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ANYTHING GOES When it Comes to Hos, The First Player's Ball Of The Year Got The Biggest Stable After the success of the last original Player's Ball in Chicago, everyone was trying like hell to get one in his own hometown. There were hundreds of slick-ass, trash talkers trying to get Bishop Don's blessing, but it was an up and coming pimp named JuJu who ...Read more

VICE COMICS By James Kochalka, Jeff Roysdon, Walt Dohrn MAGIC BOY, CAMPFIRE STORIES, WRETCHED RHAPSODY...Read more

AXE THE FARM What's up with this Hoof-and-Mouth disease or Foot-and-Mouth or whatever you call it? It's not a North American thing, not yet. Europeans are frantically trying to put a lid on it before it becomes as big as Mad Cow disease. What is it?...Read more

DEAR DIARY Entry: June 27, 1985 Thursday night I didn't do nothing and Friday night I went to the Belle River Jam, where four bands played, including Soldier, Drama, Stripes and The Look. I was having fun flirting with the Look band and I kissed every one of them but ended up right making ou...Read more

SAFE TO DANCE If They Don't Dance Well, They're No Friends of The Gossip The Gossip may have the same blues and roots music influences as The Rolling Stones, The MC5 and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, but what they do with them is entirely new. In the hands of three barely post-pubescent Southern kids, blues-based rock gets fused wit...Read more

GET PISSED DESTROY Miklos Serrai Calls The City's Bluff Throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn there are hundreds of totally useless fire alarm boxes. They sit on street corners about four feet high, eight inches square, painted red and occasionally silver. They are all regularly maintained to look good, even if they do...Read more

SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko GIRLS WHO PUKE Working for Larry Flynt allows me to access all genres of porn, even bottom of the barrel shit like Girls Who Puke, which, although not even slightly erotic, holds a special place...Read more

THE VICE GUIDE TO NEW YORK GRAFFITI New York's graffiti scene in 2001 is made up of some of the most reckless drug users in America. Their crew is called Irak. They are rude, illegal, sometimes gay and always on the verge of losing their lives. We like to write about people who get fucked up, bu...Read more

PRETTY ASS, HIGH CLASS What That Ludacris Nigga Know About The Dirty South Whoever said hip hop was an inner-city phenomenon was probably an inner-city crack addict. Rent a movie like Down South Hustlers and you'll see nothing but country rappers driving Impalas down dirt roads, pumping slow 808 beats and keeping it real in sh...Read more

PEOPLE OF THE ROCK Oneida's Papa Crazee On the Cult That Spawned the Band VICE: Is Oneida a hard rocking band from New York that gets wasted all the time? Papa Crazee: Oneida was a cult founded in 1840 by a strange man named John Humphrey Noyes (which when said repeatedly sounds like "Hump Free Noise") who was really in ...Read more

THE VICE GUIDE TO OUTLAWS & FOOD Outlaws can be a picky lot. Jesse James, a chili head, refused to rob the Lone Star Bank in McKinney, Texas because his favorite chili parlor was there. Billy the Kid was allergic to dairy products and the Sundance Kid wouldn't eat an egg unless it was served ...Read more

ADAMSVILLE TO POOL CREEK Shit Like Prefuse Just Don't Sleep in The Dirty South Prefuse 73 is on some other shit. Also known as Scott Herren, this schizophrenic hip hop producer concocts the kind of experimental electro-funk that makes your neck jerk. Live instrumentation and bizarre scratches are all over his debut full-length, Vocal Stu...Read more