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San Diego skater Marius Syvanen shows us his hometown's hidden corners

Huck x Levi's Skateboarding: Going Slow Sucks — In the first video to celebrate our annual Skateboarding Special, in collaboration with Levi's Skateboarding, we follow Finnish skater Marius Syvanen around the personal spots that have made San Diego home.

  • Film
  • Shelley Jones

Skateboarding Special II: stories of independence

A Levis® Skateboarding x Huck production — Independent characters from skate culture – like K-Dub of Oakland's Town Park, Antisocial head honcho Michelle Pezel and Palestine skate charity SkatePAL – explore what it means to go it alone.

  • Skate
  • Shelley Jones

A tribute to smutty Soho by skater and Thames London founder Blondey McCoy

God Save The Queenie — An exhibition of gleefully anti-monarchical collages by Palace skater and Thames London brand man Blondey McCoy recall a Raymondesque era of London's former red-light land.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

Coen brother of fiction Patrick deWitt & the comedy of modern characters in antique settings

New book: Undermajordomo Minor — Man Booker Prize shortlisted Canadian author Patrick deWitt is back with his third novel – a gothic fairytale with a contemporary twist.

  • Print
  • Shelley Jones

Real kids from cult Larry Clark film Kids are making a doc about what actually went down

Behind-the-scenes expose on 20th anniversary — Hamilton Harris – the blunt-rolling kid from Larry Clark's seminal film Kids – is raising funds for a new doc that will explore the real lives and stories that inspired the cult classic.

  • Film
  • Shelley Jones

For award-winning novelist Nell Zink, life began at fifty

A new chapter — A letter to Jonathan Franzen about bird hunting in the Western Balkans forced Nell Zink out of obscurity and into literary stardom with her debut novel The Wallcreeper.

  • Print
  • Shelley Jones

Governments fail to help refugees so people take matters into their own hands

Grassroots activists mobilise for displaced people — Organisations like CalAid, Refugees Welcome and the thousands of Icelanders offering their homes to displaced people, are doing more than responding to an international emergency, they're building a better Europe.

  • Activism
  • Shelley Jones

Selfies, rehab, porn and teleportation: getting to know Zac Carper of LA punk band FIDLAR

New album: Too — We ask frontman Zac Carper of LA punk band FIDLAR a question inspired by every track on their new album Too.

  • Music
  • Shelley Jones

Hard work and amazing peace: this is life off the grid

Freedom to breathe — Fed up with her life in the city, Lisa a Nottingham-born mother of three decided to opt out and build something new.

  • Reportage
  • Shelley Jones

New doc on Rainbow Gatherings: where disenfranchised Americans build their own utopia

Dirty Kids by Alice Stein — The subversive movements of the '60s and '70s are still a lifeline for outcast kids across America.

  • Film
  • Shelley Jones

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