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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
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
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
Huck 82: The Music Issue is here
Give Me Space — Introducing our latest music themed issue, covered by Kojey Radical.
Written by: Josh Jones
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
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
“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
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
As Washington DC rapidly gentrifies, street dancers refuse to be pushed out
Song of Sons — Go-go and Beat Ya Feet are ingrained into the US capital’s fabric, but as its Black population gets displaced, their presence is increasingly under threat. Nate Langston Palmer’s ongoing project immortalises the culture.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Aram Sabbah: “The whole world is hypocritical”
To a Land Unknown — One of Palestine’s first ever, and most prominent skaters has made his acting debut, playing a refugee in Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s new feature film. We caught up with him in our culture newsletter to hear about it.
Written by: Isaac Muk
