It’s the year of our Lord 2025, and the world famous VICE magazine is back. To celebrate, VICE host Taji Ameen (@tajcam ) flew in from his home in Puerto Rico and took it out onto the streets of New York City, where it encountered grateful people, happy people, angry people, conspiracy people, and a whole lot of rude people.
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No matter where they go, the Roma have a hard time making friends. For centuries, the French assumed they were Czech, the Eastern Europeans thought they were from the Great Steppe, and the Western Europeans called them Egyptians. The Soviets treated them like criminals and the Nazis accused them of witchcraft. This uncertainty and suspicion bred thousands of years of hostility and persecution, which manifested itself in measures ranging from sedentarization to state child-seizure to death camps. Photographer Andrew Miksys (@andrewmiksys ) has spent the last quarter of a century taking portraits of the young Roma population in Lithuania, as they attempt to go about their daily lives—falling in love, attending discos, wearing excellent leather jackets—without letting the weight of all that history bog them down.
Though challenging at first, Miksys gradually pulled together the candid shots that make up his book, BAXT. The photographer’s own grandparents fled Lithuania at the outbreak of World War II. Now, he has returned from Seattle to live with the people in his portraits, fighting against attempts by the authorities to airbrush the Roma from Lithuanian history.
Find all the photographs and read the full story by Kevin Lee Kharas (@kevinleekharas ) in The Not The Photo Issue, available now from VICE.com or in select stores internationally. If you want to save yourself some hassle, you can subscribe to receive four issues of VICE magazine in the mail each year.
A decade of being the biggest wreck-heads in the rave has begun to take its toll on Polly and Sophie, the UK rave scene’s most infamous twin sisters. @joe_magowan 's intimate documentary follows @mybadsister as they embark on a new journey of sobriety while tackling intense sibling rivalry. Tap the @VICE link in bio to watch.
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Join us next week on a tour to celebrate the launch of “The Not The Photo Issue”. Come and meet some of the people who make the magic happen and get your hands on a free copy of the magazine at the following events:
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Manchester 28th April @villagebooks.co are hosting us from 6pm–9pm at their store. Join us and @jake_hanrahan from @awaydays.tv , we will be screening “Thirteen Sector” and “Xplosion” at 7pm
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Paris 29th April The legendary @pigallecountryclub and @jb_chiara___ are hosting us for a party from 8pm til 3am. Join us for drinking, dancing and free copies of the magazine
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Berlin 30th April @firmamentberlin are hosting us for free drinks and magazines, then afters at @8mmbar
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Berlin 1st May: We are going to drop a geotag and ride the U-Bahn round in circles until all our remaining magazines get taken. Catch us if you can
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Moltbook 25th April: A party for AI agents only on /vice-magazine with free LLM hallucinogens by Pharmaicy and afters at Doomscroll.bot hosted by @caiahagel , experience powered by RELiK
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Here's your weekly RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. Featuring Justin Bieber’s Coachella set, sauna raves, and the Geese psyop. Devour the best and worst of the internet like a Golden Retriever with a hot dog at the link in our bio.
On Easter Sunday, more than 100 riot police violently shut down a free party in Lulworth. Officers with batons, shields, and dogs confronted ravers at the annual tekival EggTek, which, this year, took place on Military of Defence land near a firing range.
Organizers and attendees say the police used "unethical" force. One viral video showed a man being repeatedly bludgeoned in the head, suffering at least one hit while he was being held down by three officers. Meanwhile, Dorset Police claim their officers “came under attack from missiles and faced a violent and hostile reception.” (“Missiles,” in this case, meaning plastic bottles.)
VICE spoke to the thrillseekers who were at the unlicensed and ultimately blood-soaked bank holiday event to find out what actually happened. Read the full story by @matthabusby on VICE.com.
Photos by dzntek and @fujitve
RATED AND SLATED is back, bringing you all the fantastic crap and ephemera the internet has to offer this week, compiled as ever by so-called “slopagandist” @yungtolstoi . Find it at VICE.com.
“It’s a practice devoted to crashing cars… hard.”
This is how photographer @maxpigott describes banger racing, an unofficial British heritage sport where people buy cheap old cars, lovingly restore them to working order, then smash them to pieces in a race on a mud track somewhere in the countryside—before repairing them so they can do it all over again.
A predominantly working-class subculture, the tradition is often passed down inter-generationally and drivers start as young as ten. Pigott's latest project No Guts, No Glory captures the quiet moments behind the chaos: the thrill and sense of belonging found in rear-ending someone in a f*cked-up Vauxhall Astra. Read the full story now on VICE.com.
First of all, thanks for bothering to read this caption. No doubt there will be many hundreds of angry people who won’t and will think that the dinergoth is something we invented, when it was in fact the writer and “startup CEO” Robert Mariani, a contributor to a site called The New Atlantic. According to his recent essay, the small towns of provincial America are being taken over by dinergoths, a new wave of misfits who take their social cues from the internet, and thus are destroying local culture—and maybe even reality itself—in every U.S. state that has never been accused of being home to a “coastal elite.”
Dinergoths vape, they dye their hair bright colors, they wear cat ears, they have arm tattoos and septum piercings and bad job prospects and probably also neurodivergence. In fairness, you’ve probably seen them around a lot; you might even be one yourself. Mariani isn’t wrong in saying that they exist—but when it comes to explaining why, VICE writer Hugo Hansen says he’s wide of the mark. Read his reasoning in full now at VICE.com. Link in bio!
The cut off is coming. You can become a new subscriber to VICE magazine anytime you like. But if you want the spring issue—The Not The Photo Issue—to be the first one that your mailman brings you, you need to subscribe by this Friday, April 10.
Happily, all the links you need to do exactly that are in the bio.
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? This is the question around which “The Drama” brilliantly pivots, as its twin protagonists (Zendaya, Robert Pattinson) see their dream engagement gradually sour into one of the most excruciating weddings in the history of cinema.
With nods to Michel Houllebecq and Ruben Östlund, “The Drama” doesn’t hide that it’s a provocation. At a time when many of us fear leaving the house without consulting three-to-five cultural and business review websites, it’s a truly courageous act to create a movie where so much hangs on an unexpected, speak-and-it’s-spoiled plot point, writes VICE’s @yungtolstoi in the latest edition of his LOST WEEKEND column.
Read in full now at VICE.com.
Images courtesy of A24.
The brand new The Not The Photo Issue of VICE magazine, available to pre order now. The print run is limited, so get in before they’re gone.
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