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Brief Reviews of Every Movie I Saw in Theaters in 2012

Maybe American movies used to be better before they started trying to remake everything, or maybe I was just a little kid then and now I’m slightly more tired of it all. Whatever the case, here are some tiny shitface diatribes about the eight movies I...
Blake Butler
12.31.12
The Hopelessness Issue

Santa Daddy

She walked into the other room and came back holding up a Santa suit. And you bet your ass I put it on. I put it on like it was my bar mitzvah suit and we had to be at temple in five minutes.
Brett Gelman
12.31.12
Dogmageddon

Subtle Forces

The crazies of Hinduism aren't as in-your-face as, say, a suicide bomber or a Baptist minister calling for the end of Planned Parenthood. But they can certainly hold their own when it comes to mistreating women.
Rick Paulas
12.31.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

Bath Salts in the Wound

Few places were as primed for the plague of bath salts as the Southeast neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. Before long, buyers swarmed the tobacco stores that carried it. Salt users would show up at a retailer five or six times a day. The lines were...
Rob Fischer
12.31.12
Samsung GALAXY Camera "Life's A Photo"

Is Milan the Most Photogenic City?

Samsung meets Giacomo who loves to capture the spirit of Milan in his portraits, revealing the honesty and reality of life through the composition of light and dark.
VICE Staff
12.30.12
Motherboard Blog

The Internet Will Never Not Love UFO Videos

Have fun with this one.
Michael Byrne
12.30.12
WEEDIQUETTE

First-Timers in the Hindu Kush

When my uncle and two of his friends from college, Haroon and Kasem, decided to journey from village to village, the verdant slopes and jagged ridges of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province became the site of an epic, if not altogether safe...
T. Kid
12.30.12
News

The Rape in Delhi: Thousands Protest for Women's Safety in India

It might have been another horrific but hardly noticed violent crime in Delhi, dubbed the “rape capital” in media shorthand, but because of the seemingly safe neighborhood and the brutality of the crimes, the December 16th gang rape has become a...
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
12.30.12
Tech

The Kids Are Alright, Getting Less Fat

Forget the holiday gluttony: Kids across the US are slimming down. An encouraging new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that obesity rates among American children--particularly children from low-income families--have...
Austin Considine
12.29.12
Tech

Another Year on the Final Frontier

Will we find an Earth twin in 2013?
Amy Teitel
12.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Don't Worry, There Is No Torture in the Zero Dark Thirty Video Game

Making a documentary-like movie about a history that remains secret and that includes scenes of "immoral violence" is one challenge. But it may be in strange taste to turn it into a video game.
ALEX PASTERNACK
12.29.12
News

We Don’t Always Get the War We Want

It’s four in the morning on my 38th birthday, and I am staring up at the thatched roof of a small jungle clinic in Karen State of eastern Burma, the home of the world’s longest-running armed conflict—a 63-year civil war between the Burmese army and the...
Rob Swain
12.29.12
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