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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.

This Week in Racism

Former Italian Prime Minister Dressed up Strippers to Look Like Barack Obama

According to testimony given during the prostitution trial of his three former aides, Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was alleged to have dressed women up like Barack Obama, and had them perform stripteases. Now, I am not here to debate the erotic merits of President Obama. I am here to wonder if these women wore blackface.

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.

VICE on HBO Extended

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.

Photos of the Phenom, Vitor Belfort

Before his fight this weekend in Brazil, legendary UFC middleweight Vitor Belfort posed for photographer Kenneth Cappello. See shots of the UFC titan with Royce Gracie, his son, and his fists up.

May 17 2013 Kenneth Cappello Sports

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Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex?

Many of America's prisons are run by for-profit corporations, so clearly some people are making lots and lots of money off the booming business of keeping human beings in cages. But who are these people? Using some publicly available data, I came up with a few names.

Ben Anderson Is Doing a Reddit AMA Today

At 11 AM today, Ben's going to be doing a Reddit AMA, where you can ask him anything about his new VICE documentary, 'This Is What Winning Looks,' which chronicles his time embedded in the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police, as they prepare to take over policing of the country.

Bob Odenkirk’s Page

VICE Endorses Jipson Talmadge

The "Bike Lane" Candidate for Mayor of New York City!

Jipson Talmadge is a 32-year-old resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, occasional crasher of couches in Manhattan, and VICE's choice for the next mayor of New York City with his plan for an "ALL-BIKE NEW YORK!"

Munchies

Hatos Bar

Our buddies from VICE Japan hung out with the crew from Hatos Bar in Tokyo's Naka-Meguro neighborhood. Hatos Bar serves up American-style pit barbecue at its best. Owners Sou Ieki and Dubrai showed us their favorite places to go out and then got wasted before cooking up some barbecue.

Kai, the Hatchet-Wielding Hobo Wanted for Murder, Says He Was Drugged and Raped

It's a truly bizarre and tragic twist to the "home-free" tale of everyone's favorite hatchet-wielding hobo, who it's been said harbors a bit of a violent streak.

VICE News

Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor

A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor. The ingredients are basically meth and filler things like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. It acts faster and the effects last longer than coke, and it can be produced in home-based laboratories.

SCUM DADZ, Fat Jew's New Web Series Where He Does Drugs in Front of a Baby

Our most famous DOs & DON’Ts caption writer, the Fat Jew, has a new web series that illustrates exactly what happens when a filthy degenerate decides reproduction is a good idea. It’s called SCUM DADZ.