 EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTH
LISA CRYSTAL CARVER
Lisa has a band called Suckdog (well, technically, it’s more like a live opera of blood and nudity than an actual band) and is the creator of the hands-down best and most unique zine of the 1990s, Rollerderby. There...READ MORE |
  VICE MAIL
Letters - 1994
Yo Vice,
Your magazine is dope. It’s my favorite, along with Big Brother and Project X. My name is Ryan but my friends call me Ginch. I’m 17 years old and a junior at Ramsey High...READ MORE |
 STREET POLL
How do you feel about, you know, current events and stuff?
AGNES
Vice: True or false: Jim Carrey is the pinnacle of modern humor.
Agnes: No. He’s not funny. He’s just ridiculous. I don’t like him...READ MORE |
 HEY, ABC
Keep My So-Called Life on the Air!
Why aren’t more people watching My So-Called Life? This show is seriously the best thing on TV right now, and someone needs to convince ABC to keep it on the air. My So-Called Life makes you remember what it was like to be a teenager, tryin...READ MORE |
 I ACCIDENTALLY MADE A POPULAR ZINE
It’s About Evan Dando
Last year, in the summer of 1993, I read a quote from Evan Dando, lead singer of the band the Lemonheads. It was about how he’d rather be more like a woman because “men have proved that they really can’t get it together, they can’t be c...READ MORE |
 THE COWBOY WAY
Is the Best Movie of 1994 So Far!
Am I the only person who saw that movie The Cowboy Way? Maybe you saw City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold and figured cowboy-anything died the day Billy Crystal dared touch it (twice). But The Cowboy Way is better! It’...READ MORE |
 MOTHER OF ALL STRANGERS
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Is the Best Band of Right Now, Which Is 1994
I’m going to wager that a widely understood chronological line of demarcation is drawn in the Matador Records catalog, denoting an “After” good-times vibe and a “Before Slanted and Enchanted” soul-sucking vortex of financia...READ MORE |
 THE HEART & SOUL OF A BAND CALLED PAVEMENT
Now, we all know lots of stuff about that dreamboat Stephen Malkmus. We get it. He’s a lyrical genius, a hugely underrated guitar player, and he’s real cute. We also know enough, for now, about Spiral Stairs, Malkmus’s partner in Pavement lea...READ MORE |
 LIGHTEN UP!
The New Gay Seriousness Is A Drag
“There’s not any cruising in here at all!” my friend Alphonse complains, looking around. He’s right. The predominantly queer crowd of ACT UP members stuffed into Revolution Books on Avenue B in New York’s East Village is rigid, al...READ MORE |
 GIRL GERMS
How My Riot Grrrl Bubble Got Burst
I used to feel so lucky whenever I would spot a hair extension lying haphazardly on the sidewalk. It was better than a penny or a four-leaf clover. In my former ignorance, I didn’t know that a cheap weave sometimes slips out of its own accord. I thought ...READ MORE |
 LISA LISA AND CULT LOEB
Why Bad Men Love Good Loeb
We look to pop icons to find our opposite, to break us out of our identity shells. I listen to Iggy Stooge and am transformed into a tofu-and-heroin-driven insanity gymnast. In real life, I am none of those things. Through Iggy, for a few minutes or hours, my ...READ MORE |
 I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE
A Heart-to-Heart With Elizabeth Wurtzel, Author of Prozac Nation
Eight years ago, when Elizabeth Wurtzel began writing her memoir about being depressed at Harvard University, she wasn’t trying to be the poster child for glumness in America. But in the few months since her book has been out, that’s exactly what s...READ MORE |
 PREPPY IN PINK
Daisy von Furth Is the Girl Behind X-Girl
If you are a young female person in New York in 1994 and you are not wearing X-Girl, you are not cool. Does that hurt your feelings? Sorry, but it’s just a fact, and facts can hurt...READ MORE |
 MOVE OVER CINDY CRAWFORD
Jenny Shimizu Is Making You Look Fat
Of course you recognize Jenny Shimizu from Steven Meisel’s ubiquitous new Calvin Klein CK One perfume ads that are covering magazines and billboards around the world. And you’ve probably seen the ads on TV with all those strung-out-looking weirdos ...READ MORE |
 OH, SNAP!
Ricky Powell Hearts New York, Except for the New Jack Cornballs
Rappin’ With the Rickster is the best thing to watch late at night when you’re stoned and bored. It’s the best nonporn public-access show going (unless you’re on acid and you want to have a terrifying trip, in which case we recom...READ MORE |
 TERRY RICHARDSON IS OUR FAVORITE.
Terry lives in Manhattan’s East Village, where he takes photos of his neighbors and his friends, from junkies and drunks to artists and punks. We think he’s the best, and we hope he sticks around forever. And he just might—rumor has it that at press time on th...READ MORE |
 LUDLOW STREET, MON AMOUR
One Night of Alternative Culture on the Lower East Side
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is not a fashionable destination. Populated primarily by dive bars, nodding junkies, and boarded-up storefronts, the thought of anything even remotely related to trendiness, fancy clothes, or art happening down here would be pr...READ MORE |
 MAD FOR IT!
How to be a New Lad in 1994
A “new lad” is an exclusively British phenomenon. It has appeared on the cultural landscape thanks to the popularity of the Manchester cocaine band Oasis and the new men’s magazine Loaded...READ MORE |
 DATE-RAPE ME, MY FRIEND
Good Drugs Get a Bad Rap
This is a touchy subject, I know. Largely because everybody seems to think that at some point they have been given an adulterated drug. Everyone who has done enough LSD will tell you they have dropped a blotter with strychnine, everyone who has smoked a little...READ MORE |
 BOO NANCY! YAY TONYA!
Tonya Harding Is the Bee’s Knees
Is it so wrong that I sympathize with the ice-trash hell spawn? I’ll take Tonya Harding’s focused growl, obnoxious outfits, and teased bangs with the sketchy dye job over Nancy Kerrigan’s chilly demeanor, moose teeth, and facelift-y ponytail ...READ MORE |
 HANG THE O.J.
Kato Kaelin is Pretty Sure O.J. Simpson Killed Nicole
Recently, on June 12, 1994, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson was stabbed to death in the tony Los Angeles enclave of Brentwood, California, along with 25-year-old waiter Ronald Goldman. I’ve never heard much about Brentwood, which sits j...READ MORE |
 ARMAGEDDON PARTY
Aum Shinrikyo Can’t Wait for Nuclear Winter
As if there were ever any cause for doubt, Japan’s absolute cultural superiority over America is by 1994 a total given. Our bathroom technology makes it look like you’re still shitting in cave holes, our rockabillies’ hair is on average four ...READ MORE |
 WHAT IS AL-QAEDA?
Remember that Ryder truck that was crammed with canisters of compressed hydrogen and a few nice long fuses and driven into the World Trade Center’s underground parking structure and blown up last year? It blasted a hole through four levels of concrete su...READ MORE |
 MEXICO’S BURNING
¡Viva La Zapatista Army of National Liberation!
Marco Antonio Cruz, the director of Imagen Latina, an independent photo agency based in Mexico City, spent a few weeks in December of last year, 1993, taking portraits of blind people in the mountains of Chiapas, the southernmost and poorest state in Mexico, f...READ MORE |
 THINGS FALL APARTHEID
South Africa Gags on Democracy
South Africa’s first apartheid-free presidential election is finally here, and to punctuate just how important this shit is, citizens have started a civil war so they can kill one another in its honor. Political analysts say Nelson Mandela and his Africa...READ MORE |
 A RISING SON
Will Kim Jong-Il Save North Korea?
On July 8, 1994, North Korea’s Great Leader, Kim Il-sung, finally passed on to the great DMZ in the sky. Now, only months later, it’s looking like his embalmed corpse will forever reign from under a glass coffin like an all-knowing bottomless bowl ...READ MORE |
 IT’S CALLED THE INTERNET
And It’s Going to Save the World
If you’re among the lucky 25 percent of Americans who own a PC in 1994, chances are you’ve graduated from futzing with crude drawings of human and animal genitals in Microsoft Paint to sidling up beside your screechy modem armed with one of those i...READ MORE |
 SCENE REPORT
Columbus, Ohio
Hey everyone reading Vice. I’m excited I get to do a column this issue. I still think Vice is kind of a Big Brother rip-off but beggars can’t be choosers. I make a zine in Columbus, Ohio, called Rye Zine (a hilarious pun...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
JOHN WAYNE BOBBITT UNCUT
Remember last year when Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband’s penis? The news sent a shock wave through the misogynist community like a frickin’ A-bomb. Gigolos...READ MORE |
 SHEPPARD’S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
SONIC & KNUCKLES
Remember I said Nintendo is winning the console war? Well, they are, but not for lack of effort on Sega’s part. Sonic & Knuckles is the latest Sonic game, following...READ MORE |
 ZINE SCENE
WAFFLE #4
The Love & Hate Issue is full of, you guessed it, the stuff we all love and hate (love: Jesus Lizard; hate: Barney the Dinosaur—ooh, take that, Barney!). Those Waffle kids sure know how to get good interviews. In this issu...READ MORE |
 MUSIC REVIEWS
1994
MELVINS
Prick
Two albums from the Melvins in the same year. What have we done to deserve...READ MORE |
 DEAR KURT
March 6, 1994
Dear Kurt,
I was watching the news tonight, and they said that you were in Italy and that you were in the hospital cuz you o-d'ed and I freaked out so bad I was shaking and crying...READ MORE |
 MO’ FUTURE FOR YOU
A Dispatch From Covent Garden
Among London’s hip thinkers it is commonly known that the real weekend starts on Monday, after the shivering door whores, standing guard between two bouncers outside the latest superclubs, with their clipboards and dress codes, have seen off the last of ...READ MORE |
 THIS IS UKHC, NOT LA
The British hardcore scene is so exciting at the moment… and weird. A few years ago, the concept of major label A&Rs at hardcore shows was unthinkable, but now, probably thanks to things like Nirvana and Green Day getting signed, bands with their ro...READ MORE |
 RECORDS
Music Reviews - 1994
PAVEMENT
Crooked Rain,Crooked Rain
Best record of 1994 so far. ’Nuff said....READ MORE |
 STREET POLL
Australia to become a Republic
With all the public groping, it looks like Keating will finally rid us of the royal family for good. Not a moment too soon either. Come on Aussie, it’s time to pick a new head of state...READ MORE |
 BENDING GENDERS
With Australia’s Most Elaborate Subculture
Ever since Leigh Bowery left Melbourne’s depressing Western suburbs for London’s even more depressing suburbs and passed his style tips on to the influential Boy George, club kids have had to dress like un-dead drag queens at a Halloween party to e...READ MORE |
 THE FRENTE! BACKLASH
Angie Hart’s Leaving and She’s Taking Her Band With Her
It wasn’t long ago that Angie Hart was a sixteen year-old regular at our favourite Fitzroy live-music venue, the Punters Club. That was just prior to one of the bar tenders asking her to join his band, Frente!, at which very moment they began making a bu...READ MORE |
 THE NEW NOISE
Getting to Know Lightning Bolt
Without a single release to their name and only a handful of shows under their belts, a brand-spanking new trio from Providence, Rhode Island have been creating a crazy frenzy in the North East. Their shows are like anarchist induced guerilla warfare and their...READ MORE |
 THE KING OF RAVE GRAPHICS
Troy Innocent Doesn’t Do Fractals
If you’ve been to a dance party in the last four years, there’s a good chance you got the directions to the decrepit warehouse in the Western suburbs from one of Troy Innocent’s flyers. As one half of art collective Cyber Dada, Troy is pushin...READ MORE |
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