Volume 18 Issue 6
High School Ripper
Three years ago, 13-year-old Skylar Kaplan and her older sister, Piper, formed Puro Instinct. They began writing songs that were ghostly and girly and gooey and guiltless and full of gusto and all other good descriptors that start
Genocidal Graffiti
In July 1995, Serb forces overtook the town of Srebrenica, Bosnia, and killed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims. It was the most horrific instance of mass murder in Europe since the end of World War II.
Hiding the Horror
It was only a few years ago that I came to appreciate the severity of my own arachnophobia. Although I could tolerate tiny spiders, anything larger than an average-size black widow activated instant terror.
Enter the Dragon
Bad Dragon is a company that designs and manufactures fantasy adult toys in the most literal sense imaginable: giant sea monster cocks, scaly dragon-vagina Fleshlights, and neon orca penises that ejaculate mock cum, to name a few.
Trinkets of Terror
It’s a well-known fact that VICE favorite Martin Parr is one of Britain’s finest photographers. But few people are aware that he is also an avid collector of tacky memorabilia inspired by terrorists, dictators, and other nefarious...
Serbia Needs Women
The breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia hit Serbia a little hard.