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The only bad part of capturing a sleepy-eyed supertigress like this in the wild is trying to think up some bullshit to write about her shirt. Comments/Enlarge | See all


Without bringing a bunch of writing or props into it, three shorts and no shirt is probably the easiest way to dress up as the opposite of a brain surgeon. Comments/Enlarge | See all








Cover photo by Jamie Lee Curtis Taete



2000VICE MAIL
Letters - The Writing-Cute-Things-On-The-Spine-Of-This-Magazine-Every-Issue-Is-Starting-To-Feel-Like-A-Lame-Gimmick Issue
On Not Getting It At All, Voice of the Gods, Bloom Gloom, Policy of WTF, Bangkok 101...READ MORE
2001SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
DISCOVERING ALEXIS TEXAS
A year or two ago, Vice sent me around the country to promote my book, Skinema, and one of the stops was in Austin, Texas, at the largest bookstore in the state...READ MORE
2002PUNK CRAWL
An Unintelligible Dispatch From an Aussie Mohican
Got to fang out with all me mates today at the pub crawl. Flamin' Galahs. Fuckin' happy as pigs in mud. Oi… Mike and Garry the cunts were well maggott'd and on about their new band they shoulda asked me to be in. No time anyway. Got on for young and old with t...READ MORE
2004A NICE, THICK, UNCUT 12-INCH SHROOM
The Penis Mushroom Blows Us Away
There is a mythical shroom that is unlike any other shroom. For, you see, this mushroom looks like a penis—not just a little bit like a penis, as many mushrooms do, but exactly like a penis. Perhaps you've heard of it? And although mushrooms usually sprin...READ MORE
2006SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: PERSONA 4
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 may be the last important PlayStation 2 release in the United States. It might not. I would have said the same thing about its immediate...READ MORE
2008VICE COMICS
By Johnny Ryan
DRUGS NOT HUGS...READ MORE
2010PUT A DONK ON IT
On the Road With Britain's Newest Insane Musical Trend
Those looking to shatter their last, lingering hopes for the future of Britain should visit the town of Burnley in the northwest of England. What used to be a prosperous cotton-mill town is now decimated by the terminal decline of industry in the country, wit...READ MORE
2012YOU DO HAVE TO LIVE LIKE A REFUGEE
Japan's New Breed of Web-Savvy Homeless
In that age-old contest, that heroic battle of champions to decide which country has the world's premier internet cafés, none can truly compete with Japan and its facilities. In Nippon, the web-browsing establishments are composed of personal rooms, each furni...READ MORE
2013MEXICAN GIRLS ON FOUR-WHEELERS
I Love Going Home
My mom was born in a small town in western Mexico called Cotija, Michoacán. Although few people know about it, everyone owes this town a debt for giving the world the delicious Cotija cheese, some chubby Catholic saint, and one of Mexico's most infamous...READ MORE
2014DICKLESS WONDERS
Be Careful, or the Hijras Will Hex You
India’s proud community of boys who would rather be girls has officially breached the half-million mark, and we wish we could hug every one of these crazy, lovable, mixed-up bastards. They’re a ubiquitous breed known as hijras, or “impotent ones,” with ...READ MORE
2015THE BIGGEST COMIC BOOK EVER
Kramers Ergot Isn't Just "Isn't Just for Kids Anymore" Anymore
In early 2000, a husky Los Angeles fellow named Sammy Harkham threw together a comics zine with some of his friends and gave it the weird, possibly very pretentious name of Kramers Ergot. And it was good. And so were Kramers Ergot 2, 3, 4, 5, and...READ MORE
2017SHOT BY KERN
Photos by Richard Kern
This is Laura. She lives in Mexico City. Kern shot her on his recent trip down there... There’s not much more to say, other than that we like seeing girls sitting on toilets. Is that weird? Oh, and you can catch Laura on Shot by Kern on VBS.TV this mont...READ MORE
2018HAMILTON’S PHARMACOPEIA
A New Monthly Column by Hamilton Morris
SPICE GOLD IS WEED BUT NOT (BUT KINDA IS)
There used to be countless websites selling Spice Gold, but that’s changing fast. Now when I visit Spiceworld420.com, I’m greeted by sizzling metal guitar riffs...READ MORE
2019VICE FASHION - GAS FACE
Humans Under the Influence of N2O
Photos by Maciek Pozoga
Styling Julie Allard...READ MORE
2020EPICLY LATER'D
By Patrick O'Dell
Hey everyone, here's my page again. A few months ago, I wrote about how I hate dumb skate kids. I read the comments online and people were pretty bummed at what I said, but I have a feeling that the people who were bummed haven't been to a skate park lately. A...READ MORE
2022VICE COMICS
By Derek Ballard
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON FUCK ALL Y'ALL...READ MORE
2024THE BEST OF THE BOOT?
Neapolitan Neomelodics Make-a da Pop Music Sound-a Niiiiiiice
Ask any average Italian what pops into their head when they think of Naples, and you'll almost assuredly get the same three things every time: pizza, garbage in the streets, and the most powerful international crime syndicate in the world—the Camorra. Doe...READ MORE
2025BARREL BURNERS
One UK Town's Insanely Dangerous Tradition
Vice: Um, what the fuck are these guys doing?
James Pearson-Howes:
It's called Tar Barrels and it happens every year on November fifth. The local townsfolk take turns running through the packed streets with burning...READ MORE
2026NORTHERN LIGHTS
Inuit Teens Make Their Own Scenes
Photographer Eva-Marie Rødbro, it would seem at first glance, is a bona fide lover of misery. Fresh off an assignment documenting young girls working as prostitutes in the Czech Republic, she returned to her native Denmark eager to investigate the suicide epid...READ MORE
2027THE RIVER STYX IS FULL OF BOOZE
Drinking Oneself to Death Is Serious Business
Photographer Casper Dalhoff recently spent some time in a Copenhagen institution for chronic alcoholics. Thirty-nine men and women live there, all fully resigned to the fact that they are dying because of drinking, yet all still drinking like so many suicidal ...READ MORE
2029EMBEDDED

In the summer of 2008, photographer Pieter-Jan De Pue sent us an email asking if he could give Vice's contact information to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the hope of securing an assignment to be embedded with American tr...READ MORE
2031ON THE TOWN... WITH JORDAN!

This here cute feller is Jordan, our photographer Jamie Taete's boyfriend. When they're not pounding each other's tender boy asses, you can generally find the cuddly duo traipsing around London, shouldering up to some of the HOTTEST celebutantes and famousista...READ MORE
2032SNAP HAPPY
One Man Took a Polaroid Photo Every Day for 18 Years
New York artist Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid photograph every day of his life for 18 years, between 1979 and 1997, with a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project "Photo of the Day". ...READ MORE
2033VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S LISTS
7 Common Superstitions
GETTING OUT OF BED ON THE "RIGHT" SIDE
To arise from the left side of the bed will put you in a sour mood and will subject your entire day to misfortune. Get up from the right side and step first on your right foot...READ MORE
2035VICE COMICS
By Dan Zettwoch
THE URINE OF THE GRAYS...READ MORE
2037BODY FARM
Hands-On (Really On) Forensic Science
These simple words, followed by an office and a home phone number, usher one into the quiet landscape beyond it: a couple acres of nondescript, fenced-in land, and in the distance a shed, an abandoned trailer, a few trees, and some dirt paths. There are rows o...READ MORE
2039RECORDS
Music Reviews - The Writing-Cute-Things-On-The-Spine-Of-This-Magazine-Every-Issue-Is-Starting-To-Feel-Like-A-Lame-Gimmick Issue
IUD
The Proper Sex

Fact: Lizzi and Sadie are single-handedly keeping the legacy of weirdo NYC...READ MORE
2040FREAK SCENE
One Guy Has Lots and Lots of Weird Old Photos in His House
You will almost certainly have seen images from the Burns Archive, most likely in books such as Death Scenes. But the archive of Dr. Stanley Burns covers far more than forensics and violence. The New York-based ophthalmologist has dedicated his life to ...READ MORE
2041NOTHING TO DO
On the Dole in Rochdale
On the Falinge estate in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, over 75 percent of the residents of working age are on benefits. Many newspapers were up in arms about this, so we thought we would ask the few locals who would let us southern fairies into their...READ MORE
2042SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER

In the last half-century, Detroit lost more than half its population. Those leaving the city were mostly white people who fled to the suburbs. As a result, the tax base was destroyed and the black population that remains has had to govern a 139-square-mile cit...READ MORE
2044VICE FASHION - STOOD UP

Photos by Lele Saveri
Styling by Aldene Johnson...READ MORE
2045HATE, SODOMY, AND MODELS
Mike Bones Is Our Favorite Misanthropic Singer-Songwriter
We first came across Mike Bones while he was playing guitar with one of our other favourite singer-songwriter guys of all time, Cass McCombs. He then turned up playing with yet another band we have a big crush on, the Sian Alice Group. With those credentials a...READ MORE
2047READY TO FIGHT
Vancouver Punks White Lung Are Prepared to Kill
Hardcore is just about the gayest form of music around. Electroclash? At least those guys had the balls to come out with it and dress like women. Italo-disco? Those guys can all take ten times the drugs you could. Hardcore, on the other hand, is full of rippli...READ MORE
2048LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Writing-Cute-Things-On-The-Spine-Of-This-Magazine-Is-Starting-To-Feel-Like-A-Lame-Gimmick Issue
The Curious World Of Drugs And Their Friends, Ward 81, Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volume III, We Are Experienced, Beaufort West, That Rose Red Empire: A Confidential Report, All Known Metal Bands, AIDS in Odessa, Hello Buddy!...READ MORE
2050VICE COMICS
By Shintaro Kago
KAGOMANIACS...READ MORE
2052SEE THE POSSIBLILTY NOT THE DISABILITY
UV Race Scare Us With Poetry
The UV Race are a pack of mutants. Skinny, fat, daggy, female and male mutants. They play songs that conjure up the corpses of Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks to shit all over the floors of hundred capacity venues, spastic homes and Hungry Jacks. At the fore...READ MORE
2053HELLO TITTY
Breast Milk Cupcakes Are Nature's Candy
A while back, PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, made all the "weird news" columns in the US by suggesting that Ben & Jerry's should use breast milk, like the kind your mum fed you from her mum tits, instead of cow milk. What crazy nuts! What a...READ MORE
2055VICE COMICS
By Tom Herpich
...READ MORE
2056FERAL BEASTS
Selling Camels to the Arabs
Suprise, 1,000,000 camels are roaming the Australian desert. They're the great, great grand-children of imported pack animals that helped build our rural power and rail networks. Set free at the advent of the petrol engine, those animals took to their new home...READ MORE
2057SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
HALO WARS
OK, first thing you should know: I’ve got an Xbox 360 demo unit. I use it to play pre-release review copies of certain games, such as this one (also Dead Space, Ninja...READ MORE