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Check Out the Most Recent Crop of VICE Documentaries
VICE News explores sex work in Japan, Noisey documents an up-and-coming rapper in Tel Aviv, and Motherboard investigates an aging, hazardous oil pipeline in Michigan. This is a guide to where we've been and where we're going.
August's Best and Worst Albums
Royal Headache rules, Hot Chip reminds us that British white dudes can't dance, and the new Mac Demarco mini-LP inspired a hallucinatory experience involving characters from "The X-Files."
Photos of Small Town Life in Catskill, New York
You learn to love and hate it all at once—always wanting to leave, always coming back, longing for the day you drop everything and go for good.
'Shrink': Fiction by Tim Parks
Tim Parks is the author of 16 novels, a short story collection, and multiple essay collections. This is his first short story for VICE.
Bowling Alleys Are American Pockets of Purgatory
It's a sport/game/leisure activity so simple that I always feel vaguely self-conscious actually explaining it out loud: "Well, you, um, try to knock down pins with a ball."
The Polar Extremes of Communities Behind California's 'Redwood Curtain'
Underneath the grandeur of nature, the struggles of small-town life are found.
Artist Marilyn Minter on Her First Retrospective, Anti-Censorship, and Pubes
We caught up with the inimitable painter about her impending retrospective, which she says is "about the overlooked."
Getting Drunk on Tea Infusions with Montreal’s Underground Connoisseurs
A select group of tea collectors are known to gather in Montreal's best tea shop for an invite-only event called "After Hours." Guests bring their most prized tea and, under the guise of camaraderie, hope to be pummeled into herbal enlightenment.
Why Isn’t a Revolutionary HIV Medication Getting to Sex Workers?
Thanks to widespread stigma and cultural incompetency within the health-care system, Truvada is not reaching the people who may need it most.
Endless Summer Numbers
Here are a bunch of stats to remind you what summer is in case you've been stuck in the office since May.
New Zealand Made Trolling Illegal Last Month
Revenge pornographers and 4chan racists better watch out.
Azerbaijan Is Trying to Attract Tourism with Its Crude Oil Spas
While getting your crude oil all over the place is usually frowned upon, there's one town in Azerbaijan that's tied its fortune to dunking tourists in the stuff.