Cover photos by Roe Ethridge
  VICE MAILBeary Scary, Your Ad Here, Over the Edge, You Ain't Got No Alibi, Pralines 'N' Wha?
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 THE CLOWNY CLOWN CLOWN ISSUEThis issue is so fucking good we decided it ought to have its own little song and dance. So we had composer Drew Swinburne make us a theme song. We knew Drew could write a song that would match our cover photos because he does the score for VBS.TV's Cute Show and an experimental puppet show c... | |
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 SHIT-INThailand’s Latest Coup is Bourgie and WeirdThe bathroom tile is slick with black liquid. I'm hesitant to enter barefoot, but a grade school boy has pointed to the "No Socks and Shoes" sign scrawled in Thai on a torn square of cardboard. He's sitting behind some bureaucrat's desk, which is absurdly huge for a little kid. Right now, however, ... | |
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 THE MAGIC JEWSFrom Manischewitz to MescalineWhen I first walked into the apartment on Ridge Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I didn't see much because the lights were off. It was a long empty room with couches lining the walls. Empty cans and bottles everywhere. At four in the morning all that was left were the remnants of a party.... | |
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 SKINEMABLACK POWER 3
I've always dreamed of having Black Power because I think it would be awesome to be able to dunk a basketball. When I was younger I could touch the rim but now I'm fat and old and I doubt I could even touch the net. Have you ever seen NBA mascots jump on the trampoline and ... | |
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 SOVIET HERITAGEUnderstanding Pink ReasonRemember when Little Girl Lost came out and everyone was shocked that Drew Barrymore did coke when she was 12? That shit is small potatoes as far as busted childhoods go. Right after the fall of the Soviet Union, Kevin Failure's parents moved from Wisconsin to Siberia (Siberia!), where 12-yea... | |
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 SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIEBy Stephen Lea SheppardMETAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS
This is an occasionally impressive and often ridiculous 12-hour movie with some often satisfying and occasionally clumsy gameplay thrown in.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is the seventh game in the Metal Gear series. All together, the series tell... | |
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 WHAT MAKES A CLOWN SO CLOWNY?Let’s Meet Five Pros: Gabooba, aka DannyVice: What did you do before you became a clown?
Gabooba: I worked at temp agencies. I was an assistant to a chef. I also worked for the City of New York Parks Department. But in high school I won class clown, which inspired me to try my hand at stand-up comedy for a few years. Life tak... | |
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 THE ODD COUPLEDinner and DMT With GrowingThe first time I did DMT I was listening to Growing. I left my body and went blissfully floating through a heavenly realm of gothic cathedrals and blue shiny caves under a pink sky made of billowing curtains. Then, unfortunately, I coughed and saw an octopus with a screaming skullface try to smother... | |
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 THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGEWords & Photos by Patrick O'DellToday I am swamped filming the Epicly Later'd show. I was at Guy Mariano's house this morning and Marc Johnson's house in the mountains yesterday. My life is filled with this stuff-questions, schedules, phone calls-and yet it doesn't even feel like work. I am trying to get ahold of Lance Moun... | |
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 BROTHEL NEWSBrewer Gets Weird UpProstitution in the Czech Republic is something of a grey area when it comes to things like "laws" and "regulations". It's pretty impossible for the government to keep a handle on disease, human trafficking and underage sex workers in a country thought to have up to 25,000 prostitutes working in it.... | |
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 LITERARYRADIO SILENCE, NO WAVE/NO WAVE, FONT. THE SOURCEBOOK, FUN, DANCEHALL, STICKER BOMB, DON’T CRY TONIGHT, MODERN HATE VIBE #2, STRANGE AND STRANGER—THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO, CHIMPS #10RADIO SILENCE/A SELECTED VISUAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN HARDCORE MUSIC
There have been plenty of books about hardcore recently but this is easily the best one. It's a photo-led scrapbook of the two authors' insanely comprehensive collections of artwork, shirts, flyers, old cassettes, and rec... | |
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 MERSEY INFANTICIDEInside the Violent Lives of Liverpool’s Eleven-Year-OldsIn the northeast of Scouserland, aka Croxteth, Liverpool, there lies a delightful old stately home. About 500 acres of it were made into a country park in 1972 and all through the year, families take day trips there to frolic in the fields, eat ice cream, and have a go on the swings. It's bloody lov... | |
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 THE DOODLES OF WARBloodthirsty Child Soldiers Tag LiberiaThe child soldiers of Liberia have taken street art to another level. Tim Hetherington, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year in 2007, took these terrifying photos during the blood-drenched civil war over there a few years back. The childlike scrawls of rape, violence and intimidation are pret... | |
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 RECORDSMusic Reviews - v15n9YO MAJESTY
Futuristically Speaking… Never Be Afraid
Domino
I thought this was supposed to be lesbian hip-hop, but it's just, like, a bunch of angry ladies yelling over old Missy Elliott beats. Oh, wait a sec, I guess that IS lesbian hip-hop! Job well done, sistas... | |
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 RAW CHINAA Day with Alfredo Martinez at the Military MuseumThe first thing that catches Alfredo Martinez' attention outside Beijing's hulking Military Museum is a 400-foot-long Scud missile on a trailer to the right of the entrance. "The Russians didn't have GPS, so these are just guided by gyroscopes, which means they're ‘guided' in the sense that they'll ... | |
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 BOTH SIDES NOWMexican Immigrants and the Families They Left BehindThere is an amusement park in Alberto Town, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is run by Hñahñu Indians. There, instead of the usual merry-go-round or Ferris wheel, amusement takes a different turn: One can pretend for a couple of hours to be an illegal immigrant trying to get across the Mexico-US ... | |
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 THE SECOND COMINGDJ Cut Hands Has the SolutionHands up who's always wished that somebody could make a record that was partly inspired by things like the traumatic stories of genocide from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch?
Yeah, me neither, but the weir... | |
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 THE GREATEST DRUG OF ALLFive-Way Loving With The Big PinkThe Big Pink are two friends called Milo and Robbie who make noisy shoegazey music with an ever-revolving band of musicians including people like Akiko from Comanechi and Daniel O'Sullivan who plays with SunnO))) and Ulver.
They're causing a real flutter among the indie tipsters of London tow... | |
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 VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE’S LISTSNIKOLAI GOGOL (1809-1852)
In 1831, the young Russian author wrote to his mother, "Suffering from hemorrhoids, I had the foolish idea that it was some other and more dangerous ailment. Later I learned that there was not one man in St. Petersburg free from this nuisance." Lifelong overeati... | |
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 VICE FASHION - SWEDISH GIRLS WHO DON'T LOOK "SWEDISH"Photos by Marguerite Seger
I'm half French, half Sinhalese, and when I look at contemporary fashion shoots I can't relate at all. Plus I used to model, and the only work I could get was sitting in lotus position with a fucking bindi on my forehead, in an "ethnic" shoot.
I wanted to ta... | |
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