Tag: Vice

“…these emails paint a portrait of a platform whose creators are fundamentally unable to track what goes on within it, and point to easily exploitable loopholes that scammers have steamed their way through by the truckload.”

On the fate of Deadspin, recent longreads on Airbnb and influencers, and the uncanny canon of Wakefield Press.

Oh by the way, Airbnb makes money on cancellations, too.

Black women take power where they can find it, and sometimes that’s in a pot of hot, skin-searing grits.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Natalie Kitroeff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Eve Peyser, Darius Miles, and Bill Wyman.

The pros and cons of building one’s brand on Twitter.

How one London man transformed his house into a work of art, and a physical love story to the people he’s lost.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jason Fagone, Joe Zadeh, Victoria Myers, Andrew Dickson, and Steve Almond.

How a successful YouTube celebrity barely leaves the house.

Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.

Eight stories and two bonus reads for Pride month.

The willful dismissal of our own humanity and common sense lies at the core of U.S. immigration policy.

This week we’re sharing stories by Jason Fagone, Betty Ann Adam, Christian H. Cooper, Clarissa Wei, and Robert Kolker.

Chinese writers can bring a lot more to the table when it comes to writing about Chinese food.

Vice’s Geraldine Malone walks the streets with group of volunteers dedicated to fighting overdoses.

At Vice, Eve Peyser belatedly embraces her Jewish identity after watching a rise in antisemitism ushered in by the new administration.

Eight must-read essays on how we cook and how we eat.

At Broadly, Gabby Bess — a writer who has depression — interviews life-long sufferer Daphne Merkin, and reviews Merkin’s new memoir, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression.

In this list, you’ll find stories about drag royalty, the price of the perfect Western wardrobe, the perils of butt glue, and more.

This Pride series continues with stories and interviews surrounding LGBTQ history in the United States.

These stories offer a glimpse into the weird world of “professionalism,” how young women are expected to adapt to rapidly changing, innately biased work environments.

Six stories about our relationships with our hair.

Over at Vice Sports, Aaron Gordon has a fascinating piece up about intellectual property rights and tattoos. He opens with the case of the NBA2K video game series, which is currently being sued by a tattoo artist agency over the games’ digitally recreated tattoos, which appear on the virtual bodies of players such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. But copyright issues […]

I don’t pretend to understand the intricacies of Syria’s politics or the motivations of ISIS completely. I read, share, and little by little, I learn.

A good bookmaker will set up odds so they appear enticing to both sides of a bet: if Arsenal plays Stoke in the Premier League, the bookies want an equal amount of action on both clubs, the better to spread risk. (This isn’t how they make money, however. They do that by designing the odds so […]

Over at Noisey, Lisa Mrock has written a wonderfully personal requiem for a short-lived TV channel called the International Music Feed. The music video-based television network in question only existed for three years (from 2005 to 2008), but it made quite an impact during its brief tenure: In an age where hardly anything is original, the International Music […]

Longreads to celebrate the vibrancy, history, and enduring presence of Deaf culture and its advocates.

“An artist gets it to a point where they’re already self sustainable and then labels swoop in and there’s going to come a point where these artists realize the reason why they’re swooping in and giving them all this money is because they can make ten times as much if they just keep doing what […]

Vice’s headquarters are a 30,000-square-foot amalgamation of converted warehouses in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—hipster capital of the US. [Vice co-founder Shane Smith], who was not made available for an interview with CJR despite repeated requests, has called his office of 425 workers “a sweatshop for trustafarians” and the culture “like an incestuous family.” The interior matches Vice’s style: gritty […]

Vice: Is there anything, just a taste, that you’d be able to share? Mobeen Azhar: Yeah—OK, I want to know how to put this diplomatically—let me put it like this: One big theme which comes across no matter whom you speak to, in terms of people who have dealt with Prince—everyone respects him hugely, but […]