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My Friend Is Wearing Abercrombie & Fitch for an Entire Year

Back in high school, I avoided Abercrombie & Fitch like botulism, because everyone I hated (or at least was forced to tolerate) was dressed tip to tail in this stuff. So when my friend, the artist Amanda Schmidt, told me that she was rocking 'Cromb for an entire year as a performance art/life project, I decided to pick her brain to figure out what the hell she's doing to herself.

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Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony

Heroin is the most addictive drug on earth, and some people will do anything to kick the habit. Enter Ibogaine, a drug made out of the African iboga root, whose intense, hallucinogenic properties make it a type-A felony drug. But many swear it's the most effective way to kick heroin addiction—especially when combined with a voodoo-type ritual that involves face paint and chanting.

Is War Brewing in Niger?

The uranium-mining town of Arlit, Niger, is at the center of a potential conflict between American and French forces and the West African terrorists who want to expel the armies from the country for good. Understandably, all of this conflict is very hard on the residents.

Fringes

Deportee Purgatory

About 40 percent of Mexican immigrants deported from the US are sent back through Tijuana. Many of the deported border crossers have established a makeshift shantytown inside a dry, concrete riverbed where the Tijuana River once flowed—called 'El Bordo.' A camera crew from VICE Mexico recently went to El Bordo to meet its residents and the people trying to help them.

Meet the Nieratkos

Jeff Grosso Has a Beautiful Mind

Is Jeff Grosso the last vestige of free speech in skateboarding? We don’t know, but we like the way he talks about drugs.

The Creators Project

Turning CCTV Footage into Art

We're constantly being spied on by closed-circuit television cameras, those electronic eyes peering down at us and monitoring everything we do. But as Orwellian as it all seems, this invasion of privacy and erosion of our civil liberties can serve as a source for art. Art like Timo Arnall's short film 'Robot Readable World' which was culled from found footage, and the paintings of William Betts.

Carlos Rafael and His Fish Are the American Dream

I'm sitting with Carlos Rafael in "Carlos Seafood," an unremarkable looking seafood supply warehouse in an industrial park near the waterfront of New Bedford, a fishing port in southern Massachusetts that for 12 consecutive years has reported the most revenue from domestic fish landings in America. In 2011, that figure topped $369 million. Here, fishing is big business.

Pen Pals

HardWhite and Harry Potter

Harry Potter was fresh from the world and had a sickness to feed. The weakling fiend probably hated everything right now, but mostly he hated that his drug was gone. All Harry Potter will want is to get high and the boys are about to swarm on him. Little white wizards get no play in county lockup.

Ryan Florig Blends Skate Photography with Guns, Weed, and Fire

Self-taught with disposable cameras and skateboarding friends, this Washington-based photographer thrives on the principles of street photography.

Cry-Baby of the Week

This week: Some kids got arrested for a water balloon fight and a guy is suing Taco Bell for stealing his ideas.

Director Alex Gibney on Hackers and Julian Assange

If Michael Moore is obsessed with outrage and Herzog is obsessed with dreams, Gibney is a master of moments. His style of circular storytelling punches the paradigm straight in the face, especially in his new documentary about Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and Wikileaks.

May 24 2013 Daniel Stuckey Motherboard

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MMA's Greatest Moment (and Ben Henderson's Worst) Makes Its Way into the Mainstream

As long as he lives, Ben Henderson—who is the UFC lightweight champion of the world—will never be free of Anthony Pettis’ mind-scrambling, sport-redefining, iconic leaping-off-the-cage head kick that capped off their championship fight, especially since it has been immortalized in the first MMA video game commercial.

May 24 2013 Josh Rosenblatt Sports

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Tobaccoland

The tobacco industry in Indonesia is virtually unregulated. The result? Over two-thirds of all men are smokers, and it is commonplace for children as young as six to take up the habit. Tobacco is a $100 billion industry here, with TV and print ads everywhere. While investigating this phenomenon in Malang, VICE's Thomas Morton got the full smoke-therapy treatment at a clinic that promises to cure a plethora of modern ailments through smoking.

Speaking with Adam Kokesh, Before He Was Detained by the Feds

Kokesh is a former Iraq War veteran and the guy trying to organize an armed march in Washington, DC. On Saturday he was arrested at a Smoke Down Prohibition rally, and is currently being held in federal custody. I spoke to him about his march and other stuff the day before he was detained.