Cover photo and all presenter pictures by Patrick O’Dell.
 VICE MAIL
Letters - The Stories Issue
Heroin = Death, Junkies = Losers, We Heart Cops, Fuck Limeys, Fuck Yanks, Gross Jar Internationale...Read more |
  THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - ACTION!
County Fair Beatdown
This might be the most insane thing I have ever seen with my own two eyes. We used to have this carnival in Kennedy Park in my town when we were growing up. There was this big rivalry between our town and the next town, South R...Read more |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Stories Issue
CRACK CANDY
Every month we get at least three of these things. What do you want us to do? Make a joke about kids doing crack? Kids do crack all the time. In Tampa it's commonplace...Read more |
 THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - WTF?!?
Bikini Coinkydink
When I broke up with my boyfriend I was left tenderhearted and frail. He cheated on me with some fat bitch and it seemed as though our relationship had run its course. On the upside, I had lost so much weight that my favorite biki...Read more |
 TELL US ABOUT YOUR FIRST TIME
I fucked my best friend and it was so bad. He was in there for like one second. Barely anything. He stuck the tip in and started crying and went limp. Then he told me that the only reason I got with him was because I was "shallow and horny." ...Read more |
 THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - TRUE CRIME
I Got Conned By The Black Keyser Soze
I was working at an art warehouse in Chelsea in like 1994. I was riding my bike home and it was snowing really hard. I got squeezed in between a car and a bus, and I ended up knocking the side-view mirror on th...Read more |
 THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - CHEMICALS
Ecstasy Dealer Shits His Pants
I had just lost a job and I had a friend that was dealing ecstasy. I was like, "Fuck, I need to do something," so I got my hustle on with that shit and it started going well. I met one dude and then I met another dude...Read more |
 MONTREAL SUICIDE
A Viceland Exclusive
Alex Macalister was this overeducated ponce that we used to hang out with in Montreal. He was a good guy and really funny but he talked like a Lord Byronesque version of Ignatius J Reilly and would drink himself into these dark mental places where all he wante...Read more |
 THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - LA FAMILIA
My Mom The Cokehead
When I was eight years old my mom started getting into coke big time. She went from a little-town shitty job to a big-city executive job for a huge company and I guess it was too much for her. In less than two years, she got div...Read more |
 DOING ACID WITH A DISFIGURED GUY
A Viceland Exclusive
Back in High School I was doing acid with my three best friends one of whom was pretty severely disfigured. He was born with a bad hair lip that altered the whole front of his face but when you're pals with someone like that you don't even see it. Of course, i...Read more |
 THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - EWWW!!
Scurvy Boy
I was 19 and living in a glorified toilet block with two mates-Liam who didn't really live with us but kept his mattress in the lounge and paid rent sometimes, and Big Ben who was the complete opposite: A giant hermit with a surly dispos...Read more |
 POWERHOUSE DRUNK
A Viceland Exclusive
From the longest text ever received
U have good locations for do's and don't's,but u should take powerhouse off of bar list as a hollywood hipster bought it,and changed it around .the change was slight,but...Read more |
 VICE RECOMMENDS
Earlier this month, we had our one day super concert, Tales Of The Jackalope. Alongside The Horrors, who were amazing and insane, Klaxons were our other personal highlight. After the performance, Simon from the band strangely ran away to a tent and slept becau...Read more |
 THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - ROCK AND ROLL
Echo & The Bunnymen In Drag
I was leaving Portland's premier venue, Louis La Bambas, when the saxophonist from local cabaret-rock act Danse Combo muttered some cheeky little remark to me. I dropped the nut on him, knocking his two front teeth out a...Read more |
 GRIMEWATCH
You should all be happy to know that Scorcher, the finest MC the grime scene has ever produced (in our opinion) has been released from jail and is currently on road working on his debut album....Read more |
 THE FIRST ANNUAL STORY AWARDS - ROMANCE
Orgasmo
It was my birthday, and I was sitting at work. I always like to do something on my birthday-I hate birthday parties, but I like to do something else to spoil myself. It's Friday afternoon, I'm sitting at work and I'm like, "I want to do som...Read more |
 I WANT MY DVDS
Movie Reviews - The Stories Issue
ADAM & PAUL
Trainspotting is pretty good but it did more for glamourising heroin than The Libertines.I can’t believe there are still apologists for that film who claim it doesn’t make people...Read more |
 I GOT MYSELF SHOT
A Viceland Exclusive
Bouts of drinking tend to end with either a bang or a whimper-rarely, however, both.
It was 2 AM when my friend Big Todd and I pulled up to my apartment with four lukewarm Schaeffer beers left from a 12- pack...Read more |
 VICE FASHION - CABBY CUFFERS
Photos by Cameron Smith
People who get into taxis are usually drunk or high or running late and as such think it's all about them. Keep in mind that the dude getting you to your destination has seen it all...Read more |
 LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD
I Was Taken Hostage
We'd just got out of Iraq and apart from a British missile thudding into the sand next to us one day, we didn''t have much trouble. Everyone thought the war was going to start while we were there, but it hadn’t, so we drove to D...Read more |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Hallelujah. After 11 years of stalking the fringes, one of the country's leading independent labels, DC Recordings, has finally got round to releasing its first compilation. Neatly coinciding with the vogue for all things spaced-out and freaky, it's called Dea...Read more |
 RECORDS
Music Reviews - The Stories Issue
PHARRELL
In My Mind
Look, you know I wasn’t even trying to sweat this album. I really thought this was going to be pure Cosmo Girl material at this point...Read more |
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