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The Edit
If even half of what is written about Ian Dury on his Wikipedia page is true, then what a life he led. What? Oh come on, I can't have read every proper official biography and autobiography on every arts personality in the entire history of human...
Journal
Rules, protocols, accepted conventions, norms... BORING! Whatever your opinion of The xx, they're a 21st century band doing it entirely their own way. Free from the shackles of guitar band ritual, the Wandsworth trio have dared to craft their own...
Thessaloníki
RE (prefix): again. A versatile little piece of English put to great use at this café bar in the Greek port of Thessaloniki. Retro might be the best description of RE, a chance to enjoy a second childhood - or adolescence, depending on your age....
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For those still unaware, this year's Manchester International Festival sees the debut of a new audio/visual experience from filmmaker provocateur Adam Curtis and artist/Massive Attack main man Robert Del Naja; under the wordy guise of Massive Attack...
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Most people probably don't, or won't, remember their 20th birthday. You'll have been having too much fun. You're young, up on the latest trends, determined to have a fucking good time, at all costs. Fast forward twenty years and you'll probably be...
The Edit
Love him or loathe him, one could never accuse David Bowie of stagnating, or of becoming formulaic. The man has had more personalities than might be considered healthy, reinventing himself on a regular basis by becoming characters of his own...
Journal
Having been regularly attending gigs in Manchester for 22 years (a mixture of showing my age and starting early), there's scant that can surprise in terms of the city's venues. I've encountered the great, the not-so-great and the down-right shoddy...
Journal
It was late-2009, early 2010 when I fell in love. A spiral of bewildering Tumblr blogs, brimming with collages and post-political meanderings led to a sparsely recorded primal scream of a pop song, set to monochrome war footage and a zeppelin...
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100 things you'll never hear a DJ shout during a set #69: "somebody call this party an ambulance"... Ambulances at raves typically mean all's not well, however, the one we stumbled across at this year's Sónar was more about dancing than...
The Edit
“Open minded adult intellectuals only” warns the Satanic Mojo Comix exhibition poster, and we should probably apply the same restrictions in telling you about it. Goodness knows what that sort of filter will do to our readership, but we'll take...
Journal
We've all done it, haven't we...woken up and opened one bleary eye, and just for a second thought we could see Is This It by The Strokes lying on the floor by the bed, then realised it was just the way our socks had fallen on the floor the night...
Journal
For any music lover, lost classics are the Holy Grail. Years spent digging through crates of vinyl in a bid to upstage your friends and peers - an unheard gem, a rare b-side; it's like scientists and conservationists spending months camped in...
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...