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It's about time the Natural History Museum's tit-makers started taking their cues from back issues of Cheri. That said, let's all pray to God they found a more recent source for the crotches. Comments/Enlarge | See all


I hate all these boring remakes of Friday 13th and Halloween. What if they remade Hellraiser, Conan The Destroyer and Cruising into the same movie? That would fucking rule! Comments/Enlarge | See all








Cover photo by Roe Ethridge. Food styling by Matthew Vohr.


1636VICE MAIL
Letters - The Sundaes Issue
You know what? No letters page this month. You know why? Because we aren't receiving enough real letters. We mainly get emails now, and people don't think when they write emails. They just pump them out, which makes them hard to reply to. We sat here and...READ MORE
1637VICE COMICS
By Johnny Ryan
SUMMER FUN...READ MORE
1638GLAS-NOT!
Soviet Times Sucked. Want to See for Yourself?
So these nuts in Lithuania have opened up a new theme park called 1984: Isvgyvenimo Drama. The basic premise is that you, dear customer, are a freshly caught Russian political dissident and now you are going to be locked up in hell and then interrogated by mon...READ MORE
1639TRAPPED FOREVER IN SEX SLAVERY, EH?
Canada Is the World's Latest Portal of Human Traffic
From the Chinese head tax in the days of the British Columbian gold rush (look it up, it's fucked) right down to the Filipino chap who holds an architecture degree from back home but now flips your cheeseburger for minimum wage in Montreal, Canada has a long...READ MORE
1641MEETING BABY KEVIN RUDD
& Hermaphrodite Goats in Papua New Guinea
In March this year, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an official visit to a small village in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea where he was mobbed, showered with gifts, and generally treated like a rock star. That was strange enough but when I...READ MORE
1642ASS INVADERS
The Vice Guide to Milking Your Prostate
Hey, guess what? If you are an American man you are more likely to have cancer in your prostate than any other part of you. It's also more likely to kill you than any other form of cancer. Oh, and there is also the extra bonus of a 35 percent higher chance of ...READ MORE
1643DARK FRUIT
The Seedy Underworld of Nature's Candy
How far would you go for a banana? Probably not farther than the grocery store. But that's because you've never tasted a blue ice-cream banana, or an orange-fleshed Haa Haa, or even a Popoulou (its bubblegum-pink interior has a distinct apple flavor). There ar...READ MORE
1645VICE FASHION - AT HOME WITH ALICE

Photos by Ben Rayner
Styling by Alice Dellal...READ MORE
1646SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
CHESTY PREGGOS
You want to know what the best part about a dead baby is? No dirty diapers. No diapers at all really. No money spent on formula. No painting bedrooms pink or blue...READ MORE
1648SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
NINJA GAIDEN II
I have concerns about Ninja Gaiden II, but my overall impression is positive. The concerns stem from comparing it to its predecessor. Ninja Gaiden was one of...READ MORE
1650VICE FASHION - TAKING A DIP

Photos by Alex Sturrock
Styling by Kylie Griffiths...READ MORE
1651A-TOWN REP-RAZENT!
When Bradford Met Soulja Boy (Briefly)
Sorry, jaded white guy who professes to like rap music but can't remember the other guy's name out of Mobb Deep, but we love Soulja Boy. Since when did rap music being fun and goofy again become a bad thing? Ah yes, since out-of-touch old men like Ice-T and GZ...READ MORE
1652HAARP BIZARRE
Secret Military Death Ray Or Weather Research Outpost?
Up in the wastelands of Gokona, Alaska, there is a forest of high frequency radio antennae. The US government claims it is conducting research into the uppermost reaches of the atmosphere, but Dr Nick Begich, a well-respected local education official, suspects...READ MORE
1653GROSS!
Collecting Hair and Then Collecting Stories About the Hair That Was Collected
This guy named Louis B. has been amassing a hair collection for six years. He claims to have upward of 400 bags of the stuff. He started when he was working in a salon and he hasn't stopped since because… actually we have no fucking idea why he does this...READ MORE
1654WOOL OF THE DOG
Photos by Erwan Fichou
Doumé Jalat-Dehen makes wool out of dog hair and then her customers make sweaters from the dog wool. Photographer Erwan Fichou went to visit her in Brittany, where Doumé gave him the names and addresses of some of her clients. Erwan then set off across France ...READ MORE
1655THRIFT STORE GIRLS

Brian Ulrich has been traveling America, taking photos at thrift stores for a few years now. We chose a few of them but mostly focused on girls because we like them and we also like that Screeching Weasel song...READ MORE
1656TAKING ON THE ITALIAN MAFIA
A Conversation With Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano is the 29-year-old author of Gomorrah, the international best seller that, through a mixture of narrative and investigative journalism, exposes the workings of the most powerful, and least known, of the Italian Mafias: the Camorra of Nap...READ MORE
1659TO LIVE AND DIE IN NAPLES
15 Years of Pictures from Italy's Crime Capital
Mario Spada is a photographer from Naples. In 1986, he started to work in his hometown as a photographer's assistant for an agency that organized wedding pictures. From 1993 onward he documented various parts of life in Naples, from kids in the projects of the...READ MORE
1661VICE FASHION - WE LAUNCH ROCKETS IN KAZAKHSTAN

Photos by Valerie Phillips
Styling by Aldene Johnson...READ MORE
1662RECORDS
Music Reviews - The Sundaes Issue
THE FIERY FURNACES
Remember

Whoa, is this really what this band sounds like? I’d just assumed it was your garden variety, Pitchfork-approved yoghurt music for young adult t-shirt wearers...READ MORE
1664THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGE
Words & Photos by Patrick O'Dell
When I first started the Epicly Later'd skate show, Ali Boulala was one of the first people I wanted to do an episode with. In fact, before the show even existed I had dreamed of one day making a documentary about him. He is one of the most charismatic ...READ MORE
1665OH SHIT!
Who's Number One at Holding Number Two?
So I guess some guy apparently went 102 days without taking a dump. But a) he was critically constipated, and b) Uncle John's Bathroom Book of Extraordinary Facts and Bizarre Information is not exactly reliable reference material. Still, it got us think...READ MORE
1666VICE FASHION - ICE CREAM GUYS
(And a Couple of Girls)
Photos by Chris Shonting
Styling by Anette Lamothe-Ramos ...READ MORE
1667VIRGINIANS
Photos by Hannah Modigh
Swedish photographer Hannah Modigh recently spent two months living in a motel in St. Charles, Virginia. She fell in with a group of kids there, started shooting them, and ended up making one of the best-looking documentary series we've seen in years...READ MORE
1669GO TIGERS!
Tamil Girls Are the Toughest Girls in the World
Two years ago, Norwegian photographer Thomas Haugersveen went to Sri Lanka to cover the civil war that's been ravaging the country for the past 20 years. After making initial diplomatic contacts in Norway he managed to enter the area known as Tamil Eelam. It's...READ MORE
1671NEW BEGINNINGS
Larry Jon Wilson is the Heartworn Highways Guy
Larry Jon Wilson is the first person you see when you watch Heartworn Highways, the definitive documentary of the outlaw country movement of the mid-70s led by heroes like Townes Van Zandt and Steve Earle...READ MORE
1672LEPERS, MESSIAHS*
Can You Believe This Disease Still Exists?
*Now, we used the word "leper" here because we wanted to reference an old Metallica song. But you should know that people with leprosy consider that word really offensive. It carries a stigma that they've been trying to beat for years, and it's outdated and ig...READ MORE
1675VICE FASHION - BUBBLICIOUS

Photos by Harley Weir
Styling by Aldene Johnson...READ MORE
1676RAW CHINA

Wu Deshun lives next to a warehouse off Guanghua Lu in what can best be described as a hovel, a cinder block, one-story, falling-apart edifice in the shadow of the almost-completed CCTV headquarters. It's a surprisingly desolate area in the middle of Beijing's...READ MORE
1678VICE COMICS
By Jon Vermilyea
...READ MORE
1679BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
Capricorns on a Temporary Semi-Permanent Hiatus
What happened to Capricorns? Out of that slew of metallic instrumental groups of the last five years they were easily the most interesting, probably by virtue of the fact they played songs that had more than one riff and tempo and didn't have to have 50 differ...READ MORE
1680FOUR NEW GRIME KIDS

Grime is going through a bit of a make-or-break period right now. Most of the better MCs have long given up trying to be grimey and are now doing pop songs with 80s revivalists and covering the Ting Tings (Dizzee) or taking their shirts off in videos and weari...READ MORE
1681ABORIGINAL HEADBANGING
The Most Metal Town in the Whole Wide World Is Wadeye
At the beginning of 2008, the Australian national news reported on a small, isolated Aboriginal community deep in the Northern Territory, aka the middle of nowhere, aka Satan's Asshole, aka East Bumblefuck...READ MORE
1683OUCHY!
A Riot Over Beef Hurt My Face
Hello. This is me in the In Jae University Hospital in South Korea.
There is a puncture wound on my cheek, seven stitches on the inside of my mouth, and another seven on the outside. I also have a dislocated shoulder with ligament damage...READ MORE
1685NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Geographer Takes Photos of Things Really Really Really Really Really Far Away
Trevor Paglen is an experimental geographer working at the University of California. He's reponsible for one of the coolest books on confidential military activities, I Could Tell You But You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me, a collection of the arcane ...READ MORE
1686HOLY SHIT
Bury Bores Thee Vicars
Anyone still waiting for the revolution in sound and vision promised by the Horrors a couple of years ago can probably go home now. Southend's finest have left their mark, though, because today a whole bunch of bands are happily thriving below the radar, break...READ MORE
1687STRASSEKAMPFER
The Illegal German Fighting Scene Is Where It’s At
MMA may seem like the "real deal" in the US, but in terms of pure, totally unrestricted fighting it's got nothing on the illegal matches that have been going on in Germany since the Cold War. Two networks of fighters and organizers developed independently of e...READ MORE
1688LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Sundaes Issue
Crime-A Series Of Extraordinary Interviews Exposing The World Of Crime-Real And Imagined, Death Pits, The Unholy Hand Vol. I, Dirty Hand, Obnivorious, Apesma, Roadkill...READ MORE
1689GET TO THE POINT
Pens Bring Back the Spirit of Girl Punk Groups Sounding Retarded Again
Awhile ago we started doing monthly issue launch parties at the Old Blue Last. The whole concept should have been pretty elementary: have a party, a bunch of people drink and the bands covered in the magazine that month come down and play. No big deal, right? ...READ MORE