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The counterculture club

By Tim Bradshaw

Published: November 18 2009 22:35 | Last updated: November 18 2009 22:35

Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith

It’s Halloween, and Vice Magazine, a streetwise glossy monthly given away for free in the world’s hippest stores, is throwing a party. Vice throws parties all the time. While media companies around the world limp through another quarter of plummeting advertising revenues and staff cuts, the fact that Vice is blowing $250,000 on a Brooklyn bash for 2,000 readers to celebrate 15 years in print is unusual.

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