The Talking Issue
An Interview With My Coke Dealer
We've all got dealers we like to call "our guys," but aside from their numbers, general delivery hours, and where they usually are at 1:30 AM Saturday morning, how much do we really know about them?
Mike Leigh
I’ve been watching Mike Leigh’s movies for almost 20 years and every time I see a new one I have a fantasy conversation with him afterward.
A Young Man Who Was A Member of A Paramilitary Gang...
The Brits may have left Northern Ireland and the IRA may be all but completely decommissioned, but Loyalist areas of Belfast are still firmly in the grip of paramilitary thugs.
A Puppet Master
Here’s what you do: You eat yourself some mushrooms and then you go on down to the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in downtown LA and have yourself a magical little experience.
Terry Jones
You probably think of Monty Python as a symbol of the sad, forced eccentricity your uptight gay British dad used to display when he was in a cheery mood or when he was drunk on schnapps.
A Sperm Donor Who Has 46 Kids
My friend's lesbian sister became pregnant a while ago. She found her sperm donor through one of several Dutch websites where women who want kids and guys who will donate sperm contact each other.
Charles Maggio From Rorschach
We thought it might be interesting to talk to Charles Maggio, head yeller of seminal hardcore punks Rorschach, since, you know, their brutal melding of hardcore and metal pretty much altered the trajectory of punk music in America and all that jazz.
Vice Fashion - Pen Pals
Eydie McConnell and Lewis Chaplin are two 16-year-olds who happened across each other’s photos on Flickr.
Employee Of The Month - A Guy Who Works at Our Printing Press
We've always wondered about the guys that print Vice. Up until now, all we really knew was that they're in a great big room somewhere in the frozen wasteland of Canada and that every 30 days or so, they ship us lots and lots of magazines.