Cover photo by Ben Rayner
 VIDEO GAMES KILLED THE RADIO STARGRAND THEFT AUTO IV
This isn't particularly fair. It's like they've told me to review the universe in a text message, or to summarize all of À la recherche du temps perdu in five words.
It's a new Grand Theft Auto. Ideally, you need at least three months to see hal... | |
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  VICE MAILAnalog Mail, A Nation of Retards, The Sweet SDear Editor,
This idiot has the glass backward. The ear goes in the glass, and the bottom goes against the wall. Your photographer Patrick O'Dell should have helped the guy. "I could not hear the people fucking upstairs, thanks to your nonhelpful photographer." This photograph doe... | |
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 COMICS BY JOHNNY RYANU.S. History Fun Facts"IT LOOKS LIKE BEN FRANKLIN IS DISCOVERING ELECTRICITY AGAIN!"... | |
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 COGITATIONS UPON THE NATURE OF HISTORYThey say that history is written by the winners.
One day the feral scum of Britain will win and roam the country free.
My problem is that they can't read or write.
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 LITERARY - THE NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE:Hyemee Chung on North Korean History BooksWe recently got our hands on a few "history" books a friend of ours brought back from Pyongyang. Given the North Korean stance on free speech and their flat-out refusal to accept the truth as set out by the obviously better informed great West, we thought we would get our friend HyeMee Chung from UC... | |
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 HISTORY ON REPEAT FOREVER AND EVEROphelia Field Traces Vice's AncestorsOphelia Field is a young and articulate graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She knows a lot more than you about the early 18th Century.
When she isn't acting as an expert consultant to the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, she can be found writin... | |
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 ENGLAND IS THE PLACE FOR MEVal Wilmer's Hidden Photographs Uncovered. A Forgotten History of Black LondonWhile certain rock stars with surnames that rhyme with "dagger" were making pained efforts to be seen to be hip on the 60s scene in London, Val Wilmer was living in the calypso, jazz and highlife alternative. She worked for London's main black magazines like Tropic and Flamingo before ... | |
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 THE HISTORY OF DADThe Vice InterviewMy father Stephen has done a lot of pretty cool things that have been significant in recent British history. He started something called the Boilerhouse Project at the V&A in the 80s, set up the Design Museum, wrote a book called Sex, Drink and Fast Cars and didn't let me watch TV when I was ... | |
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 VICE FASHION - BERLIN PUNKS LOOK BACK AND LAUGHOver the last 10 years Berlin's punks have all but disappeared from the city's streets. The vast majority of the former squats that previously acted as social and economic networks for their inhabitants during the 80s have been systematically closed down by the government who can make money from sel... | |
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 POGUE MAHONE MEANS KISS MY ARSEAn Interview With Shane MacGowanWe won't go too much into who Shane MacGowan is here because, for God's sake, you should know. He's got our vote for best lyricist of the 20th century, and he's a singer who can bring grown men to tears with just one well-turned phrase. Is he a drunk and a now-and-then junkie? Sure. But the fans tha... | |
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 PRANCEHALLI was walking down the street the other day when I had an epiphany. I turned to my reflection in a nearby shop window and said, "Hey, you know what? There's more to the world than just UrBaN Mu$iC in that Do It! column." In celebration of this sign from heaven, I am now going to be using this precio... | |
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 THE DISEASES OF OUR LEADERSBy Neil Hamburger, ComedianThose who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. That's what someone said. Because I didn't learn who said it, I am condemned to repeat it: Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
When it comes to presidential disease, the cycle appears t... | |
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 THOMAS CAHILL IS SAVING CIVILIZATIONOver the course of books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Seas, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, which is newly released in a paperback edition, historian Thomas Cahill has done more for making ancient history readable and entertaining than all the cobwe... | |
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 THE SAGA OF TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METALI met Metalion during a drunken night at Oslo's Inferno Festival in 2003. I was impressed by his kind nature and unparalleled knowledge of extreme metal, so we stayed in touch over the next few years, occasionally geeking out over cameras and records. My friend Johan Kugelberg, the essential editori... | |
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 X'EDEight Photographers Look BackPhotos by Jonathan Black, Brandon Herman, David Titlow, Carolina Manaigo, Ben Ritter, Ed Zipco, Alex Sturrock and Jamie Warren... | |
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 BLOODCLOT!John Joseph of the Cro-Mags Makes the Rest of Us Look Like PussiesOne morning on my way to work, hungover and feeling sorry for myself, I ran into John Joseph, who I knew a little bit through our mutual friends in the hardcore scene in New York. John was the lead singer of the Cro-Mags, who are responsible for Age of Quarrel, the best hardcore record of all... | |
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 SHAFTEDA Guide to Sex and Death in the Old WestHarry S. Truman once said, "America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." But that's bullshit: It was built by thieves, drunks, and whores whose job at hand was giving hand jobs. Thanks to Deadwood, we're all familiar with the follies of... | |
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 OUR FATHERSix Artists Draw WashingtonBRIAN DEGRAW... | |
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 IRON LADYSeven Artists Draw The Woman Who Changed EverythingJIRO BEVIS... | |
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 THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGEby Patrick O'DellI remember Jerry Hsu coming to New York in 2001 and 2002, back before he knew anyone here. He was probably 17 but I thought he was 24. We were at my house on Graham Avenue in Brooklyn and he turned to me and said, "Do you wanna go to Supreme and get vibed?" I thought that sounded fun, so that's what... | |
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 NAPOLEON BONAPARTEThe Vice InterviewThe worst thing about history is the fact that most of the really cool stuff happened centuries ago so anyone who can tell you anything remotely vivid about it has been dead for ages. We have to rely on books, and books are generally full of shit. So you can imagine our excitement when, on a sunny a... | |
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 JOHN CHEEVER GOES UNDERby Blake BaileyIn 1974, John Cheever accepted a teaching position at Boston University, the better to distance himself from his family and drink in peace. One of the first things he did on arrival was order stationery: "John Cheever/71 Bay State Road/Boston, Massachusetts 02215." This enabled him to write desponde... | |
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 SAMMY DEVIL JR.The Candy Man Was a SatanistIf nobody else is willing to say this out loud, I'll step up to the plate. Barack Obama is totally ripping off Sammy Davis Jr. I'm willing to overlook their general similarities (cross-racial appeal, Amazon brides, chain smoking), but the senator's appropriation of Sammy's mantra is what really gets... | |
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 VICE FASHION - OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMSSTORY: ROE ETHRIDGE & ANDY SPADE
PHOTOGRAPHS: ROE ETHRIDGE
Models: Hugo Guiness and Walter Finley (Finley courtesy of Ford Models)
Styling: Annette Lamothe-Ramos and Mordechai Rubinstein
Photographer's Assistant: Marc Tatti
Special thanks to Helene Orce... | |
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 THE KIDS WERE ALRIGHTSelections From Ryan McGinley's Early Work, 1998-2003These are photos from the fucked-up party days, from when Ryan first started taking pictures of all his crazy friends up to when he had his solo show at the Whitney Museum, which flung him like a wet young noodle into the boiling pot of the art world.
To dig these up, Ryan had to pore through ... | |
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 I DON'T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMOREJ. Spaceman on the Strange and Beautiful Canon of Mississippi RecordsI've always had this belief that if you produce something beautiful, and it's packaged beautifully and has had some love and attention invested in it, then somebody will want it.
Unfortunately, the record industry is the opposite of that. It's all about "How cheaply can we put this... | |
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 BLOOD SPLASHED ON A DAISY IN THE SUNSHINEAn Interview With Siouxsie SiouxWhen Siouxsie Sioux climbed onstage at the 100 Club in September 1976 with a band made up of nonmusician buddies-Marco Pirroni, Steven Severin, and Sid Vicious-she probably wasn't thinking about world tours with roadies, lighting rigs, and costume changes 30 years down the line. From all accounts sh... | |
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 DAVID WALLECHINSKY IS A HUMAN ENCYCLOPEDIAA longtime reader of this magazine (such as yourself) already knows about David Wallechinsky because you read the People's Lists feature in every issue. That's the column that takes excerpts from Wallechinsky's (along with his late father and sister) brilliant 70s and 80s reference books about... ev... | |
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 RECORDSMusic Reviews - v15n5PAPER ROUTE GANGSTAZ
Fear and Loathing in Hunts Vegas
If you aren't up on Paper Route Recordz, get familiar. These dudes have been putting it down in Bama for a minute now. With a little push from Benzi and Diplo, the crew is getting ready to blow up like yeast. From the Ecstasy-ins... | |
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 CHINESE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMLast year, Belgian photojournalist Nick Hannes took a year off from shooting warzones all over the world and travelled from Antwerp to Vladivostok and somehow then ended up in Beijing. While there, he heard things about their Museum of Natural History which made him think, "Ewww, weird," and also "H... | |
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 MORE CHINESE BODY SHOTSA Viceland ExclusiveAs a Sunday afternoon bonus, here are a few more shots taken at the body-part wing of the Beijing Natural History Museum by the VBS camera crew who shot the Supergirl series. Enjoy!
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 SKINEMAHow was your weekend? Mine was shitty. Me and my wife went down with the flu for two weeks and were running 102 fevers, bedridden, and about to tear each other's heads off. And during our first weekend of feeling slightly better I get this double feature of crap cinema delivered to my door. Do you r... | |
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 A CONVERSATION WITH LEWIS LAPHAMLewis Lapham is one of our most distinguished editors and essayists. Called "a connoisseur of the perfect word," he was editor of Harper's magazine for almost 30 years, assuming emeritus status in 2006 to start his own journal, Lapham's Quarterly. Contributors to the current (spring 20... | |
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 HEY, WHERE DID BRIDGET CROSS GO?Alaska, If You Must KnowHow cool is Bridget Cross? She was the bassist for Unrest, the king of all early-90s indie bands, plus she was in Velocity Girl and Air Miami. If you cared about underground music in the 90s, she's already one of your crushes/heroes. Bridget played bass like a brightened translation of Joy Division.... | |
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 RAW CHINAWash Your BodyWhen I first moved into the neighborhood I took a walk with my friend who's an old China hand and helped me find an apartment. We checked out the surrounding area and she pointed out some local features, the Italian restaurant, a laundry, a western supermarket. As we walked by a nondescript four-sto... | |
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 AMERICAN EROSFrom the Hypothermic to the HypotheticalIt made little difference when the icy water finally reached my crotch; anything of mine living in that vicinity had already yelped in alarm, scrambled up into my torso, and perched itself safely atop my liver, chattering like a castanet. The last time my he-rig had seen that part of my body was whe... | |
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 WHSSHKKKK!Rat Bastard Is the King of NoiseSome facts about a man named Rat Bastard: Born Frank Falestra and unceremoniously given his current moniker by a shitty punk band he recorded 20 years ago, he lives in Miami, three blocks away from the thong-riddled shores of South Beach. He's 50 years old and nearing a nice retirement from a job he... | |
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 ZINN AND THE ART OF HISTORY MAINTENANCEA People's Chat With HowardThough not quite yet a household name, as historians and public intellectuals go, Howard Zinn has in the last few years become increasingly present in the public eye (whatever that is). Though it is safe to say that some 20 years ago, when his magnum opus A People's History of the United States: ... | |
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 OUR HEROFour Artists Draw Ned KellyBRENDEN KEOGH... | |
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 PEACE IN THE MIDDLE WESTHow Israel Almost Ended Up In The KimberleysWhen you think about it, there's got to be a better place for Israel than the Middle East. It's one of the worst neighborhoods on earth. Crowded, violent, dusty, and hated by pretty much every-one on the block. Holy sites aside, wouldn't it be better if it was situated somewhere miles removed from c... | |
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 OUR WILLYFive Artists Draw Willy BrandtCHRISSE KUNST... | |
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 ROGUES & UPSTARTSHere Be the Standouts of Our Convict StainOver 160,000 poor, poor convicts were stuffed into the hulls of tall ships and transported from the Mother Land to Australia between 1788 and 1868, during what was, by all accounts, up there as one of the least fun centuries of all time. The voyage took around nine months, through rough ocean, in ul... | |
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 BIG AND UGLYPrimitive Calculators On Kick-Starting the Aussie "Little Band" SceneIt's 1979 and Robert 'Simply Irresistible' Palmer stands at the back of a dingy Melbourne venue in his best pop star finery looking at the stage in mild disgust. Someone from his entourage has dragged him along to a Little Bands night and he doesn't like what he hears. At all. On stage there's somet... | |
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 YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW IS TODAY'S COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENTA History of the Future (in Movies)For 100 years, movies have tried to show us what the future might hold. Now, in 2008 (which is officially "the future"), we can look back and say: They were almost entirely wrong. Nevertheless, here are their best efforts.... | |
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 A DIRTY LITTLE RAG WITH
FILTH IN ITRichard Neville Looks Back On OzBack in the late 1950s, when Richard Neville finished high school, Australia was in many ways, uh, what's the word? Oh that's right…totally fucked. Monarchy-loving Menzies, then in his mid-70s, had been in power since 1949; the White Australia Policy was still officially on the books, Aboriginal peo... | |
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 THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON THAT'S NOT QUITE RIGHTWire Still Do CareWire occupy a special place in the history of London 77. Unlike all the bands who broke up after losing steam only to cash in 20 years down the road with reunion after reunion, they never lost steam. And unlike other punk bands such as the Stranglers and the Damned who've chugged along to the presen... | |
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 MASTER OF MINUTIAMartin Monestier Really Knows His ShitYou've probably never heard of Martin Monestier, but he is literally one of the best people ever. He used to be a photojournalist but after taking his millionth photo, he went through a bizarre phase which involved boarding himself up in his flat and contemplating suicide for two years. After this c... | |
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 THIS GUY HUNTS DOWN NAZISWhat Have You Been Up to Lately?Dr. Efraim Zuroff oversees Operation: Last Chance, an organization that tracks down the remaining geriatric dickheads who were responsible for the Holocaust. He is after the true dregs of humanity, bona fide war criminals such as Dr. Aribert Heim, whose contributions to the world of medicine include... | |
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