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  • Meet the Malaysian Neo-Nazis Fighting for a Pure Malay Race

    They realize that Nazis generally don't like Asian people, but apparently that doesn't matter. I was told that the most popular Malay power band is an act named Boot Axe, so I got in touch with band member Mr. Slay to find out why exactly a group of Malaysians are going through this bizarre, neo-Nazi identity crisis.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • The Mercy Rule

    Hearing the Spurs

    As I age, my ear is retuning itself; I can finally hear something other than “ugh” watching the San Antonio Spurs play, which is cool, except how it parallels suddenly finding a 'Rod Stewart Sings the Standards' record soulful and great.

  • 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.

  • Dodging Water Cannons and Sound Bombs at Israel's Catastrophe Day

    I arrived in Jerusalem on Nakba Day. Nakba (a word that translates as "catastrophe") Day commemorates the 750,000 Palestinians who were forced from their homes when Israel became a state in 1948. I expected shit to get wild, but the speed with which the demonstration went from zero to full throttle shocked even me.

  • 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.

  • 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 Like,' which chronicles his time embedded in the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police, as they prepare to take over policing of the country.

  • Cry-Baby of the Week

    This week: a guy who destroyed his neighborhood versus some guys who arrested a kid for mooning.

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    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.