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JAPAN - COMMUNISM'S PORNOGRAPHIC STRONGHOLD

VICE Staff
6.2.09
Travel

Communism's Pornographic Stronghold

The Watarase Keikoku railroad claims to end in the tiny mountain village town of Mato, but that’s a lie.
ALEX HOBAN
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Vice Fashion - Pill Poppers

Photos by Ed Zipco
Ed Zipco
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

If the worldwide financial crisis is a 195-car pileup caused by a bunch of manicured dicks in bespoke suits driving around drunk while rifling through a dossier of cooked-up financial portfolios, then pawnshops are the hospitals where the innocent...
Ellis Jones
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

The Eyes Have It

Photographer Aaron Huey recently traveled to the Islamic nation of Yemen. While there, he had the chance to photograph and chat with some young Yemeni women who wear the traditional Islamic niqab or burka.
Aaron Huey
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

Berlin is poor and filthy, and nearly everyone lives on welfare. When the state assistance dries up, the whole city runs to the one pawnshop chain that operates a virtual monopoly on hocked goods.
FELIX NICKLAS, ADEMIR CORREA
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

Located in the heart of Le Marais, the poshest gay area in all of France, Crédit Municipal is the closet thing to a Parisian pawnshop you can find. It’s run by the city because private pawnbrokering is illegal.
LOÏC H. RECHI, SERENA PEZZATO
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

This is how the glorified pawnshop works, according to José Luis Arregín, the broker: Money-strapped clients hock their stuff for half its value in cash.
ZARATUSTRA VÁZQUEZ, LANDER DEWEER
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Conquest Of The Useless

In 1979, Werner Herzog approached 20th Century Fox to fund a movie, based on a true story, about an overzealous rubber baron who wishes to stage an opera in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon.
Werner Herzog
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Bearded, Bald, And Belgian

As part of the Antwerp Six, designer Walter Van Beirendonck stood out as the color-happy alternative to understated co-members Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten. Today Walt is the super-gay god-daddy to Bernhard Willhelm and all those kids at
Elin Unnes
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

War Is Hell, And Hell Sucks

It’s about as clichéd to call a war book “harrowing” as it is to call a movie about a handicapped guy overcoming the odds a “triumph,” but I’ll be damned if this book didn’t harrow me out big-time.
Jesse Pearson, BARRON STOREY
6.2.09
The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Borderline Bigots

Each year hundreds of thousands of optimistic South and Central Americans travel north to see whether things might be less crappy for them in the United States. The problem is they have to cross Mexico to get there.
LUIS AGUILAR
6.2.09
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