Fringes: Stories from the Edge
Mr. Hálek's Fungus
Václav Hálek is the world's most prolific composer of mushroom songs. As in the songs they sing to him. The mushrooms. Because God asked them to.
UFO Welcome Center
Jody Pendarvis is a kooky southern gentleman who has built a ramshackle UFO welcome center in his backyard in rural Bowman, South Carolina. If aliens happen to land around Bowman, they'll be greeted by Jody, who claims he'll be able to talk to them...
Teenage Exorcists
Sick of taking responsibility for the shitty things that have happened to you in your life? Help is on the way, in the form of three Bible-thumping teenage exorcists who claim to be able to exorcise people's "sexually transmitted demons." Here is the...
Teenage Exorcists
Sick of taking responsibility for the shitty things that have happened to you in your life? Help is on the way, in the form of three Bible-thumping teenage exorcists who claim to be able to exorcise people's "sexually transmitted demons."
Portrait of a Russian Oligarch
After the collapse of Communism in Russia, as state assets were divvied up and privatized, a few individuals stepped in to take the reins of this entrepreneurial experiment. Rewarded with massive fortunes and fame, they came to be known as "the...
Et portræt af en stenrig russisk 'Oligark'
Vi besøgte den stenrige forretningsmand Sergey Veremeenko på hans private ejendom uden for Moskva.
Cowboy Capitalists
In 2012, entrepreneur Ian Cox nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless...
Cowboy Capitalists
In 2012, entrepreneur Ian Cox nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless...
Cowboy Capitalists
In 2012, entrepreneur Ian Cox nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless...
Cowboy Capitalists
For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list.
Deportee Purgatory
A camera crew from VICE Mexico recently went to El Bordo, a makeshift shantytown near Tijuana where many Mexican immigrants deported from the US have gathered in hopes of finding temporary refuge.
The Warrior State
Guerrero is one of the poorest states in Mexico and the site of some of the worst violence in the battle between the drug cartels and Mexican authorities. As a result of the violence, hundreds of civilians have armed themselves with machetes, rifles...