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VICE Guide to Austin

Regional Enticements
If you’re a fan of underground music history, wander by the Ritz Theater and imagine Black Flag, the Misfits, Minor Threat, Bad Brains all tearing across its rundown stage in a time before the street was filled with carnival barkers and tattooed...
VICE Staff
3.21.01
VICE Guide to Austin

Randy "Biscuit" Turner
Our old friend Biscuit passed away last year. He was a better person in ten minutes than most are in a lifetime and he remains a hero to anyone who knows anything about Austin. Now go start your own band.
VICE Staff
3.21.01
VICE Guide to Austin

Hunting and Scavenging
We’ve portrayed a variety of Austin characters and their sorted Southern predilections. Use the clues in the guide to help track down and identify representative examples.
VICE Staff
3.21.01
VICE Guide to Austin

Eats
There is no reason to eat anything but Mexican and/or BBQ when you are in Austin. If you are a vegetarian, your life is screwed no matter where you are, so no need to address that handicap here.
VICE Staff
3.21.01
VICE Guide to Austin

Battle of the Barnyard Fools
Recently these two South Austin yard critters raised a shitstorm of controversy with local authorities. Things got so bad between the gringo owner of the pig and the Mexican owner of the goat that lines were drawn and blows were exchanged.
VICE Staff
3.21.01
VICE Guide to Vancouver

DOs and DONTs
One great thing about the West Coast is the sheer hangoutability of the place. Taking a picture of your buddy wearing a huge pair of pants is considered having done something that day and it means you can go back inside and drink another six-pack in...
VICE Staff
3.19.01
VICE Guide to Vancouver

Barely Legal Aliens
Take a stroll down Robson or Seymour Street at any given time and you’re bound to stumble into a disoriented foreign student looking to make friends with a “real” Canadian. A lot of these students are seriously homesick and disappointed with their...
Edmund Simplex
3.15.01
VICE Guide to Vancouver

Down and Out in Vancouver
How many places do you know of with a government-sanctioned shooting gallery, where you can do massive whacks of cocaine and/or heroin without fear of prosecution or harassment? How about an otherwise pleasant outdoor marketplace where drugs are...
Chris Walter
3.15.01
VICE Guide to Vancouver

Getting Wasted on the Cheap
When you’ve only got $20 and you refuse to just pick up a couple eight-packs of pilsner to slam back alone on a bench in the rain, it’s time to head for East Van (or at least Mid).
Dave Bertrand
3.15.01
VICE Guide to Vancouver

Guide to Vancouver's Live Music Scene
The days when bands like DOA and the Subhumans made Vancouver a major player in North America's underground music scene may have already slipped into the past, but a new generation of artists has cropped up in recent years, threatening to push the city...
Michael Mann and Bradley Damsgaard
3.15.01
VICE Guide to Vancouver

Riottown
At any given moment a riot can break out in Vancouver. Michael Barnholden wrote a 112-page book about it recently called 'Reading the Riot Act,' but like anyone who's spent too much time in school, he keeps trying to explain everything in terms of...
Michael Mann
3.15.01
VICE Guide to Vancouver

Guide to the Strip Clubs of Vancouver
Remember in Twin Peaks how the guys are always ducking out across the border to go to that big Canadian brothel? Vancouver is kind of like the city-version of that place: A near-enough respite from the asinine prudishness of the Northwest U.S.'s...
Cowboy Texass
3.15.01
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