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Why Now Is the 'Golden Age' of Selling Weed in New York, According to Dealers
Weed is popular and partially decriminalized, but its illegal status means profit margins are still high. All of that is good news for dealers in NYC.
Breaking Up with Your Bestie Is Brutal
We asked people to detail the messy entrails of their friendship fallouts. The reasons range from pedophilia and white privilege to Evangelicalism and pathological lying.
Dissecting Parquet Courts' Surreal Stress Dreams About Endless Subways
Sean Yeaton is a brilliant bizarro and also the bassist of Parquet Courts. Whenever the band goes on tour, he has this recurring dream about a labyrinthine subway system and a vague destination he never reaches. We had an analyst interpret the...
Drug Dealers Explain How They Keep Their Hustles Secret from Their Families
'Breaking Bad' is probably the best known pop-culture example of a drug merchant's life getting turned inside-out, but it happens to ordinary people the world over. We interviewed several about how dealing complicated their lives and relationships.
Dream Dealing with zZz: H. Jon Benjamin’s Mid-Life Crisis Nightmare
The comedian, who provides the unmistakable voices of the titular characters on 'Archer' and 'Bob's Burgers,' described a recent dream to us and analyzed it himself. Then we sent it to a Jungian analyst and dream expert to get a second take.
Talking Tags and Technology with Legendary Producer and Graffiti Artist Goldie
Goldie, arguably the most famous drum 'n bass and jungle producer to ever do it, just launched a graffiti app called ARTA. The artist wants it to honor the tradition and history of tagging, while also modernizing its culture.
'Pulp Macabre': The Art of a Guy Who Used to Bring Severed Heads to the Bar
The art of Lee Brown Coye features the type of work that made fans of horror and science fiction fanzines drool—grisly worlds filled with ghouls, monsters, and morbid anatomy.
'The Things I'm Interested in Have to Be Cheap and Strange': Talking to Artist Jim Shaw
Before his retrospective at the New Museum closes, the iconic "lowbrow" artist discussed his disdain for art fairs as well as his appreciation for stuff with a "psychotic undercurrent."
Mark Flood Is Trolling the Art World with 4Chan Filth and Disgusting Memes
The 58-year-old artist has curated a show of Texas-based artists that features some of the web's gnarliest images.
H. Jon Benjamin Voices His Thoughts on Funny Voices in 2015
The voice behind the titular characters on Archer and Bob's Burgers talked to VICE about some of his favorite stuff from 2015, as well as what he thinks the funniest thing he did this year was.
We Got Star Wars Newbies to Review 'The Force Awakens'
According to them it features "giant metal dogs," and is sort of like Adele, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Disneyland, and "Top Gun."