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Sport

Vibrations and victories at the World Worm Charming Championships

The magic below — Every year, the small town of Nantwich in Cheshire turns the quiet art of coaxing worms from the earth into an internationally known sport, as competitors shake, stomp, and strum their way to glory.

Written by: Ella Glossop

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Culture

How Santa Monica Blvd inspired queer classic film Hustler White

Baal — Rick Castro’s new exhibition explores his journey from photographing male sex workers in LA to creating one of the most shocking LGBTQ+ films of all time.

Written by: Miss Rosen

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Culture

Surreal celeb turns and creeping surveillance: Goodbye 2025’s endless bummer

Huck’s August dispatch — Justin Bieber’s stock up, Lana Del Rey’s down? The Sydney Sweeney jeans fiasco? Newsletter columnist Emma Garland rounds up a strange, psychedelic summer in culture.

Written by: Emma Garland

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Culture

Psychedelic scenes of America’s Wild West

Frontier — As the artist behind the myth-building Marlboro ads of the ’80s and ’90s, Jim Krantz has spent decades crafting Hollywood worthy cinematic photographs. His new photobook explores his work in shaping the rugged individualism of cowboy imagery.

Written by: Miss Rosen

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Culture

Heartwarming, harmonious portraits of Istanbul’s street cats

City Cats of Istanbul — Türkiye’s largest metropolis has a symbiotic relationship between humans and felines that dates back millennia. Marcel Heijnen’s new book explores the interaction between space, society and strays.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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Music

Huck 82: The Music Issue is here

Give Me Space — Introducing our latest music themed issue, covered by Kojey Radical.

Written by: Josh Jones

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Culture

As Italy’s rave culture faces crackdowns, a cyberpunk citadel fights to survive

Mutonia must stay — Having fled the UK in the face of increasingly oppressive Thatcherite laws, a collective of artists and musicians eventually found a home in an abandoned quarry over three decades ago. Now, they may have to move once again.

Written by: Marco De Vidi

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Sport

The Delhi basement forging India’s top skaters

Below deck — In a supermetropolis with little to no infrastructure for skaters, an underground academy is leading the city’s development of elite athletes, as well as providing a space for boarders of any level to try out and train.

Written by: Paridhi Badgotri

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Activism

“Young people are carrying fear”: Emerald in conversation with Big Zuu and Kerry O’Brien

DSYF x YUAF x DRIP — A new collaborative initiative sets up a mobile youth club on a bus, which has been travelling around London to run workshops and activities for the city’s young people. DJ and broadcaster Emerald hosted a roundtable with rapper Big Zuu and YUAF founder Kerry O’Brien to hear about it.

Written by: Huck

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Music

Inside Japan’s ’90s gabber and hardcore underground

Manga Corps — A new book published by Italian hardcore artist Gabber Eleganza archives ephemera and flyers from the early days of gabber and hardcore from Tokyo and Osaka, which has gone on to have an outsized influence on popular music today.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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