MICHAEL MOYNIHAN
This particular Michael Moynihan has never written a book about Norwegian death metal and isn’t a member of Blood Axis. That’s a very different Michael Moynihan (the one who claimed he wasn’t a Holocaust denier because he’d “prefer it to be true”). Our Michael Moynihan, while married to a Swede and also from Boston, is a former political journalist and senior editor at Reason magazine, a soporific television talking head, and a frequent contributor to all sorts of journals your dad likes to rest across his chest while snoring like a chainsaw in the living room. He is now our managing editor. He is also diabetic. Deal with it.
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STUART GRIFFITHS
Photographer Stuart Griffiths joined the Parachute Regiment at age 17 and served in Belfast during the Troubles in the 80s and 90s. On leaving the army he found himself homeless and living on the streets of London along with other ex-soldiers. He found his way out through photography and making a film about his life, Isolation. Over the past year or so he’s been working with us on a documentary about post-peace-process Belfast and all its attendant dramas. We recently went there to take part in parade season (that’s when everybody throws rocks and petrol bombs at one another), and Stuart came along to snap photos.
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AVI DAVIS
Avi Davis is an American who works in Mexico City teaching English. In another life, he used to be VICE’s office manager in Brooklyn but left in a glorious Hiroshima of burned bridges to pursue “literary stuff” (not really, Avi is a studious and very nice gentleman, but that truly is the best way to leave a job). Four years later, he needed some new shoes (or botas, as he now calls them), and so here we are. For his grand return to the VICE fold, our prodigal son tracked down Changoleón, Mexico’s most famous bum-turned-reality-TV-star. In the end, the search would cost Avi hours of waiting, untold frustration, $43 USD, and his dignity.
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MATTHEW FROST
Matthew Frost is part of the benighted profession of fashion photography, but we swear he’s one of the good ones. You know, the fun ones who kind of dress like new dads and don’t seem like they’re taking anything seriously (while secretly they’re taking every technical and creative detail very seriously), not the preening, kissy-faced cocksuckers who look like an eight-year-old girl dressed up her pet chinchillas and left them too close to her Make into a Person machine. For this issue we sent him to a nudist colony in upstate New York, where he shot a fashion spread with a very attractive model and some not-so-attractive naked old people.
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