Programming is wide ranging but firmly in the Vice voice and includes series such as "Bolivian Marching Powder," in which a Vice correspondent tracks down Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, travels the famously deadly road from La Paz and fills us in on the hows and whys of cocaine production. (And what do you know? I can watch this without providing my last two tax returns.)
Other highlights include the online version of the Vice Travel Guide. The latter features such off-the-beaten-track adventures as New Year's Eve in Kabul and Vice co-founder Suroosh Alvi's trip inside Northwest Pakistan to check in on an illegal-arms market.
This is not to say all the site's content is so weighty. The magazine's still-funny staple "Do's and Don'ts" comes to life with staffers and a range of guests such as Judah Friedlander and David Cross dissecting the usual assortment of lifestyle and fashion choices. And as a counterpoint to just about everything, there's the oddly absorbing "The Cute Show," featuring soft bunnies and little ponies (see the March issue of Creativity for more on VBS).
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