1994
The King Of Rave Graphics
If you’ve been to a dance party in the last four years, there’s a good chance you got the directions to the decrepit warehouse in the Western suburbs from one of Troy Innocent’s flyers.
Move Over Cindy Crawford
Of course you recognize Jenny Shimizu from Steven Meisel’s ubiquitous new Calvin Klein CK One perfume ads that are covering magazines and billboards around the world.
Things Fall Apartheid
South Africa’s first apartheid-free presidential election is finally here, and to punctuate just how important this shit is, citizens have started a civil war so they can kill one another in its honor.
Date-rape Me, My Friend
This is a touchy subject, I know. Largely because everybody seems to think that at some point they have been given an adulterated drug.
Preppy In Pink
If you are a young female person in New York in 1994 and you are not wearing X-Girl, you are not cool. Does that hurt your feelings?
Music Reviews
Two albums from the Melvins in the same year. What have we done to deserve this blessing? Or is it?
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
Eight years ago, when Elizabeth Wurtzel began writing her memoir about being depressed at Harvard University, she wasn’t trying to be the poster child for glumness in America. But in the few months since her book has been out, that’s...
Scene Report
Hey everyone reading Vice. I’m excited I get to do a column this issue. I still think Vice is kind of a Big Brother rip-off but beggars can’t be choosers.
It’s Called The Internet
If you’re among the lucky 25 percent of Americans who own a PC in 1994, chances are you’ve graduated from futzing with crude drawings of human and animal genitals in Microsoft Paint.