The Catastrophes Issue

Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia

Ivory Wave

Surfing a Big Fat Line of Question Marks

"Once you have experienced ivory wave bath salts you will hoe to apply in the future." Full story

Uh Oh, It’s Him Again

Revisiting Gaspar Noé Post-Enter the Void

Gaspar and I met for breakfast in Soho and he told me he hadn't had any sleep because he'd got into a fight the night before. He didn't go into the details, and tried to wake himself up with a plate of fruit. Full story

Los Angelenos In Swedish Garms

Photos & Styling by Maja Flink Full story

Ooh! Think Twice

It’s Just Another Day for You and Me in Paradise

A group of people called Sock Mob has been organising guided homelessness-themed tours of Shoreditch in east London led by the real-life homeless. I’m not sure if it’s to raise awareness or money or whatever, but I decided to go along. Full story

Hide & Seek

Photos by Jonnie Craig
Styling by Milène Larsson Full story

Literary

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? THE ESSENTIAL DAVID SHRIGLEY. Who doesn't like David Shrigley? That's right, no one. I am reliably informed that even Nan Goldin owns a set of his “cocaine” and “heroin” salt and pepper pots, so there you go. We haven’t c… Full story

Shot By Kern's European Vacation

Last summer, Richard Kern came to Europe and did a tour of sorts for his popular VBS show, Shot by Kern. Along with director Jim Demuth and myself, Kern visited London, Barcelona, Milan, Berlin, Antwerp and Paris Full story

High Times In Oslo

A Brief History of Norwegian Punk and Metal With Diskord

When my buddy Sindre Solem told me that his band, Obliteration, were playing Oslo’s Øya festival, I knew a trip to Norway was mandatory Full story

Big Bob’s Mod Photo Album

A Brief Retrospective

Big Bob Morris is a long-time associate of Vice and well-known London raconteur and sportsman. Recently he showed us this huge archive of east London mod photographs. We used one of them by the table of contents in last month’s Anti-Music Issue, but didn’t have space Full story

When Jamie Met Jack

Pints of Guinness and Escaping from Lunatic Asylums

There are lots of good stories about Jack Bond. There’s the one with the armed helicopter that chased him across an Italian mountainside, there’s the one about getting sacked from Points of View, and the one about doing LSD on television. Full story

We Used to Be Like Brothers...

Shawn Brown Spills the Beans on Dag Nasty

To some, Shawn Brown is a legend of hardcore. A one-off. A voice who injected real anger and passion into a genre renowned for crybabies and tough-guy posers. As the original vocalist in Dag Nasty he helped Brian Baker exorcise his post-Minor Threat demons before getting unceremo… Full story

Vice Fashion - There’s No One Quite Like Grandma

Photos by Ellis Scott
Styling by Lulu Wentworth Full story

Die, Die, My Darling

Nice Day For a Ghost Wedding

Well, we were looking for proof of bodysnatching because we’d heard rumours of a black market trade in stolen corpses to meet the demand from the Chinese tradition of “ghost weddings," which are like arranged marriages for the deceased. Full story

Vice Photo Expo L.A.

Every year, VICE puts on a photo show at the Scion gallery in L.A. This year's show was curated by Jonnie Craig, who dug out 60 works by 18 of our favourite photographers from all corners of the world. The collective Full story

Caviar Vs Fried Pizza

The Difference Between PJs and EJs Explained by Comanechi

We first met Akiko Matsuura about six years ago at some godforsaken aftershow party after a godforsaken party at the Old Blue Last Full story

New Jersey Fashion Week

In the past year or so my home state of New Jersey has become a punchline for reality TV. Full story

WTF Maximus?

German Fitness Camp Tarted Up With Gladiatorial Accoutrements

A 59-year-old German oil magnate named Hans Schaller recently spent €200,000 on funding an experiment to transform 20 unhealthy students into modern-day Roman gladiators. Full story

Hammer Time, All the Time

On Tour with the King of Florida’s Interracial Gangbang Scene

I spent a week in the Sunshine State, sitting in an enormous American car next to an ex-marine called Art Hammer as he took me on a tour of sex hotels, bad restaurants and beach towns that would really benefit from a 12-foot rise in sea level. Full story

Socialist Child Beauty Parlour

Inside Chavez’s Second Biggest Money-Spinner

German-Norwegian photojournalist couple Ben Speck and Karin Ananiassen recently spent ten days depicting one of Venezuela's most prestigious beauty academies, the castings, and the wildly popular TV-broadcasted "Miss" competitions. Full story

Et Spiritus Sancti

Fun and Games at a Chechnyan Exorcism

On a recent trip to predominantly Muslim Chechnya, photojournalist Olga Kravets found an Islamic medical centre in Grozny where women suspected to be possessed by the devil go through a violent procedure to "get rid of their demons". Full story

Bring It On Home

The Southern Boys Behind Eastbound & Down Send Kenny Powers' Ass to Mexico

The morning after Richard Kern and I arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the call came in from the publicist at HBO. “The guys are shooting scenes with Kenny at the mansion.” Full story

Karen Russell Interviewed By Rivka Galchen

If ever there was someone whom I’d be happy to see at my own funeral—meaning I guess that I wouldn’t really mind that it was my funeral—it would be Karen Russell, or Karen’s prose. Full story

Lisa

(from a memoir in progress)

"Come on,” Teryn whispered. She had opened my window from the outside, and was on her hands and knees. I had fallen asleep with a book on my chest. “Hurry. If Mom and Dad catch you we’re both dead.” Full story

Paul Virilio

Cultural theorist Paul Virilio has been repeating essentially the same thing over and over for the past 30 years. Maybe it’s time for everybody to start listening to him. Full story

The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Juliane Koepcke was born a German national in Lima, Peru, in 1954, the daughter of a world-renowned zoologist (Hans-Wilhelm) and an equally revered ornithologist (Maria). Full story

Archival Catastrophes

In my day job, I work as an archival-image researcher. I always keep an eye out for things that I think typify the American experience, like banjo players, crazy preachers, hobos, and disasters. Full story

The Children Of Kampiringisa

Kampiringisa, Uganda’s only juvenile-detention facility, is not only a prison; it also doubles as temporary housing for Uganda’s hundreds of homeless minors. Full story

Powers Of Ten

Nature swallowing us up whole. Full story

Doomsday Scenarios, Considered

Mark Reid is senior radio astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Full story

Sisters of Mercy and the Temple of Love

Living With the Devadasi Sex Cult

Mala and Belavva are best friends and members of an ancient Hindu cult of prostitution. Full story

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Trubble Club

Sunny Days Full story

Letter From The Guest Editor

You can make a pretty good argument that if you’re an apocalyptic you’re both fucked up and plugged into the zeitgeist. I was an apocalyptic kind of guy before I even understood what the word meant. Full story

Skinema

The Mommy X-Perience

Strange things happen to a woman’s vagina after a human slides out of it, aside from the obvious stretching and tearing. Full story

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Hot Dog Full story

Employees Of The Month

Jim Shepard is to blame for six novels and four story collections, including You Think That’s Bad, coming out in March 2011 from Knopf. Full story

End Permian Extinction

Charles Darwin didn’t believe in catastrophe. The whole idea struck him as implausible, a product of the sort of antiquated thinking that mixed science and religion, Noah’s flood and the ice ages. Full story

Records

As the most revolutionary MC of the last 15 years, you'd expect Lil B to divide rap fans. Just like the purists who refuse to acknowledge anything written after the golden age, you can bet there will be folks who never touch anything past 2010 (or, more realistically, 2013). Full story

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Zach Hazard

Hell Toupée Full story