Stuff Crush
On paper, wrestling just shouldn't work. A travelling circus of oiled-up, overly muscled men (and women) with long wet hair, squeezed into spandex budgie smugglers, jumping around a boxing ring-slash-trampoline performing choreographed “fights”,...
Stuff Crush
Where to start with the living art project that is Genesis Breyer P-Orridge? That's a bit of a tricky question when discussing someone with a few different incarnations all happening in one lifetime... The first version came into the world in...
City Notes
Planning an extended stay in Berlin? Well isn't everyone, but if you're lucky enough to make it happen, may we humbly point you in the direction of Gorki Apartments in the Berlin Mitte district. The development has 35 individually designed...
The Edit
Like most things concerning Israeli artist Noma Bar, there's more than one way to read his latest collection Cut The Conflict. On the one hand, it's either an exasperated plea or barked order aimed at warring countries to stop all the fighting. On...
City Notes
Anything with four legs would do well to steer clear of Bestia in downtown Los Angeles lest it ends up in chef Ori Menashe's “aggressively maintained” charcuterie consisting of more than 60 cured meats. That's an impressive amount of meat by...
City Notes
The Paris Review, co-founded by the late George Plimpton in 1953 and edited by him for 50 years, has enjoyed some pretty successful collaborations. The quarterly published a Jack Kerouac short story two years before On The Road hit the shelves, for...
The Edit
Charlotte Colbert has some dark thoughts rattling around her head. “Sometimes it feels like the thread linking us to the world is so frail that at any time it could break leaving us at the mercy of all our repressed confusion loss and fear,” she...
Journal
I watch as a half dozen oyster mushrooms, each the size of a spread palm, are pulled away from where they’re fruiting out of a cardboard box. Inside the box is a mixture of recycled card and mushroom spores, but mostly, it contains used...
City Notes
The Belgians love their beer so much that it's a surprise when any of their breweries become surplus to requirements, but that's what happened to the former Belle-Vue site in Brussels. Occupying an imposing spot on the banks of the Canal...
The Edit
If I was going to pick one branch of the fine arts to blunder around in, it would have to be collage. Collage artists just look like they have far more fun than the poor old tortured painters, and you get to play with knives without anyone...
City Notes
Between its heyday as a seaside resort in the first half of the 20th Century and the gentrified neighbourhood it is today, the Los Angeles version of Venice went through a bit of a rough patch, but the cloud of hard times came with a silver lining....
The Edit
There's nowt queer as folk, as the saying goes, and that's definitely true in England, the spiritual home of the eccentric. The work of photographers Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr shows a masterful skill at documenting the idiosyncratic British...
City Notes
Salon Volta is a new barbershop in Laval, Quebec, that rethinks the familiar codes of grooming through a concept centred on craft and community. Moving away from the traditional model, the project positions itself as a space where barbering unfolds...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
Dispatches
Some people discover mixology behind a bar on a busy Friday night. Others come to it through years of hosting dinner parties, obsessing over flavor combinations, or spending too much money on bitters collections they absolutely did not need. However...
Dispatches
There was a time when wedding bar service meant a single bartender, a few bottles of wine, and maybe a keg if the couple was feeling casual. Those days are long gone. Today's couples are rethinking the bar as one of the most meaningful parts of the...
Dispatches
Do you want to give your bathroom a fresh, trendy look with new tile? Tiles in the bathroom do more than just keep water from getting on your walls and floors. They can also give your area a joyful, colourful, tranquil, or futuristic vibe. There are...
Dispatches
Traditional birdwatching frequently seems like a commitment. It may involve long-haul flights to remote locations, getting up early in the morning, and spending hours in uncertain weather. Even then, sightings can never be guaranteed. For many, the...