Rocco Castoro
Guns in the Sun
Weeks before the almost unfathomable mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro visited Florida to dive headfirst into its byzantine firearms laws and discover why his home state was the first in...
Guns in the Sun
There are 270 million legal guns in the US. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of firearms laws, you might say that the situation presents a wicked problem—something that can’t be objectively solved or even described.
John McAfee States Alibi on the Record, Retains Lawyer
Yesterday, John McAfee and his lawyer held a press meeting during which he announced that he had documentation proving “the intense corruption at all levels of the Belizean government.” On the ride over to the press meeting, John stated on the record...
John McAfee Is in Guatemala City and He Just Hired the Best Lawyer in the Country
This morning I had a delicious breakfast of crepes and fresh fruit with John McAfee and his 20-year-old Belizean girlfriend, Sam Vanegas, at a luxurious resort in Guatemala City. We awoke early, preparing for our meeting with powerful Guatemalan lawyer...
Governor Chris Christie Pigged Out During Hurricane Sandy
Most Americans are unaware that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has a password-protected livestream from a webcam mounted in his refrigerator to monitor his “food bank.” After analyzing footage taken inside the fridge sent to us by an anonymous...
Road Trip: Finding Marion Barry
On Monday former VICE managing editor and recently appointed cultural news editor of the Daily Beast Michael Moynihan and I headed to Washington, DC to see what our nation's great capital had to say on the day of the third presidential debate.
We Gave Bullshit E-meter Readings to Complete Strangers
The Hubbard Electrometer, more commonly known as the E-meter, is a "religious artifact" used to measure the state of electrical characteristics in the static field surrounding the body. E-meters operate in a similar fashion to lie detectors, relying on...
David Blaine Likes Electricity So Much He Should Marry It
As I write this David is being blasted by bolts of electricity produced by seven giant Tesla coils situated around him on a metal trellis erected on Manhattan’s Pier 54. I’ll probably be chided by some smarmy art Nazi for saying this, but I can’t seem...
Cat Marnell Explains Herself
Regular readers may have noticed that Cat Marnell’s VICE column, Amphetamine Logic, has been conspicuously absent these past few weeks. No, Cat did not blow her lips off freebasing cocaine like Richard Pryor, and no, she will not be parting ways with...
Who Is Alan Roberts, the Director of 'Innocence of Muslims'? We Think His Real Name Is Robert Brownell
Early yesterday morning VICE was anonymously furnished with documents that link a California resident named Robert Brownell (aka Robert Brown)—to the pre-production of 'Innocence of Muslims.'
Road Trip Chaos: What Does Boston Think of Mitt Romney?
I trolled around the Boston with Newsweek/The Daily Beast correspondent Eli Lake and we met a drag queen who wouldn't "suck Mitt Romney's dick for all the money in the world."
My Friend Won ‘Wipeout,’ and Tonight He’s Back for Another Round
I caught up with my old friend Frank "The Tank/Freak of Nature" Beasely, who is basically a living, breathing killing machine. He famously walked through 'Wipeout's' $2 million obstacle course like he was on a stroll with his aunt or some shit. And...