The author (far left) having a drink It’s funny that we all “have a relationship” with alcohol. It’s maybe the only thing we consume that we feel the need to directly relate to the rest of our lives. I’ve never heard anyone open up about...
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This year was the 50th anniversary of the Notting Hill Carnival, which was as rowdy and crowded and colorful as ever. There was all the usual fun stuff—people squirting chocolate sauce everywhere, the obligatory dancing police officer, rich kids dabbing a lot and being excruciatingly...
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Photo courtesy of Madeline Whitehead Two weeks ago, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad was released with the blessing of Oprah Winfrey’s semi-dormant Book Club—and those familiar with the author’s work couldn’t help but chuckle at the occurrence. A well-regarded ironist with a bleak comic outlook...
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Photos of Jesse Martinez by Dan Levy Dogtown and Zephyr may have sparked the skate scene in Venice Beach, but it was the unruly Venice locals, headed by Jesse Martinez, who doused it in gasoline to see how high the flames would go. Born in...
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Get the VICE App on iOS and Android Indy Neidell is really excited to cover the Centrocaspian Dictatorship. It was a rebellious, unstable state that popped up in Eastern Europe during the constant reshuffling of World War I, a nonviolent coup d’etat between Russian socialist...
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This story appeared in the August issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe. Acclaimed photographer and video artist Gillian Wearing shot to fame in the 1990s for a series of portraits of strangers, each holding a sign with their innermost thoughts written on it....
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Gene Wilder, the acting legend most famous for his 1971 role as the title character in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, has died due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease at 83, his family confirmed on Monday. Wilder wasn’t a prolific actor, appearing in only...
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This story appeared in the August issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe. Keren Shavit, an Israeli mixed-media artist and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn, based this portfolio on a collection of her personal letters and writings, as well as archival materials...
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Get the VICE App on iOS and Android. Brandon S Blackmore listened carefully. He had to hear past the hissing sound in the recording, and the panting. One voice on the recording was unmistakable, though—the soft, monotone tenor of Warren Jeffs, the deranged leader of...
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Bernie Sanders during this year’s Democratic National Convention. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) In his June non-concession concession speech, before grimacing in support of Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention, Bernie Sanders called on his followers to take their “political revolution” to state and...
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