Volume 13 Issue 12
Looking For Diamonds In War-Torn Central Africa
Amid civil unrest, the Central African Republic's diamond trade is failing to help the national economy or its people
Reading With Polythene Sheets
These New Puritans are four gaunt, well-spoken 19-year-olds who've been clumped into the imaginary "Southend Scene" (one club night is not a scene) with bands like The Horrors and Wretched Replica (who have now split up) but sound nothing like either
Tomorrow, The World
Kids do their rites of passage stuff at a much younger age these days. We're not just talking about things like smoking crack or stabbing strangers for their MP3 player (although that does account for 98 per cent of it). If you've been down to
Two Really Short Stories
IN MEMORY Jenny went to the pool to pick up her mother who was very excited and the first thing she said was, “I just swam with a dead guy!” It was at a pool in Frankfurt where mostly
Records
JAY-Z Kingdom Come So the scoop is Jay-Z comes out of his pseudoretirement and makes an album that’s, well, not good. Now not good by Hov standards means you still get stellar lyricism here
Nakedness
He thinks: She sees him through the kitchen window taking off his clothes to put in the washer. It's night, past 12; his wife's in bed, going to sleep. Their young neighbor, who lives by herself since she got divorced a year ago, shares a driveway with...
"gjennom Nattens Identitet" ("through The Identity Of The Nighttime")
This is an excerpt from the book Nasjonalsatanisten (The National Satanist by Erlend Erichsen, translated for Vice. Erichsen is from Bergen and has played drums for a bunch
A Cartoon By David Mamet
PASSOVER - THE BLIND GUY AND THE MATZOH Vice: So what's this, you're a comic now? What's the joke here? Mamet [by email]: A new Passover tradition... Hardee har. Seriously, do you think that is funny?
Tidbits
DRINKING BOARD GAME If you're going to release a board game you might as well spend more than ten minutes putting it together. The squares on this game say things like "Someone insults you-
His & Hers Watches
He called into a local radio station upward of 60 times in January of 1989. Provided a series of correct answers that surpassed the other callers' series of answers and advanced southward to the state capital for the semi-finals. One night at a Holiday...