Art & Culture
What looks more painful: covering your entire back with a colourful Japanese folk art tattoo, or wearing nothing but a twisted towel up your bum crack in order to show it off? You can mull over that conundrum to your heart's content with a copy of...
Publications
This is unbelievable. Leave a dog trapped in a hot car, kick it about or otherwise neglect the poor thing and you will quite rightly find yourself hauled before the magistrate pleading for clemency. And yet you can do this to a dog and be showered...
Publications
Interrogations by Donald Weber is not a new book (it was published at the end of 2011) but it bears a look now for three reasons. Firstly, it's excellent in a most shocking way – a fact that has led to reason two, it's inclusion in the latest...
Fashion
It can be a bit of a cringe-worthy experience looking back at old photos, and more so the older we get. Even the most dedicated follower of fashion has a few skeletons in the wardrobe from their formative years, which begs the question: What was...
Art & Culture
This art lark seems like a good wheeze doesn't it? For most of the folks we feature on the pages of We Heart, the journey begins with some natural talent, but after that the road to success in the creative arts is a tricky one to navigate. Luckily,...
Art & Culture
Cat Garcia's self-published Our Time is a beautiful observation of “the ordinary lives of extraordinary people”. The large photo-essay book looks at sixty of Britain’s most creative makers, thinkers, writers, designers and artists. Garcia...
Publications
Sipke Visser first entered our lives last year, his book Return to Sender documenting an inspired personal photography project that was bred upon real-world emotion. October saw the London-based Dutch photographer launch a successful Kickstarter to...
Publications
As Egg looks out from his hiding place among the trees, the cars and buses sit rusting in the ruined streets. There's no sign of life. What has happened to this city? Has it fallen victim to a zombie apocalypse? Or have the machines risen and taken...
Publications
Did you know that the human brain can hold 1,000 Terabytes of memories? Or that 25mph is the maximum ground speed of a wild turkey? No, of course you didn't, but that's the kind of ignorance that The Book of Everyone can put right. It's a new...
Publications
Where would we be without the internet? Unemployed and homeless in my case, desperately lacking in amusing pictures of cats, and totally unaware that we needed a list of 18 surprisingly short celebrities (ICYMI, Hayden Panettiere is only 5ft...
Publications
If the walls could talk, the Hotel Chelsea would have the mother of all stories to tell. A New York landmark, blessed with a lovely red brick façade adorned with steel balconies, the Chelsea's real interest lies in its history. Built in the 1880s,...
Publications
City High Streets have become a homogeneous smear of corporate branding. The same names on the same lightbox signs, and the same things inside. The same services and products at the same price delivered by people in the same uniforms. The same. Of...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...