Gentrification
NYC legend Gouch on chasing immortality through graffiti
Leaving your mark on a city — GOUCH is a beautifully shot documentary about New York graffiti culture and one's man drive to leave a legacy within it. Huck spoke with filmmaker Raul Buitrago and graffiti writer Gouch about the challenges of writing graff history.
Written by: Cian Traynor
LA’s 6th Street Viaduct was the bridge you never knew you loved
Saying goodbye to an architectural movie star — Local landmark, subculture magnet and Hollywood star – Los Angeles' 6th Street Viaduct was many things to many people. Until it was torn down in late January, to be replaced by a space-age bridge straight out of the millennial architect handbook. Residents are worried, while others, including Dogtown legend CR Stecyk, continue to mourn its legacy.
Written by: Adam White
The world's best indie bookshops that are defying Amazon
Why not leave the house to buy things? — Inspired by the announced-then-retracted news that Amazon is planning to open 300 to 400 of their own bricks-and-mortar bookshops, Huck takes a look around the world to find some of the very best independent bookstores to have resisted the domination of online retail.
Written by: Adam White
Video: No-bullshit New Yorkers searching for solitude in the madness of the Big Apple
In glorious black and white — Inspired by everyday, take-no-bullshit New Yorkers who hustle through life and fight to survive, documentarian Alexander Hankoff has launched NYChapters, a new short film series about New Yorkers finding their own small spaces of peace and creativity.
Written by: Adam White
The man fighting to save UK music venues and the culture created within their walls
Interview: Music Venue Trust — Grassroots music venues are closing at a rapid rate across the country, everywhere from central London to sleepy Norfolk. Huck speaks to Mark Davyd, chairman of the Music Venue Trust, about the continued fight to curb the crisis and save alternative culture at large.
Written by: Adam White
One Weekend: Four Dispatches from the front lines of Britain's Class War
The lines are drawn — The FUCK Parade turned East London's Cereal Killer Café into a battleground, but as Michael Fordham discovers, the class war is alive and well across the country: from a Somerset rugby match, to a Sheffield benefit office and the scene of a shooting in Hackney.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Clayton Patterson’s battle to save NYC’s alternative culture
Last days on the Lower East Side — The rebel photographer on how New York City lost its way.
Written by: Alex King
Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past
Outlaw art — Patterson’s Outside In retrospective at Howl Arts bridges back to the grassroots creativity of pre-gentrification NYC.
Written by: Alex King
Meet the leader of the Lower East Side’s last street gang
Colours, crime and second chances — Cochise led the Satan's Sinners Nomads street gang on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1980s. After being sent to prison for the attempted murder of two gang members, he turned his life around and now makes art.
Written by: Alex King
NYC's hipster clichés come under the magnifying glass
Brooklyn: For Real — Following in the footsteps of Vimeo series High Maintenance, Brooklyn: For Real presents a riotous parody of Brooklyn’s creative inhabitants.
Written by: Robin Nierynck
