Brooklyn on Vice
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New York State of Mind
Flatbush Zombies, Gangsta Boo, Chippy Nonstop, and World's Fair
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, so we've linked up with scene insider Verena Stefanie Grotto to document the movement as it happens in real time. This week, she caught up with Flatbush Zombies, Gangsta Boo, Chippy Nonstop, and two dogs in a jogging stroller. Full story
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The Underachievers Talk About Stop-and-Frisk and Kimani Gray
The Underachievers have managed to rise up out of their Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. But it wasn't long ago that they were getting stopped and frisked by the cops, just like the other hundreds of thousands of black and Latino male New Yorkers. I talked with them about the N… Full story
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Munchies
Walter's
So you're an all-American boy, and you meet a potential sex partner who doesn't seem terrible on OkCupid. After the second date things are looking pretty decent, and now you need a not-too-expensive place to go for dinner and drinks that also has to be super casual so you can wea… Full story
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Kimani Gray and Two Weeks of Struggle in Flatbush, Brooklyn
Daily demonstrations in Flatbush began two weeks ago, after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was gunned down by two plainclothes cops with lengthy histories of misconduct, who ambushed the young man on the street, jumping from a vehicle and discharging seven shots, three into his back. Full story
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Taji's Mahal - Hanging with the Bossman
For this week's Mahal, I headed out to Crown Heights in Brooklyn to hang out with up-and-coming musician HOA Bossman. We cruised the neighborhood with local skaters Andy Millien and Aaron Warner, checked out where the Bossman lays down his tracks, and ended our day with his dad a… Full story
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Motherboard
The Space Suit Makers
When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. They didn't imagine they'd eventually be in business designing space couture in a modest studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Full story
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Amy Sedaris Is Good at Acting Drunk and Gay
Amy Sedaris is a booze-hound lesbo in the latest episode of 'F to 7th,' an online lesbian web series. Watch this while you caulk your bathtub or organize your compost. Full story
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May Streetwear Keep You Forever Young
Mishka’s Mikhail Bortnik Deals with Success and Getting Older
One of Mikhail Bortnik's passions turned into something more than another collection piled high in his apartment, and that was streetwear. Why streetwear? Maybe because to Mikhail, as he later told me, it represented “being 16 forever, a permanent adolescence.” Full story
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Tubesteak
My Very Gay Night at Very Straight Strip Clubs
I'm about as gay as Cristiano Ronaldo's underwear drawer, so the sultry photos plastered outside of New York’s mega strip club, FlashDancers, have never really interested me. Recently, though, I got to thinking, and as a man who loves sex, sex workers, the Platonic company of oth… Full story
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King Kava: A Savage Journey into the Dark Heart of Brooklyn's Alt. Beverage Industry
Brooklyn is overrun with alternative beverages. Normative modes of thirst quenching have been abolished. Nobody is safe from roving gangs of maté and kombucha dealers. Amidst turf wars one company dared to introduce a new drink that will "change the game." That drink is Kava. Full story
The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The Dark Specter of History in Memphis
Hung Like a Gastropod
The Rigors of a Snail-Genital Illustrator
Austerity's Drug of Choice
Sisa Is Nasty Shit
This Is What Winning Looks Like
Chaos and Corruption in Afghanistan
The Fat Farms of Mauritania
Pack on Those Pounds, Ladies
Jerks Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Get It Together, People