red Sox shirts and stuffing them in their foreskins.... | |
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 GIRL JOHNSDykes Like WhoresGuess what. Soliciting prostitutes is not a male-only enterprise any longer. Yes, I see that look on your face that says, "Nigga, 'scuse me?" But I'm 100 percent cereal here.
And when I say soliciting prostitutes, I don't mean 40-year-old cougars calling an escort agency to have some failed... | |
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 VICE FASHIONFashion Update 2006 - New Trends in Wearing TNew Trends In Wearing Things... | |
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 BLACK-MARKET KIDNEYUrban Legend, My AssIt cost $7,000 to buy the actual kidney, $1,000 to fly round-trip to Cape Town, South Africa, where the operation could be done legally, and $1,200 to fly the Brazilian bricklayer whose kidney is now inside me to Cape Town from São Paulo. Oh, and $1,422 all told for my hotel and $732 for his. I'm le... | |
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 GAMESTrue Crime: New York City
Activision
If you want to know right off the bat whether or not I recommend this game, the answer is yes, OK? God. I have a few reservations, but go ahead and buy the fucker now.... | |
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 TEENAGE SUICIDEDon't Do It!It began on the morning of January 12, 2005, when Denis Sauvagnac of the Rhône Alps placed a call to the police saying his son was dead. Authorities found 15-year-old Guy Sauvagnac lying in bed with postmortem lividity in his back, buttocks, and penis, and seminal fluid in his rose-colored undershor... | |
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 GROSS JARA lot of times when people bring up the Gross Jar with somebody from the magazine, they think they're being super clever by saying stuff like, "Man, what if something's alive in there" all sarcastically. Um, hello? We've basically got the bacterial United Nations on our roof. Do you think the things... | |
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 THE REAL DEALGreco and Berra Keep Skating DirtySkateboarding is rapidly becoming a living, breathing Xbox game. Elbow- and kneepads and a helmet covered in stickers from the energy drink that sponsors you? Way cool!
Thank God for professional skateboarders Steve Berra and Jim Greco, two renegades on the front lines of urban terrain libe... | |
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 I'M BUSTEDOn August 28, 1999, the Bureau of Prisons adopted the Ensign Amendment, putting in place statutory restrictions requiring return of commercially published information or material that is sexually explicit or features nudity. That meant no more Hustler, Playboy, Club, or Swank. Now convicts are figur... | |
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 HOLIDAY IN ZIMBABWEAnd the Crazy ContinuesEvery day that goes by, Africa gets weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder and weirder. The... | |
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 I WANT MY DVDS/LITERARYPunk Rock Confidential, A-Trak: Sunglasses Is a Must, The Aristocrats, New York Dolls: All Dolled UpPunk Rock Confidential
Can we stop pretending that punk isn't really all about fashion and gossip? At least Fat Mike can. He just skyrocketed into our permanent good books by doing US Weekly, but for punks. That's what his magazine Punk Rock Confidential is, plain and simple. Scoff a... | |
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 INSIDE-OUTAmerican Al QaedaI'm an American and I work with what I guess you could call a sleeper cell here in New York City. I'm what George W. Bush and CNN would call a terrorist. I don't see myself as that at all. I feel more righteous than I ever did when I was growing up Catholic in New Jersey. I feel like Superman or the... | |
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 OUT THEREOne Kiss Can Lead To Another is the coolest box set ever. It contains four discs of the best in girl-group music. Not a bunch of stuff you've heard a thousand times either. This is deep, deep collector shit. There are songs on here that you would have to pay, like, your little toe and an ounc... | |
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 OUTSIDE-INI Spy on YouMy interest in national security began when I was working at a gas station in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, and observed on several occasions five young males of Middle Eastern descent in the parking lot yapping away in Arabic on cell phones, using prepaid cards purchased at my kiosk. This was shor... | |
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 SKINEMAI suppose it's true, you do learn something new every day. I was unaware that whores didn't wear panties. ... | |
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 THE END OF THEFTThe Microchip That's Changing the World"I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but the whole thing started when I saw that Tom Cruise movie Minority Report," says the American-born Yushi Sakamoto from his home in downtown Miami. "When they stole his kid, it almost gave me a heart attack because I have a kid that same age. That's every fa... | |
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 TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v13n2DAVID CRASS
Ever since David Cross moved to Tompkins Square Park he has been walking around with tons of disgusting dogs on ropes and a big filthy knapsack filled with squatter crap and his skin is all brown and he has facial tattoos and pretends not to be a junkie that got fucked by his... | |
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 TREAT THEM LIKE BITCHESX More Than Zero X Bring Hardcore BackMaybe the reason a lot of hardcore bands scream about a stagnating scene is because the hardcore scene is really, really stagnant.
Over the past 20 years, although there were a handful of light-in-the-darkness bands, the majority of hardcore groups/kids/zines have been copycat losers, a zil... | |
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 RECORDSMusic Reviews - v13n2Lil' Wayne
Tha Carter II
Cash Money
I'm looking at my 1999 Hot Boys album cover. Lil' Wayne was about 14 years old. He was an adorable boy with a baby face and a mini Afro. On record, he sounded like a harmless little frog. ... | |
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 NOT ANOTHER GAY RAPPERMS-DL Gets on His KneesIn 1999, Detroit rapper MS-DL picked up a kid at a local nightclub, the Raven Claw, and took him back to his mom's for the usual Friday-night deal. MS-DL doesn't know for sure what happened that night-he pretty much blacked out-but whatever he did, the kid didn't like it. In fact, he didn't like it ... | |
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 VICE PICTURESSince 2002, New York-based photographer Stuart Ignacio has been traveling to college science labs and private think-tanks around the country, taking pictures of some of the last few years' most shocking research advances. These pictures are a sampling of some new work.... | |
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 REUNITED!Hot Boys Back Together at LastFor the record, Vice published the first-ever definition of the expression "bling bling" and we got it straight from the horse's mouth. The year was 1999, and the interviewee was B.G., slang innovator and member of the world's only gangsta boy band: The Hot Boys. Back then, and probably much to thei... | |
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 KITTY-CIDELiving with the Nightmare of FRMS(Update: We had this movie sent to us from a cat owner in Liverpool whose pet is starting to show symptoms of the disease.)
"We found him perched on the oven with his little paw trying to turn the gas on. Instead of running away, which he normally does when we catch him being naughty... | |
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCEI'll tell you what, sometimes it's hard maintaining a level of professional enthusiasm every month for a load of records that, with the odd exception, basically sound the same. (The exception right now by the way is the insane new Ceephax acid jamboree "Hardcore Wick" / "Acid Varsity Special" single... | |
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 FLYING HIGHNick Glider Cruises BackWith the Italo-disco revival still in full swing, it was only a matter of time before one of the scene's most colourful characters resurfaced to bask in all the acclaim. We're talking about Nick Glider, the playboy DJ who basically ruled Rimini disco palaces like Paradiso in the early-80s and produc... | |
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 VICE FASHION - SPECIAL FRIENDSSpecials is a new online dating agency for young people who have trouble holding down relationships due to the fact that they suffer from what society deems "embarrassing or inappropriate social behaviour". The most common conditions that its members have been linked to are kleptomania, Tourette's S... | |
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 FASHION ROCKS DEATH DISCOMSTRKRFT and Lagerfeld Make Sounds For 2007Karl Lagerfeld can still remember the first time he heard MSTRKRFT's incendiary remix of Bloc Party's "Two More Years".
The designer was sat on top of a fake Appalachian mountaintop, dyed-black peacock feathers cascading down his cheeks (from a mink crown / snowboarding hat designed for Cha... | |
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 VICE FASHION - FIGHTING BACKGirls Against Crime Kartel is a group of young women based in South London who organise self-defence classes, focus groups and anti-crime initiatives in and around their manor.... | |
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 GRIMEWATCHDo you remember a couple of years back when Maxwell D sold a story to the tabloids about going dogging with Jamelia? Well, tell New Nation to hold the front pages, because I've just been on a date with MC Shystie. ... | |
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 THE HAT SQUADDon't Mess With Jews 'n' Their HoodsOnce a Jew, always a Jew, right? Well, if your mother is Jewish, I'm sorry son but you just don't have any say in it. Try telling that to the estimated twenty two percent of mature Jewish males living in New York City who wish they hadn't been born so. Even better, tell that to the fourteen percent ... | |
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 GOLDEN SHOWERSCashing Up OutbackWhile the majority of Aboriginal communities around Australia face the ongoing fallout associated with being slaughtered en masse by shiploads of convicts and continue to struggle with rife unemployment, health issues and unethical art dealers, a small and relatively unknown tribe-the Gupajangus, ha... | |
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