When the New York Times editorial board issued its powerful condemnation of America’s gun culture, they went beyond mere outrage in response to the recent murder sprees in San Bernardino, California, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Times went so far as to suggest that “assault rifle”-style…

The name Martin Shkreli seems to ring wrong these days. As CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the Brooklyn native’s controversial decision to raise the price of vital AIDS medication, Daraprim from $13.50 per pill to a staggering $750 each has incited vitriol from across the internet and the real world.…

In 1993, LucasArts released Star Wars: X-Wing , a space flight simulator that let the player fly as part of the Rebel Alliance in missions focused on ambushing Imperial forces and gathering intelligence. The game received near universal critical acclaim for its authenticity as both a window into the…

Toyota Star Wars merchandise is, to put it politely, a robust category. Over the years, we've seen Jar Jar Binks Pepsi , a real AT-AT walker , and a C-3PO tape dispenser . But the rarest piece of Star Wars merchandise of all is something that no one's really seen for years : a custom-made, Star…

All numbers aside, the market just isn’t that huge 2015 will go down as the year that Apple, YouTube, and Jay Z all looked at the current music landscape and thought, “You know what the world needs? Another streaming service.” Now, none of these services are bad, in and of themselves. For all the…

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council voted unanimously to approve a bill allowing drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing apps to form unions. Council members voted 9-0 in favor of the ordinance, the first legislation of its kind in the country. The decision was greeted with cheers in a City…

Dear Spike Lee, Just cause you heard my Big Momma call me June-Bug or Poo doesn’t mean you get to. Most don’t honor the name Chi-raq here, but for the ones that do it’s their choice, our city. Yesterday, like the rest of Chicago (and America), I ran to the Internet to see the trailer for Chi-raq .…

One of the working titles for the group was the Reasonable Nutjob Caucus. Illustration by Matt Chase On July 28th, Mark Meadows, a Republican representative from North Carolina, walked to the well of the House and filed a motion to vacate the chair. It’s an obscure parliamentary tool that allows any…

My old neighborhood, and the block where my sister was shot 11 years ago. Eleven years ago– seven years after the murder of our brother –our sister nearly became a Chicago homicide statistic. She was out with friends at a neighborhood restaurant when someone in her crew got in an argument with…

Playmates Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn Drive off into the sunset with March 2015 Playmate Chelsie Aryn Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn FEATURED ARTICLES ICYMI: FEATURED ON PLAYBOY'S INSTAGRAM Previous Article Next Article PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH…

In Memoriam 1942 – 2013 “Roger Ebert loved movies.” RogerEbert.com Reviews Great Movies Chaz's Journal Blogs Far Flungers Channels Contributors Slender Man Nothing is scarier than bad filmmaking. Skate Kitchen A solid hangout movie as well as a band-of-buddies film. Other Reviews BlacKkKlansman A…

The “too much tuna” prank duo, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, take their act to Off Broadway in a new live show Photograph: Courtesy Luke Fontana By | Advertising Gil Faizon ( Nick Kroll ) and George St. Geegland ( John Mulaney ) stole the hearts of the nation—or at least Comedy Central viewers—with…

We live in an era of political news that is, all too often, shocking but not surprising. The rise of Donald Trump definitely falls into that category. And so does the electoral earthquake that struck France in Sunday’s regional elections , with the right-wing National Front winning more votes than…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking Monday during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, S.C.. (Mic Smith/AP) Somehow, someway, in the hours between Donald Trump issuing an utterly clear statement…

COP21 UN climate change conference in Paris. Whatever happens now, we will not be viewed kindly by succeeding generations.Photograph: Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster. Inside the narrow…

Fusion/Elena Scotti It was all so painfully awkward. That night, Brittany Ashley, a lesbian stoner in red lipstick, was at Eveleigh, a popular farm-to-table spot in West Hollywood. The restaurant was hosting Buzzfeed’s Golden Globes party. For the past two years, Ashley has been one of the most…

"Where's Doug Yule?" a DJ asked Lou Reed in 1972, during an interview with WLIR radio. There was a pregnant pause. Lou answered: "Dead, I hope." Most Velvet Underground fans have stopped short of wishing death upon Doug Yule, who played bass in the VU from late 1968 to the summer of 1970. But his…

The face was mine, perfectly crafted. It had my nose, my cheeks. It had the color of my eyes and the shape of them. The body, however, just wasn’t fat enough. This was my experience with the character creator in Saints Row 4. I’ve been obese since my depression started in high school, and once…

When is it acceptable to leave a friend to die? Invisible, Inc. , the fantastically named turn-based stealth game from Klei, is my standout strategy title of 2015 ( and one of VICE's top 20 games of the year ), and it has one main mission. It wants you to be decisive. Over the course of the game's…

Vanilla Bean Shortbread By Jeannette Ferrary 40 minutes easy Cod Baked With Prosciutto By Nigella Lawson 20 minutes easy Pasta With Anchovy Sauce By Nigella Lawson 30 minutes easy Blond Mocha Sauce By Nigella Lawson 15 minutes easy Spiced and Herbed Millet By Nigella Lawson 30 minutes easy Scallops…

Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s establishment are preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as businessman Donald Trump continues to sit atop the polls in the GOP presidential race. More than 20 of them convened Monday near the Capitol for a dinner held by…

A group of prominent Silicon Valley investors and technology companies said on Friday that they would establish an artificial-intelligence research center to develop “digital intelligence” that will benefit humanity. The investors — including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman — said they…

A woman walks past a map showing the elevation of the sea in the last 22 years during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 11, 2015. STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS The governments of 195 countries overcame decades of deep divisions to strike a watershed…

I’d learned to dread turning that corner. It was the first corner out of the gate from Magallanes Village, where my family’s house is, feeding into Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, the perpetually snarled main highway in Manila. Since heading back home to the Philippines over the Thanksgiving holiday,…

In election after election, generally (but not always) well before the voting starts, pundits start wondering about the possibility of a "brokered" party convention. For the casual observer, that term is meaningless — in part because casual observers are mostly not paying any attention to…

Alain Macklovitch is a rare breed of purist, unapologetic yet inviting to those who haven’t seen the light. The five-time DMC World Champion -- known to his fans as A-Trak -- has emerged as spokesperson of sorts for DJs who treat mixing as an art form rather than an afterthought. His soapbox efforts…

For the families of the striking fire fighters, Christmas 1977 was going to be a difficult one. With little or no money coming in, celebrations, presents, and even food were on ration. But something quite wonderful happened on that Christmas Day in Merrie England, when four of the country’s…

At 2:28 pm on August 28, 2003, a middle-aged pizza deliveryman named Brian Wells walked into a PNC Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania. He had a short cane in his right hand and a strange bulge under the collar of his T-shirt. Wells, 46 and balding, passed the teller a note. “Gather employees with access…

Could Finland become the first country in the world to introduce a universal basic income? It’s quite possible: The Finnish government likes the concept, and it’s putting serious resources behind a national experiment. Starting in 2017, up to 100,000 Finns could get up to 1,000 euros a month, in…

This year, Netflix finally crossed the threshold it had been building to since 2011: it became an honest-to-goodness television network. When the streaming service first stepped into the realm of original content, acquiring the high-profile prestige series House of Cards over HBO and AMC , the…

Justin Massler, a.k.a. Cloud Starchaser, believes that he is Harry Potter, Superman, and Jesus Christ. These narratives, he says, are all one and the same, various retellings of his life story populated by supporting characters that also exist in the modern world. He has explained this theory of the…

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LOS ANGELES — When Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” is released in a special roadshow version (with overture, intermission and additional footage) on Dec. 25, it will represent a feat worthy of the heist in the director’s “Jackie Brown.” The film is scheduled to open on 96 screens in the…

As the official teaser for Quentin Tarantino’s newest film The Hateful Eight concludes, Samuel L. Jackson uncorks one of his beautiful throaty laughs, an ornately mustachioed Kurt Russell cocks his old-timey shotgun, and amid a flurry of snow, the title splashes onto the screen. But for a small,…

O n Oct. 31, 1926, Charles Vance Millar, a well-known and wealthy Canadian lawyer, died at age 73. Halloween was a fitting day for him to go; Millar loved practical jokes and spent far too much time doing silly things like dropping dollar bills on the sidewalk and then hiding to see who would pick…

Images by Christopher Classens Deep in the bowels of YouTube lies a very standard definition video of Atlanta hip-hop artist Soulja Boy touring his home studio. Dressed in a baggy white T-shirt and yellow gold jewelry, the baby-faced rapper shows off a rinky-dink microphone, a small MIDI keyboard…

‘Not commenting on important issues is sometimes as much a political statement as a protest song is’ … Son LittlePhotograph: Jean-François Monier/AFP/Getty Images I don’t consider myself a protest singer or a “political” artist. My music is the way I express feelings about my interactions with the…

In 2015, Dictionary.com saw a number of themes emerge in the words that gained enough traction to be added to the dictionary along with words that trended in user lookups. The most prominent theme across both of these areas was in the expanding and increasingly fluid nature of conversations about…

1. I am six. My babysitter’s son, who is five but a whole head taller than me, likes to show me his penis. He does it when his mother isn’t looking. One time when I tell him not to, he holds me down and puts penis on my arm. I bite his shoulder, hard. He starts crying, pulls up his pants and runs…