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Taji's Mahal

Jade's Roll

For this week's Mahal, in honor of the recent warm weather in New York City, I bring you Jade Katzenellenbogen's photographs of even warmer people. Here is what she had to say about the series: "I've learned over these past couple of years how important it is to keep taking film photos." Full story

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Kicking Heroin with an Ibogaine Ceremony

Heroin is the most addictive drug on earth, and some people will do anything to kick the habit. Enter Ibogaine, a drug made out of the African iboga root, whose intense, hallucinogenic properties make it a type-A felony drug. But many swear it's the most effective way to kick her… Full story

The Creators Project

Turning CCTV Footage into Art

We're constantly being spied on by closed-circuit television cameras, those electronic eyes peering down at us and monitoring everything we do. But as Orwellian as it all seems, this invasion of privacy and erosion of our civil liberties can serve as a source for art. Art like Ti… Full story

Carlos Rafael and His Fish Are the American Dream

I'm sitting with Carlos Rafael in "Carlos Seafood," an unremarkable looking seafood supply warehouse in an industrial park near the waterfront of New Bedford, a fishing port in southern Massachusetts that for 12 consecutive years has reported the most revenue from domestic fish l… Full story

Pen Pals

HardWhite and Harry Potter

Harry Potter was fresh from the world and had a sickness to feed. The weakling fiend probably hated everything right now, but mostly he hated that his drug was gone. All Harry Potter will want is to get high and the boys are about to swarm on him. Little white wizards get no play… Full story

Young Americans

Season Two Trailer

In season two, ethnicity is the overarching lens through which Lance and his team focused in on some targeted topics such as body image, socializing, and media representations. The end result was a documented survey of people from a wide array of ethnic communities hailing from a… Full story

Please Start Banning Books Again

I kind of miss the idea of cultural lines that one can’t step over. One of my most memorable high school experiences was getting a permission slip signed by my parents so I could listen to an audiotape of Allen Ginsberg reading “America.” Full story

The VICE Reader

Sort by Kind

The VICE Reader is a series in which we publish original fiction—mostly. We will also feature the occasional poem, essay, book review, diary entry, Graham Greene-style dream-diary entry, Zemblan fable, letter to the editor, letter to a fictional character, and anything else that… Full story

Stoya on Peeking Behind the Porn Curtain

As a culture, we are fascinated by what entertainers and public personalities do when they aren't at work and how they became who they are. This is why demand for biographies, interviews, and backstage/on-set photographs exists. The superficiality in these projects rubs me the wr… Full story

Cry-Baby of the Week

This week: some kids got arrested for a water-balloon fight and a guy is suing Taco Bell for stealing his ideas. Full story

Marc Maron Is the King of Twitter

It comes as no surprise that the most common subject on Maron’s Twitter feed is, you guessed it, Marc Maron. He’s amassed 240,000 Twitter followers, created the one of the most popular podcasts on the internet, netted his own IFC show and got a book deal by giving the people what… Full story

Amy’s Baking Company's Grand Reopening Nearly Bored Me to Death

In some kind of misguided attempt to renew their brand, Amy and Samy of the infamous Amy's Baking Company hired a PR guy and decided to have a relaunch. Since I work right down the street from the restaurant, I decided to drop in. Full story

Rave and Hardcore YouTube Comments Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

It's commonly held knowledge that most YouTube comments rank up there with Houellebecq novels and Somme fatality statistics as some of the most depressing things you can read. But, thankfully, there are a few diamonds of decency in that online hate-pit, and they usually arrive be… Full story

Alexis Neiers’s Pretty Wild Road to Recovery

The Former Celebrity Thief and Drug Addict Who Inspired Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’

Alexis Neiers's life has been turned into a meme, a magazine article, a book, a symbol for millenial narcissism, and now a movie directed by Sophia Coppola and starring Emma Watson. But she's trying to escape all that. Full story