 DISABLING OPINIONSFrom South Park to Howard SternWhen Vice first brought up the idea of doing a "special issue" featuring some of my friends with disabilities I was a little hesitant. While I've enjoyed VICE and its confrontational style, I wasn't sure how it would go down. It's something I've dealt with a lot in the past few years. Where do you d... | |
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  BEATS AND RHYMESFRITZ LE CHAT'S 5TH ANNUAL RAP AWARDS
SHIT THAT RULED IN 2002
Neptunes/N.E.R.D., Devin the Dude's album finally came out, Swollen Members and Moka Only blowing the fuck up, Buck 65 signed to Warner (!!), gangsta rap, Nelly (so many haters!), Linkin Park dropping a remix album wi... | |
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 DOCTOR DOCTORSoap Opera Expert Ronnie Simonsen Gets Down With General Hospital's Brightest StarThis is Ronnie Simonsen reporting for VICE. I like General Hospital's Leslie Charleson because she plays a doctor. She plays a cardiac surgeon. I've been following her career since 1977. I belong to her fan club and I get personal letters from her and I really admire her work as an actress and I rea... | |
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 BY DESIGNFriends, I'm about to reveal something that may frighten and scare you: the Japanese are waaay ahead of us. Sacrificing height for a fourteen-hour advantage over NYC, the zippy little people in the east are engaged in a battle for freshness we can't even dream of competing with. Having laid waste to... | |
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 HARD ONLong Live Tujiko Noriko's Beaming JoyFinally there's someone who isn't afraid to let her happy thoughts spill out like crayon-drawn smiley suns and flowers. Tujiko Noriko is a musician who drops the rock star front and just lets her heart pour out.... | |
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 DEAR DIARYEntry: January 1995January 1995
Dear Diary,
Last night was Maskarave. It started out really good because the music was so phat and me and Jolene got microdots. I saw Marlene and was happy. We talked about good things like boys and poetry and I just miss and love her a lot. Then I did some K and about ... | |
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 HISTORY IS BULLSHITScene Creamers Write Their OwnIan Svenonius is the only DC punk rock luminary who, in conversation, sounds like a lost Theodor Adorno book that rips apart contemporary culture and makes you laugh at the same time. They both say things like "approximating historical antecedents" instead of "ripping off Lou Reed" and "trope of roc... | |
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCEThe Infadels, The Rakes, The Beastie Boys, Kraftwerk, Hot Chip, Pascal Arbez, Daft Punk, Kitsuné, Joakim, Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Chip, DJ Assault, Volga Select, Personal Computer, Dieter Schmidt... | |
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 HOW'S YOUR ATTITUDE?Sue Harrington Makes Her Corrections AccordinglyGood day Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Susan Harrington. I am a 36-year-old woman who was born with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia. This basically means that I have nerve damage in my eyes. What I have not yet told you is that at birth I was unfortunately diagnosed as being legally blind. What I am extre... | |
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 THE MAYOR OF TELEVISIONThe Ins and Outs of My Son LarryWe first knew that Larry had a disability pretty early, maybe when was just 7 or 8 months old. When he couldn't get up by himself, I knew something was wrong.
Of course, they tell you about all these different doctors that can save him: This one's good for this, that one's good for that, so... | |
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 GAMESUnreal Tournament 2003, ShinobiUnreal Tournament 2003
Publisher: Atari GamesDeveloper: Digital ExtremesPlatform: PCGenre: First-person shooterRating: M (Mature)
Back at the end of '99 two games reigned supreme as top contenders in the online first-person shooter genre: Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. Both game... | |
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 MERDE!The Wheelchair Underneath This PaintingStephan Blanquet is a gimp from France who is fat as hell and has an incredibly hot girlfriend. He's also the best cartoonist in the world. He's so prolific, in fact, that you feel like an asshole calling him a cartoonist. He's more of a sequential painter. Or maybe a graphic writer. One thing he is... | |
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 LITERARYCharley Magazine, A New Deal for New YorkCharley Magazine
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan is most likely our favorite artist. He's funny, smart, and an expert at taking the piss. He's also Italian, constantly smirking, and when he says "hi" to you when you're DJing he spends five full minutes freaking out... | |
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 MY WARCP Thinks That It's My Friend But It's One of ThemSince my debut in the world 48 years ago, spasticity and involuntary movements due to cerebral palsy have been the dictators of my body. These twin Saddams constantly fight for control of my legs, arms, and throat muscles, creating a never-ending battle that forbids me from walking, properly using m... | |
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 MY WAYDJ Hell Hasn't Slowed Down (But He Wants To)The best part about interviewing DJ Hell late last year wasn't the interview in a fancy Munich restaurant where everyone worshipped the dapper Gigolo primo. No. The bestest part, the thing that summed up Hell before we'd even met, was being picked up at the airport by his assistant Claudia, who drov... | |
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 SKINEMA"Hey, baby. You want to wrestle?" That's been my pick-up line for years, and it totally works. ... | |
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 PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE50 Cent Takes on 30 RappersWe at Vice are taking full credit for 50 Cent getting signed to Eminem's Shady Records. In '99, the song ?How To Rob An Industry Nigga? came out, with 50 Cent namedropping over 30 rappers with shit like, ?I rob Pun without a gun, snatch his piece and run/This nigga weigh 400 pounds, how's he gonna c... | |
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 TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v9n111 SAMBO'S
Most Quebecois don't know this but Denny's used to be called Sambo's. Motherfucking Sambo's. America went nuts when they figured it out and banned them all; all but one. That is why the person in the passenger seat screamed "holy SHIT!" when we almost drove by it in Santa Barbara, Cal... | |
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 REIGN IN HELLHate Eternal Won't Serve in HeavenDeath metal is back. Where the fuck did it go? ?It never went anywhere,? shrugs Hate Eternal's Jared Anderson. ?It's angry music, and it belongs where it is. This way it stays pure. Purity is very important.? No shit. Serious aficionados of the game constantly refer to ?pure? and ?true? death metal,... | |
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 RONNY AND METhe Special Olympics of ComedyRonny Weintraub is this 41-year-old retarded guy who I always see at my shows at Caroline's Comedy Club. He's a kind of fixture there. In their minds, he's a retarded adult who they tolerate and allow to watch the shows as long as he behaves himself. In his mind, he is a big time, hot-shit manager w... | |
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 UYA UYA A BUYAThe Ups and Downs of My Son BobbyWhen my son Bobby was born in 1954, they didn't tell me he was a Down's Syndrome. I didn't know until about a year later. He got measles and had to go back into the hospital. The doctor said to me, "I didn't think you'd even take him home," but I did take him home, and he's still here today.
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 WHO CARES?The Totally Retarded Use of the Word RetardThere's a difficulty in writing about retarded people that stems from the word itself. The word retarded, while being technically correct, still feels a little awkward and has an unintended harshness attached to it. But shortening retarded to retard is no solution. It's akin to the use of the word n... | |
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 SOCIAL SUICIDEPatrick Wolf Moves to Zombie CityPatrick Wolf is a special little boy on a special musical mission. He sings sweet songs and wears special clothes and plays magical homemade instruments and knows a lot about electronics and lives in a ramshackle little cottage down by the marsh's edge. Some people say it's haunted. To inherit an ol... | |
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 VICE FASHION - THE SPECIAL ISSUEJeremy Vest, 18, from Maryland is the newest and youngest member of the How's Your News? team. A multi-instrumentalist and avid music fan, he was brought in to play drums in the HYN band but his charm and fearless interviewing technique have made him a permanent fixture in the team. We caught up wit... | |
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 SORRY GUYSMidnight Movies' Special Photo DemandsMidnight Movies look like a Calvin Klein perfume ad, like if Simon Cowell designed a special ultimate post-rock group for your dad so he can relate to you more.
They even have a singing drummer, Gena Olivier, a slender girl who sounds like Nico or Laetitia from Stereolab.... | |
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 GRIMEWATCHYou know when Madrid put Michael Owen on the bench earlier in the season, (sorry to anyone reading this who doesn't like footy or is a girl) then he didn't throw any kind of tantrum and took it on the chin?... | |
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 SHORT HAIRED WIMPSWolfmother's A Special CaseWolfmother are three skinny indie-looking puffs from Australia who look like they can't handle their ale and only get erections every five days, and then only after taking ten Viagra, a bottle of poppers and listening to Kylie Minogue and Erasure while pissed on Lambrini.... | |
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 WTFIs "The Special Issue"?The best film that Ben Affleck ever starred in didn't even make the newspapers. It was a documentary made last year by a group of people with disabilities who all work together as part of a news team called How's Your News?. The film On The Campaign Trail, follows the team as they report on the Repu... | |
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