Soul Quest claims it is unable to pay $15 million in compensation to the grieving family of 22-year-old Brandon Begley.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x3b4/the-bankrupt-ayahuasca-church-where-negligence-led-to-death?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#SPIRITUALITY #Hallucinogens #psychedelics #SoulQuest #Florida #healing #wellness #Crime #ayahuasca #medicine #rituals #Church #Religion

The Welsh techno producer, the first signing to George Daniel's new dh2 label, has come a long way from the cancer ward she worked on as a teen.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bnx8/kelly-lee-owens-is-for-the-working-class-dreamers?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Interview #kellyleeowens #electronicmusic #rave #POP #GeorgeDaniel #dh2 #CharliXCX #dirtyhit #bratsummer

Dressage villain Charlotte Dujardin recently found out 24 is too many. So what is acceptable? Fifteen? Eight? Three?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjk35/expert-how-many-times-whip-a-horse-one-minute-dressage-charlotte-dujardin?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#animalcruelty #Dressage #horses #CharlotteDujardin #theolympics #Scandal #controversy #TheHumaneSocietyInternational

Learn about the sneaky new ploys they’ve been dreaming up to impoverish and humiliate you.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv5xv/scammers-told-us-five-ways-theyll-scam-you-in-the-future?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Crime #scams #Internet #Fraud #SCAMMERS #Interviews #QRcodes #AI

Pints, bodypaint, and punch-ups in the most English part of Spain.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3mbw/watching-the-euro-2024-final-with-england-fans-in-benidorm?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Football #Benidorm #england #TOURISM #Spain #euro2024 #Travel #Photography #violence #drinking

Hollywood and pulp fiction have unwittingly—and sometimes intentionally—spawned real-world conspiracy theories, from lizard people to the Illuminati.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pka4xb/conspiracy-theory-origins-pop-culture?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Culture #conspiracytheorists #davidicke #TheXFiles #TruthHurts

Danny Gould fled his tough upbringing in Essex for the White Isle in its early 90s glory years—and had so much fun it almost killed him.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b8x4/the-king-of-ibiza-danny-gould?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#IBIZA #Drugs #Crime #parties #Nightlife #Clubbing #memoirs #hedonism #Cocaine #ecstasy #acid #Alcohol #addiction

How do you vacation when your passion is sitting alone in a room all day, getting off to porn? We asked the gooning community.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv9ma/gooners-go-on-holiday?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Gooners #Sex #porn #Travel #Fetish #Internet #Holidays #Interviews #gooning #humaningenuity

As Europe’s youth lurch towards extremist, far-right politics, so do their euphoric party drugs.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxja4x/nazi-drugs-are-sweeping-across-europe?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#neo-nazi #fascism #Hitler #ecstasy #Cocaine #far-rightextremists #LSD #Weed #Crime #extremism #Europe #Politics

Eric Adjenty Anang wants to send you to the afterlife in style.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m7q9/the-crazy-coffins-of-ghana?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#death #funerals #GHANA #coffins #grief #Culture #carpentry

Meet one of Australia's most talented young artists.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y9w9/how-digital-artist-serwah-attafuah-ended-up-working-with-paris-hilton?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Culture

For their first book, Melbourne-based photographer Marlo W met, photographed and interviewed 18 trans and gender diverse elders living in Melbourne.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bnp3/who-tells-the-stories-of-our-trans-elders?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#queer #trans #transgender #LGBTQA+ #Culture #elderly #Photos #Photography #Art #Exhibition #melbourne #pride #Identity #Gender

Katoomba's Yellow Deli is owned and operated by the Twelve Tribes. Amongst other things they're about "producing an army of 144,000 male virgins, who would prepare the way for Christ's second coming."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnkngd/visiting-the-cafe-thats-so-good-people-ignore-its-run-by-a-cult?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Food #Cult #Australia/NZ #ViceBlog #TwelveTribes #foodreviews #bluemountains

“All revolutionaries go to jail,” says Gary Youds, who's now been imprisoned four times.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bn93/the-uks-cannabis-martyr-keeps-getting-jailed-for-opening-weed-cafes?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Weed #Cannabis #police #liverpool #garyyouds

The tabloid media has invented another way to explain people’s attraction to the actual status quo. They’re not objectively ugly dudes, they’re “sexy rat men”, and the internet is currently filled up with articles explaining their “rise”.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjazx/hot-rodent-men?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Culture #rodentman #rodents #rats #challengers #zendaya #hotmen #CELEBRITIES #hot #VICEAustralia #jeremyallenwhite

“Cats have nine lives. He might have fucking 11,” says pro skater Elijah Berle, “because it’s insane some of these stories I hear."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z93m/anthony-van-engelen-skateboarding-film-epicly-laterd?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#skating #EpiclyLater’d #AnthonyVanEngelen #Documentary #DylanRieder #AaronMeza #California

‘Hells Angels: Kingdom Come,’ a new VICE documentary series, follows their origins—and the war raging across their territories.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw3aj/inside-the-rise-of-the-hells-angels-the-worlds-most-powerful-biker-gang?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Crime #Drugs #HellsAngels #BikerGangs #OrganizedCrime #BIKERS

The pandemic sure was a weird time in everybody's lives.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ey3w/leader-the-biggest-tiktok-cult-melissa-ong-step-chickens-pandemic?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#cults #theinternet #SocialMedia #TikTok #StepChickens #trends #fads #documentaries #MelissaOng #thepandemic

Starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Bill Goldberg, Eric Bischoff and many more, the four-part series miniseries begins on VICE TV on June 4.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9eda/who-killed-wcw-a-new-show-unpacks-the-collapse-of-a-wrestling-superpower?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#WRESTLING #wwf #WWE #WCW #TheRock #ericbischoff #90S

"I had no idea what I was doing."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kj33/fashion-designer-erik-yvon-breaking-into-the-industry?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Culture