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  ANTI-SOCIALSLast year I travelled up and down Britain for six months to meet and take photographs of people with Anti-Social Behaviour Orders. In case you didn't know, an ASBO is something invented by the Labour government to give out to people who are seen as a menace to the community they live in. I decide... | |
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 GENIUS CONVENTIONFun in the Sun With the War on Terror's Good GuyThe emblem for the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate features a screaming bald eagle soaring somewhere in the stratosphere, high above the earth where there probably, technically, isn't much air to soar on. In the background, draped across space, is a huge American flag. The eagle, its t... | |
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 SKINEMAThere's a chance that as I type this my wife might be pregnant. Despite what I may have told you before about being eager to have a child, I'm considering asking her to get an abortion.... | |
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 OUR HERORobert Fisk Is a Journalistic GodBest-selling author and British journalist Robert Fisk has lived in Beirut for the past three decades. He is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. He has covered every major event in the regi... | |
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 STUFF LIKE THATShe Was Born to Be My Unicorn
Vice's own Amy Kellner (aka Teenageunicorn.com) curated an amazing group show last month at Smith-Stewart Gallery in New York. She's too modest to write this intro herself, so before she goes ahead and tells you about a few of the artworks included, we want to say that it was the... | |
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 TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v14n8THIRD-WORLD GANG BISCUITS FOR KIDS
These wheat biscuits were made in Mumbai. Guess which coast of India Mumbai is on. That's right. West Si-i-i-i-y-eeeed represent!
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 WE GOT OUTNorth Korean Refugees Tell Us About the HomelandI met these three people in a nine-story Christian church for North Korean refugees in Seoul. I don't know the church's name; the reverend told me just to call it Seoul Church. It looked exactly like a Christian church in Texas or anywhere in the heartland. The parishioners wore suits and dresses... | |
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 VICE PICTURESYour Logo Here (And Here, And Here, And Here)Photographer Deanna Templeton recently began documenting a trend that's been happening at more or less any event held in Southern California revolving around surfing or skateboarding. Young men and women are getting "branded" (in both the marketing and the bovine senses) with a company logo that's e... | |
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 IT HAPPENEDCrackheads Stole the Door Off My RoofWe moved into a house a few blocks from the Marcy projects at the end of last summer. The day we moved in, one of our neighbors asked me how much I'd paid to rent our moving van. I told her, and she said, "I've got to get me and my kid the fuck out of here. Welcome to the neighborhood."
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 GAMESShadowrun, Vampire RainShadowrun
Platform: Xbox 360
If you can get past the highly Smashing-Pumpkins-video-esque box art enough to get this into your console and join a live game, you will find a really strange world of debate, theories, and very little actual gaming. I logged into a multiplaye... | |
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 DRUM DREAMI Was a Drum Leader for Boadrum77On 7/7/07, the Boredoms put on a crazy, already-legendary concert under the Brooklyn Bridge with 77 drummers spiraling out from a humongous guitar gong that Boredoms leader Yamataka Eye struck with a giant trident scepter. It was, according to all who attended, "the best show ever."
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 SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD!Life, Death, and Narwhal Tail: A Greenland Scene ReportMy grandmother Arnaluak was born in Greenland in 1933. She grew up in a small arctic Eskimo society with her mom, stepdad, and three older brothers. They lived in houses made of stones and soil, and hunted seals and polar bears for food and clothing. There was no such thing as running water or elect... | |
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 RECORDSMusic Reviews - v14n8"Big Things Poppin'" is a great record, but the rest of the album? Meh. Tell you the truth, this guy is overrated. I think people just like him cuz he's light-skinned. And a single with Wyclef on it? What are you thinking, homie?... | |
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 MYCOLOGY 101The Vice Guide to Really Fascinating American MushroomsCHANTERELLES
It's always exciting to find some chanterelles because they grow symbiotically on tree roots and can't be cultivated. I found some the other day behind a cemetery. They're very expensive to buy. Wegmans, a huge grocery store near my house, has them for $39.99 a pound, presumab... | |
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 WANKFEST OVERLOADHot Licks With Marnie SternGuitar solos are ruling. No matter how much some old guy in the pub dribbling into his bitter at closing time goes on about how important three-chords and '76 and blah and blah and blah, solos are still a massively important part of guitar rock. That's why people stand on tables and play air guitar ... | |
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE Teenage Bad Girl, Vitalic, Carte Blanche, Vitalic-Pascal Arbez, Citizen, Fixmer & McCarthy, Monosurround, Nag Nag Nag, Jojo de Freq, Birdy Nam Nam, Nitzer Ebb, Douglas McCarthy, Arctic Monkeys, Justice, Jean Michel Jarre, Daft Punk , TBG... | |
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 FRAT ATTACKVampire Weekend Graduate to Real Band StatusIt has always blown my mind how the US college basketball teams manage to get crowds of squillions of people and have like their own trading cards and stuff. My college football team found it hard getting the coach to turn up to matches. But I guess it's partly just indicative of the amount of megab... | |
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 VICE FASHION - STREAKING IN THE CITYThe British weather has been bad all summer so the first sunny day we got I got drunk with some friends and we went streaking in the centre of London.
First we got really pissed in the park near Buckingham Palace, then we went riding around Soho. We'd hide in alleyways, take our clothes off and... | |
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 FETCH THE PLIERSIron Lung Will Dissect YouIron Lung are two moody, bearded guys from Seattle who play a kind of music called "power violence". Pioneered in the early 90s, this genre of punk was a kick in the ass for the joke of what hardcore had become thanks to snowboarding, metalcore bands who sang about "revenge" and girls not being allo... | |
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 ONE RAPE, PLEASE (to go)I Paid A Male Whore To Rape Me Because I Wanted ToI blame my recurring rape fantasy on the fact that I'm a feminist. I've never made any bones about getting boned in exactly the fashion that I want. But as a girl, my equipment can be trickier to manage, therefore I need to be a boss in the bedroom to ensure I get worked the right way. It gets reall... | |
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 STORMY WEATHERSian Alice Group Make it RainDo you remember those kids at primary school who used to be scared of clouds?
You'd be mucking about in the playground and then all of a sudden somebody would start wailing and pointing at the sky because a cloud looked like a giant spider or something. The teacher would rush over to see what w... | |
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 BARNSLEY CALLINGWe're Going to Have a Bin Party Tonight. Alright!In a spasm of true British ingenuity, teenage gangs in Barnsley have been stealing, then setting fire to plastic wheelie bins. THEN they inhale the thick black poisonous fumes, thus having a hobby that ticks both boxes of drug-taking and vandalism.
The trend's been gathering pace all year and n... | |
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 DO IT!This month we spent weeks living in a Ford Nova in Derbyin an attempt to fully infiltrate the niche/bassline house/bassline garage scene... | |
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 THE BIRTH OF TRANCE-HOPB.O.B. Makes Ecstacy Music for Strippers & ThugsI remember reading a Lil Jon interview a few years ago where he was talking about how ecstasy was seeping into the Dirty South hip-hop scene, mainly through strip clubs. What happened was club owners would give girls pills to keep them dancing all night. Then, eventually the guys started doing them ... | |
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 IL DUCE BAGSPredappio is a Fascist ParadiseEver heard of a place called Predappio? Wow, it's weird. We came across it by accident when travelling through central Italy on holiday last month. It's a small, backward, rural village that really isn't that different from any other small, backward, rural village in central Italy apart from the fac... | |
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 AIN'T NO FUNIf Lovvers Can't Have NoneWhat happened? Last summer it felt like we were on the verge of something great. Bands were being exciting and original and kids were putting on parties in squats. Every weekend was like a holiday you wanted to go on forever. A whole year later and we're stuck with a big fat nothing. Dubstep has bec... | |
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 THIS AIN'T DAD ROCKBlues Control Control the BluesBlues Control are a two-piece New York entity who, like their music, are slowly and steadily building steam, creating mind-bending music on their own terms. Formed in January 2006 as a tongue-in-cheek side project to Watersports (an improvisational new age band operated by lovers Russ Waterhouse and... | |
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 AUSSIE BATTLERS
Star Wars Not DeadIt's a little known fact but the Australian branch of the Star Wars costume fan organisation is a steadily growing force. They call themselves the 501st Legion or, more affectionately, 'Vader's Fist'.
Not limiting themselves to a self-indulgent fanzine, the group operates as a not for profit or... | |
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 ADAPTABLE BANDKill Boogie Have Tried EverythingFour years ago Kill Boogie were called Solar Crete. Back then the three-piece lived in Brisbane, in a house where Kylie Minogue filmed part of The Delinquents. When their original bassist (a trained sax player) left, awesome guitarist Thomas Madden was recruited to play bass, while Jack Farley conti... | |
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 DOOMSDAY METALEddie's DeadThe connection between extreme metal and Eddie Meduza, the lewd god of homemade, Swedish slapstick music, is muddy at best. Still, a lot of metalheads secretly worship him, and there are devoted fans in bands like Hypocrisy and Necrophobic. Maybe it's because he was one of the most hateful artists t... | |
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