Not-So-Easy Rider

Motorcycle Boot Camp

The last time I was on something with two wheels, it was a friend’s bike. I rode it for about a block on a New York City sidewalk before I hit the brakes too quickly and fell sideways. Now, here I am, after my boss sent me to do the Harley-Davidson Taste of Freedom Tour, to learn to ride a motorcycle over four weekends and write about it. Full story

How to Eat Pigs' Feet

When Eddie Huang told VICE that he was changing the menu at BaoHaus, where he will now be sampling pigs' feet cooked in scallions, ginger, garlic, soy, rice wine, and rock candy (yes, rock candy), served over rice alongside his grandmother’s recipe for Dong An chicken, I put on m… Full story

How to Be an Adult: Spend More than $1 on a Brush

I was in the middle of sending a text message, dodging Tupperware from yesterday’s lunch on my floor, and consoling my roommate over boy problems when that $1 round brush claimed a quarter of my hair—a very valuable quarter that sits right on the top of my head. Full story

Olympic Medalist Danny Kass Tried to Teach Me to Snowboard

I’m one of those pretend-athletes. I go to the gym four or five times a week, but I have zero coordination. I “race” on a stationary bike to the imaginary scenery that the spinning studio so thoughtfully plasters on the back of the wall. I actually caused what seems to be permane… Full story

The Writing Is on the Wall

Anti-Regime Activist Tarek Algorhani Talks About Fighting Guns with Cans and Tags

Tarek Algorhani launched a human-rights internet project centered around tagging anti-regime graffiti throughout the streets of Syria. In mid-October I called him up to ask how the fight was going. Full story

This Is Food Porn: Antica Pesa

I always get really embarrassed when I talk about my trip to Italy. I’ll get questions like, “Did you go to the glass factory when you were in Venice? It’s amazing,” and I’ll always shyly answer, “No, but I ate at this one restaurant by the Jewish Ghetto, and THAT was amazing.”… Full story

Let Them Build a Women-Only City in Saudi Arabia

If Saudi businesswomen think this will help with the 78 percent unemployment rate of their female graduates, then who are we to say it won’t work? If the goal is positive then why are we all so negative? Full story

I Was a Corporate Tobacco Peddler

You know that reoccurring dream you get where you feel so heavy and you’re trying to move or run but you’re not getting anywhere? And you scream for help, but your voice doesn’t make a sound? And everything is dark? That’s what it was like working at Philip Morris. Full story

If Only Egypt Made More Movies about Terrorism and Kebab

Thanks to Egypt’s oppressive government, the only films coming out of “Egyptwood” nowadays are shitty remakes of already shitty American films. Here’s a rundown of some of the worst. Full story

I Wonder What It’s Like to Have My Husband Fuck My Dead Body

The Egyptian government is conjuring up one more way to fuck the women of their country. Literally. Full story