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The story of Steven Universe: TV's smartest cartoon

An animated revolution — Rebecca Sugar’s vision of a half−magic, half−human boy has turned into a socially conscious phenomenon. As Cartoon Network’s first female showrunner, she’s created a daring series that has fun with big topics. Now the challenge is to keep on growing.

  • Film
  • Alex Robert Ross

The liberal redneck killing stereotypes with humour

Kings of comedy — From standup to satire, jokes can trigger change. To help resist – through the power of laughter – we’re celebrating radical voices that rise above the rest. In this instalment, Trae Crowder reveals why his outsider status – ‘white-trash’ meets well-educated – gives him license to pierce bubbles across the political spectrum.

  • Culture
  • Iris Mansour

For LA's rebel explorer, adventure is a mindset

Not your average tour guide — From old zoos to an abandoned Nazi compound, discovering hidden places is a way of life for Tom Carroll – a wanderer who sees opportunity everywhere, even in the backyard.

  • Culture
  • Josh Jones

The all-female bike crew reclaiming the streets of East LA

Breaking the cycle — Cycling collective Ovarian Psycos are on a mission to take back the city in the name of sisterhood.

  • Outdoors
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

A personal interview with Jonathan Shaw: writer, tattooist, hellraiser & 'anti-hero of the new age'

A Curious Student of Life — Jonathan Shaw travelled the world and left a red-hot mark on the people and places he encountered, but the real adventure, he insists, is the one you start when you get back home.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

Artist Geoff McFetridge talks about drawing inspiration from Saul Steinberg

Geoff on Saul — A conversation about two outsiders and the influences they let in.

  • Culture
  • Andrea Kurland

Ashley Macomber makes art that is beautiful and disgusting at the same time

A world of extremes — “Route 9 may well have sparked my fascination with opposite ends of the spectrum.”

  • Art
  • Caroline Ryder

Artist, comedian, actor, skater. Only Los Angeles could have spat out Kevin Christy

Hard Won Laughs — “I just ate hot shit. I bombed so hard. And then I kept bombing for three years.”

  • Art
  • Rob Boffard

Ashley Macomber

Studio Sounds — Fine artist Ashley Macomber shares the music that reverberates around her LA studio.

  • Magazine
  • HUCK HQ

PUSH x Element

The New Collection — LA graffiti writer and artist PUSH is keeping his pattern consistent and switching up the canvas with his new PUSH x Element collab.

  • Culture
  • Natalie Davies

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