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The concrete haven where skateboarding is just the start

When two friends made plans to restore a derelict skate park by hand, they also set out to reignite a community. The result is a brand new chapter for Hackney Bumps, a DIY sanctuary in the heart of East London.

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  • Jessica Holland

Inside the American town burning since 1962

In the ’80s, photographer Renée Jacobs touched down in Centralia, a small Appalachian mining town approaching its final chapter due to the slow creep of an unstoppable fire, blazing 300 feet below ground.

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  • Miss Rosen

Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin on her London studio

We catch up with the singer in her London studio to connect the dots between music, painting and her relationship with the city.

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  • Ben Smoke

The story of Bureh Beach, Sierra Leone’s surf capital

Bureh is located on the Sierra Leone peninsula, a crescent-shaped cove known for its golden stretch of sand. It’s here that the country’s first ever surf club was born, kickstarting a journey that has seen the town become the nation’s wave-riding capital – despite the challenges it continues to face.

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  • Peter Yeung

The Gaza parkour group taking back a part of their city

A group of young Palestinians have found temporary freedom in the act of parkour, reimagining wreckage and ruins as a series of high-octane playgrounds. The fearless collective see freerunning as a way of taking their immediate environment to its absolute limits – and, in the process, reclaiming some of it.

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  • Gunseli Yalcinkaya

Mitski is tired of working for the knife

Huck’s latest cover star speaks out against the exploitation that defines the music industry, imagining a future in which the artist is no longer a product.

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  • Al Horner

The hidden Philly swim spot suspended in time

Over the years, a swimming hole in a city park has evolved into a magnetic meeting place for Philadelphians – a hideaway where people can connect with the natural landscape, and each other.

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  • Niall Flynn

Sharon Van Etten on love, loss and doing the unexpected

The singer-songwriter discusses her intimate new project and the advice she’s picked up across a career as one of rock’s leading voices.

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  • Thomas Hobbs

Young Ukrainians are fighting for the future they’ve built

Resistance pulses through Kyiv’s interconnected subcultures. As a full-scale Russian invasion threatens everything, the movement is fighting back to prevent Putin from destroying the world they’ve worked for.

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  • Alex King

Tice Cin is writing the London she lives

Author, artist, screenwriter, DJ, producer: the Tottenham native is multidisciplinary in every sense of the word. Following the success of her acclaimed debut novel, she’s restating her commitment to the place that made her, with a plan to create pathways so that others can replicate her journey.

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  • Robert Kazandjian

Huck Issue 77 is out now

It’s Mitski season — Our new magazine is here, starring the inimitable Mitski. Order your copy now and join us on a trip around the world.

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