Suroosh

"I don't think people are as afraid of us anymore," said Mr. Smith, a stocky 41-year-old who launched Vice with fellow Ottawan Gavin McInnes who left the company in 2008 and Suroosh Alvi, a Pakistani-Canadian from Toronto who studied philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, and has taken the role of sober straight man to his business partner's showman persona.

Vice Media Tries to Keep Its Cool Steve Dollar 2011

Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal 'We've always been a little rawer in the content we make,' said Suroosh Alvi, another Vice co-founder.

Vice's Cool Crowd Goes Corporate 2011

Suroosh, you helped get them - with contributions from the heavy metal community, you helped get them into Turkey.

Playing Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Acrassicauda 2010

GROSS: Suroosh, you and your co-director helped organized a concert for the band at the Al-Fanar Hotel in Iraq.

Playing Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Acrassicauda 2010

GROSS: And Suroosh, congratulations on the movie and thank you for talking with us.

Playing Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Acrassicauda 2010

Gavin McInnes, Shane Smith, and Suroosh Alvi are three old punks who run such a business.

The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

Suroosh had recently come out of rehab and had started a free magazine called the Voice of Montreal to keep himself occupied in a bid to stay clean.

The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

After touring with a couple of bands, they found themselves in Montreal in 1994, where they met Suroosh Alvi.

The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

I asked Suroosh about the cash spent on the party, and how as they said it-managed to stay afloat "while the dinosaurs that surround us slowly suffocate in the tar pits of their financial ruin."

Gawker 2009

Volunteers such as White and Suroosh are hoping they'll get the chance to become employees again when the economy improves.

News for Lynchburg News Advance 2009