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Remembering Brutalism: the Myspace Literary Movement that Everyone Hated
The Brutalists didn't burn actual books, it's a metaphor. Photo via Flickr user LearningLark.This article originally appeared on VICE UKFor a few heady months in 2006, it felt like MySpace was going...
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Why 'Mr. Robot' Is One of TV's Best Shows
This past Monday night, every major social media platform you can think of was hacked—kind of. Smack dab in the middle of a Facebook Live Q&A with the creators of USA's buzzy hacker thriller Mr....
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Why 'OJ: Made in America' Is the Best Documentary You'll See This Year
All photos by Mickey Osterreicher/ESPNThis article originally appeared on VICE UKIt's a story so absurd that, more than 20 years later, it still doesn't seem real. OJ Simpson, sitting in prison for 33...
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The Surprising Number of Middle-Aged White Men Who Think About Faking Their...
The following is an excerpt from Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud. The new book by Elizabeth Greenwood examines what it's like to fake your own death, the cottage industry...
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How Tupac and Biggie Went from Friends to Deadly Rivals
Image by Lia Kantrowitz for VICE.The following is excerpted from Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap by Ben Westhoff,...
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Fake Two-Week Tattoos Are the Future of Dumbass Self Expression
Love you JT. Photos via Tagwa Moyo.This article originally appeared on VICE Canada.I often look at people with questionable looking or questionably-placed tattoos and think, You're going to regret that...
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How ‘Black Mirror’ Went from Being a Clever Show to a Televised Thinkpiece
A still from 'Black Mirror' series three episode, "Nosedive" (Photo by David Dettmann/Netflix)This article originally appeared on VICE UKIn a year that's felt like a slow-burning trash pile, Black...
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How to Taste, Smell, and Touch a Piece of Music with Your Skin
This article originally appeared on VICE UKIt's Saturday evening in an east London cinema and Jonathan Ross is curled up on a bean bag, sketching on a notepad, and vaping. He looks remarkably relaxed...
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The Lonely Dudes Using 'Magick' to Get Laid
This article originally appeared on VICE CanadaIt wasn't until after she had eaten the Alfredo that her boyfriend told her that he'd put his semen in the sauce.But it wasn't until later, when she was...
View ArticleWhat I Did When My Daughter Asked to be Circumcised
This article originally appeared on VICE Indonesia"Mom, I wanna join a mass circumcision!"If this sentence came out of my five-year-old boy's mouth—whom I call Cah Ganteng (Handsome Kid)—I would've...
View ArticleSmoking Weed Was the Only Thing That Made 2016 Bearable
2016 was a year stalked by death—of musical legends, of athletes and astronauts, of whatever shred of decency our political system had left. Whatever way the world is heading, it seems like the wrong...
View ArticleThe History of the Weirdest, Queerest Strip Mall in Vegas
A half-century ago, when a vast new shopping center debuted a mile east of the Las Vegas Strip, anyone who mattered came by. As its business owners will tell you, Frank, Sammy and Dino could be found...
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The Best Music, Movies and Television of 2016
This article is part of our VICE Weekends summer series, presented by Weis Hoo boy! 365 days filled with songs, movies, and a lot of binge-worthy television. Some of it very good, some of it...
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The 22 Best Books I Read in 2016
I read less this year than I have in almost 15 years—less than I did in 2014, 2013, 2012 (when I read 135 books), and every other year since I was still in college. From what I'm told, this is true of...
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¿Qué pasó al fin con los chirris del Bronx?
¿Se acuerdan de los chirris del Bronx? Porque entre la última semana de mayo y la primera de septiembre de este año Bogotá y buena parte del país siguieron atentamente la peregrinación de un grupo de...
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The Anarchist Squatters Housing Manchester’s Most Vulnerable Homeless People
This post originally appeared on VICE UKA long-abandoned Pizza Express was the latest empty property taken over by squatters known as the Manchester Activist Network (MAN). The group had opened the...
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Czego się dowiedziałem, oglądając świąteczną telewizję przez całą dobę
Umieranie tradycyjnego oglądania telewizji jest faktem. Nawet raport UKE z 2015 r. telewizję sprowadza do byle dodatku do internetu i telefonii, nic nie znaczącego detalu usług telekomunikacyjnych....
View ArticleWhat It Is About Authoritarianism That's Drawn So Many People in
There's a fascist in every one of us. Yeah, you too. At least that's the thrust of an argument first made in the 1930s by an Austrian psychoanalyst who studied under Freud, developed theories on...
View ArticleThe Polls Weren't the Problem – We Were
"This article is so fucking idiotic and irresponsible." That's how polling guru Nate Silver began 14 tweets of maths-based rage directed at Huffington Post journalist Ryan Grim in early November, on...
View ArticleMUNCHIES Asked Andrew WK About His Partying Diet and Things Got Deep
If you're like us, you probably owe the first wave of your most brutal hangovers to partying as hard as Andrew WK did in his music videos in the 2000s—bloody face and all. The man is a party god, and...
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