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Hearing from Three Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Who've Been on Hunger Strike for 100 Days

Yesterday was the 100th day of the inmates' protest against their treatment and, out of the 166 still being held at Guantanmo, 102 are on hunger strike, with 30 being force fed. Authorities shackle hunger-strikers to chairs and insert tubes through their noses and stomachs to force feed them for up to two hours at a time.

Thought and Memory

Back in 2008, when my first novel, 'A Tree Grows in Baghdad,' came out, my publisher sent me on a West Coast tour. Sometimes folks came out in droves, sometimes they didn’t. It was great to see my public, regardless. I found I liked signing books. I must have shaken a thousand hands.

The People VS Flatbush Zombies

It's Flatbush Zombies turn to wade through comments about drinking bleach, Kimbo Slice comparisons, and fans jizzing into their earphones.

May 20 2013 Noisey Staff Noisey

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I Went Snooping Around Nicolas Cage's House

My favorite four things in this world are 1) bargains, 2) rich people's houses, 3) celebrities who have been famous for so long that they're losing their grip on reality, and 4) snooping through other people's stuff. So I was overjoyed when I found out there was going to be an estate sale at Nicolas Cage's house.

Weirdo Club

It's a normal night in the cemetery until the unholy fermented ichor comes out and things get weird.

Some Photographs from the All About Pets Show

After 20 years, the All About Pets Show remains Canada's largest pet convention. Our pal Nathan Cyprys went out to take photos of all the cute animals and their weird owners. He spent his time being surrounded by howling kids and animals and he loved it.

Taji's Mahal

Shredding with Galen DeKemper

Galen DeKemper has been shredding New York City for the last decade. For this week's Taji's Mahal, I got to talk to him about his latest skateboarding video, 'MMM,' how Houston Bump and Gay Ledge are his favorite skate spots in the city, and the future of the New York skateboarding scene.

Rat Tail

The Debut Single

The following is an excerpt from the liner notes of Rat Tail’s one and only album, 'The Motorola Pimp.' His whereabouts are unknown. He seemed to be on the rise when his album was first released. Shortly after getting in an altercation with rapper Ice T, Rat Tail vanished.

A New Episode of Our TV Show Is Airing Tonight

Here at the VICE HQ we have a gigantic hourglass that we reset each week to count down the days until the next week's HBO show. It takes ten interns all heaving at once to flip it, and the chances of one of them getting pinned underneath or losing a limb is real high. It adds a good deal of suspense to the buildup though, and according to our in-house risk-assessment team, it's totally worth it. That is all to say that there is a new episode of VICE on HBO tonight.

Question of the Day

How Would You Feel if Your Mayor Smoked Crack?

It's not totally surprising that famously erratic Toronto Mayor Rob Ford got filmed sucking a glass dick. But what would it be like if a more respected authority figure, like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was found in similar cracked-out circumstances?

This Is Life in a 400-PPM World

Climate scientists found that for the first time in 3 million years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million. That figure was splashed across the front page of the 'New York Times' and top White House advisors find it "truly frightening": the more carbon dioxide that accumulates in the atmosphere, the more sunlight it traps—and the more the globe warms.

May 17 2013 Brian Merchant Tech

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Tubesteak

How to Hone Your Gaydar to Perfection

These days with more and more social circles becoming sexually diverse, how can you tell if the guy swinging a glow stick next to you at some Bushwick "rave" is looking to put his pole in a hole or looking for another pole to pole all over his face?

Gangsta Boo Reviews Azealia Banks, MIA, Iggy Azalea, Brooke Candy, and More

Gangsta Boo embodies a lot of what is desperately missing in the rap game right now. So, I invited her to the VICE offices to sit together and watch some music videos by some of the hottest lady rappers out today.

Rob Ford, the World's Greatest Mayor, Smokes Crack

Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, has been caught smoking crack on video. Allegedly. The tape is for sale, but hasn't been sold yet, which leaves us wondering: What kind of incompetent blackmail-video salesman is behind this controversy? How can you mess up on monetizing such a golden piece of footage? One must assume they’re ready to let it go at fire-sale prices right now.

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The Fat Farms of Mauritania

In Mauritania, a country crippled by food shortages, obesity is viewed as a sign of wealth and prestige in a woman. To attain Mauritanian standards of beauty, many women undergo the practice of 'gavage,' or "fattening up." While traditionally the practice of fattening includes chugging camel's milk in a nomadic camp under a sweltering sun in the Sahara Desert, for a modern-day Mauritanian woman, appetite-inducing pills are the new way to pack on the pounds.