Published December, 2002
 DISABLING OPINIONS
From South Park to Howard Stern
When Vice first brought up the idea of doing a "special issue" featuring some of my friends with disabilities I was a little hesitant. While I've enjoyed Vice and its confrontational style, I wasn't sure how it would go down. It's something I've ...Read more |
  BEATS AND RHYMES
Fritz le Chat's 5th Annual Rap Awards
SHIT THAT RULED IN 2002
Neptunes/N.E.R.D., Devin the Dude's album finally came out, Swollen Members and Moka Only blowing the fuck up, Buck 65 signed to Warner (!!), gangsta rap, Nelly (so many...Read more |
 DOCTOR DOCTOR
Soap Opera Expert Ronnie Simonsen Gets Down With General Hospital's Brightest Star
This is Ronnie Simonsen reporting for Vice. I like General Hospital's Leslie Charleson because she plays a doctor. She plays a cardiac surgeon. I've been following her career since 1977. I belong to her fan club and I get personal letters from he...Read more |
 BY DESIGN
Friends, I'm about to reveal something that may frighten and scare you: the Japanese are waaay ahead of us. Sacrificing height for a fourteen-hour advantage over NYC, the zippy little people in the east are engaged in a battle for freshness we can't even dream...Read more |
 HARD ON
Long Live Tujiko Noriko's Beaming Joy
Finally there's someone who isn't afraid to let her happy thoughts spill out like crayon-drawn smiley suns and flowers. Tujiko Noriko is a musician who drops the rock star front and just lets her heart pour out....Read more |
 DEAR DIARY
Entry: January 1995
Last night was Maskarave. It started out really good because the music was so phat and me and Jolene got microdots. I saw Marlene and was happy. We talked about good things like boys and poetry and I just miss and love her a lot. Then I did some K and...Read more |
 HISTORY IS BULLSHIT
Scene Creamers Write Their Own
Ian Svenonius is the only DC punk rock luminary who, in conversation, sounds like a lost Theodor Adorno book that rips apart contemporary culture and makes you laugh at the same time. They both say things like "approximating historical antecedents" instead of ...Read more |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Vice never made it to to the special CHAPMAN BROS All Tomorrow's Parties down in Camber Sands but we heard good things about it. Everyone who witnessed it says the freakiest incident happened during Peaches' performance when she started crowd-surfing wh...Read more |
 HOW'S YOUR ATTITUDE?
Sue Harrington Makes Her Corrections Accordingly
Good day Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Susan Harrington. I am a 36-year-old woman who was born with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia. This basically means that I have nerve damage in my eyes. What I have not yet told you is that at birth I was unfortunately diagnosed...Read more |
 THE MAYOR OF TELEVISION
The Ins and Outs of My Son Larry
We first knew that Larry had a disability pretty early, maybe when was just 7 or 8 months old. When he couldn't get up by himself, I knew something was wrong.
Of course, they tell you about all these different doctors that can save him: This one's good fo...Read more |
 GAMES
Games Reviews - The Special Issue
UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003
Back at the end of ‘99 two games reigned supreme as top contenders in the online first-person shooter genre: Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. Both games featured arena-style death...Read more |
 MERDE!
The Wheelchair Underneath This Painting
Stephan Blanquet is a gimp from France who is fat as hell and has an incredibly hot girlfriend. He's also the best cartoonist in the world. He's so prolific, in fact, that you feel like an asshole calling him a cartoonist. He's more of a sequential painter. Or...Read more |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Special Issue
CHARLEY MAGAZINE
Maurizio Cattelan is most likely our favorite artist. He’s funny, smart, and an expert at taking the piss. He’s also Italian, constantly smirking, and when he says “hi” to you when you’re...Read more |
 MY WAR
CP Thinks That It's My Friend But It's One of Them
Since my debut in the world 48 years ago, spasticity and involuntary movements due to cerebral palsy have been the dictators of my body. These twin Saddams constantly fight for control of my legs, arms, and throat muscles, creating a never-ending battle that f...Read more |
 MY WAY
DJ Hell Hasn't Slowed Down (But He Wants To)
The best part about interviewing DJ Hell late last year wasn't the interview in a fancy Munich restaurant where everyone worshipped the dapper Gigolo primo. No. The bestest part, the thing that summed up Hell before we'd even met, was being picked up at the ai...Read more |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
BODY SLAM VOL. I
"Hey, baby. You want to wrestle?" That’s been my pick-up line for years, and it totally works. That line is actually what seduced my current girlfriend. I remember seeing her...Read more |
 PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE
50 Cent Takes on 30 Rappers
We at Vice are taking full credit for 50 Cent getting signed to Eminem's Shady Records. In '99, the song "How To Rob An Industry Nigga" came out, with 50 Cent namedropping over 30 rappers with shit like, "I rob Pun without a gun, snatch his piece and ru...Read more |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Special Issue
SAMBO'S
Most Quebecois don't know this but Denny's used to be called Sambo's. Motherfucking Sambo's. America went nuts when they figured it out and banned them all; all but one. That is why...Read more |
 REIGN IN HELL
Hate Eternal Won't Serve in Heaven
Death metal is back. Where the fuck did it go? "It never went anywhere," shrugs Hate Eternal's Jared Anderson. "It's angry music, and it belongs where it is. This way it stays pure. Purity is very important." No shit. Serious aficionados of the game constantly...Read more |
 RONNY AND ME
The Special Olympics of Comedy
Ronny Weintraub is this 41-year-old retarded guy who I always see at my shows at Caroline's Comedy Club. He's a kind of fixture there. In their minds, he's a retarded adult who they tolerate and allow to watch the shows as long as he behaves himself. In his mi...Read more |
 UYA UYA A BUYA
The Ups and Downs of My Son Bobby
When my son Bobby was born in 1954, they didn't tell me he was a Down's Syndrome. I didn't know until about a year later. He got measles and had to go back into the hospital. The doctor said to me, "I didn't think you'd even take him home," but I did take him ...Read more |
 WHO CARES?
The Totally Retarded Use of the Word Retard
There's a difficulty in writing about retarded people that stems from the word itself. The word retarded, while being technically correct, still feels a little awkward and has an unintended harshness attached to it. But shortening retarded to retard is no solu...Read more |
 SOCIAL SUICIDE
Patrick Wolf Moves to Zombie City
Patrick Wolf is a special little boy on a special musical mission. He sings sweet songs and wears special clothes and plays magical homemade instruments and knows a lot about electronics and lives in a ramshackle little cottage down by the marsh's edge. Some p...Read more |
 VICE FASHION - THE SPECIAL ISSUE
Photos and styling by Tim Barber
Jeremy Vest, 18, from Maryland is the newest and youngest member of the How's Your News? team. A multi-instrumentalist and avid music fan, he was brought in to play drums in...Read more |
 SORRY GUYS
Midnight Movies' Special Photo Demands
Midnight Movies look like a Calvin Klein perfume ad, like if Simon Cowell designed a special ultimate post-rock group for your dad so he can relate to you more.
They even have a singing drummer, Gena Olivier, a slender girl who sounds like...Read more |
 GRIMEWATCH
You know when Madrid put Michael Owen on the bench earlier in the season, (sorry to anyone reading this who doesn't like footy or is a girl) then he didn't throw any kind of tantrum and took it on the chin?...Read more |
 SHORT HAIRED WIMPS
Wolfmother's A Special Case
Wolfmother are three skinny indie-looking puffs from Australia who look like they can't handle their ale and only get erections every five days, and then only after taking ten Viagra, a bottle of poppers and listening to Kylie Minogue and Erasure while pissed ...Read more |
 WTF
Is "The Special Issue"?
The best film that Ben Affleck ever starred in didn't even make the newspapers. It was a documentary made last year by a group of people with disabilities who all work together as part of a news team called How's Your News? The film On The Campaign T...Read more |
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