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Culture

How Greece is losing its soul to tourism

Paradise lost — Photographer Marinos Tsagkarakis explores his homeland and finds a country struggling to keep its soul.

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Film

Video: Life as an illegal tattoo artist in Havana

One foot forward... — A free-market economy is transforming Cuba... but one skateboarder feels torn over his country's changing identity.

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Music

Theft or inspiration: How musicians fight accusations of plagarism

The Song Remains… Similar? — From the six-second rule to the 'common source' defence, musicians have found all sorts of ways to fight off accusations of thievery. Ahead of Led Zeppelin's trial for copyright impingement next month, this is a song-by-song illustration of the loopholes that can make or break artists.

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Skate

Video: Skating through a waterpark on lockdown

Quarter pipes on the water pipes — What do you do when it’s time to drain a waterpark of hundreds of thousands of litres of water and shut it down for maintenance? Invite three world-class skateboarders in for some epic dry runs and slides, of course.

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Surf

The best new surf and skate films

As chosen by Hamburg’s surf community — SoCal skate docs collide with North Sea DIY surf movies at Nord Nordwest Surf Film Fest, Hamburg. Here are the festival favourites.

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Film

Boots on the Ground: Volunteers of the Refugee Crisis

Helping refugees at Europe's frontier — Volunteers have stepped in to fill gaps where the international community has failed to avert a humanitarian disaster.

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Culture

Artists respond to the Brussels terror attacks

U.N.I.T.Y. — After Brussels is hit by coordinated terrorist bombings, illustrators and artists around the world share their responses.

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Music

Does Slayer have the most diehard fans in the world?

Stories of life-long obsession — As Slayer release a gruesome new music video, thirty-five years after they first formed, Huck goes in search of the diehard fans who have signed up for life.

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Skate

Video: A culture-shocked tour of Japan by skateboard

Lost in Translation — Skaters Ishod Wair, Peter Ramondetta, Raven Tershy and Kevin Terpening rip through three Japanese cities with little sleep and plenty of confusion.

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Surf

Video: Surfing icon Derek Hynd on embracing the wave philosophically

Escaping into a pure source — A new documentary short offers an intimate portrait of one surfer's free-spirited approach to feeling at one with the sea.

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