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In 2010, seemingly healthy 40-year-old stand-up comedian Markus Birdman woke up blind as the result of a stroke. Two years later, he talks about this life-altering brush with death as…
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What happens when you mix punk music, heavy drinking,drug use and a few homos with American Muslim culture? You get The Taqwacores! This sub-minority is a haven for American Muslim…
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War Toys
What do you think of when you hear the word 'war'? Bullets? Soldiers? Bloodshed? What about 'toys'? Brian McCarty does. So he photographs them in major conflict zones. Which seems…
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A History of Living Forever
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Exit Festival 2011
Sitting on the long coach from Budapest to Belgrade, I am handed a questionnaire, presumably on the behalf of some tourist board, asking what my first associations with Serbia are.…
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Chris Scarborough specialises in reinterpreting Japanese pop culture in a kind of manic way that echoes Shintaro Kago (minus some of the porn). He alternates between photography and illustration, creating…
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Fokofpolisiekar
Fokofpolisiekar (fuck off police car) exploded on the South African music scene in 2003. At the time, most local bands were still singing in fake American accents. And the idea…
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Big Lebowski Spawns Religion
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Xia Xiaowan
When I ask Beijing painter Xia Xiaowan to list a few of his favourite artists, he replies, simply, “Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci”. When I ask about his latest…
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Amer
The names Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani might not be familiar in the world of cinema, but on the evidence of their debut full length film Amer, they will surely…
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