Huck

It’s always a good time to make music,” says Lee-Ann Curren. “Just like it’s always a good time to surf. It’s all intertwined and, for me, one doesn’t exist without the other.” The 28-year-old is not the first Curren to think in those terms. Her fath

BACK IN 1978, WHILE living in Oakland, photographer Ryan Weideman saw Midnight Express, a nerve-wracking film that tells the true story of Billy Hayes – a young American who, after being caught smuggling hashish, escapes from a Turkish jail and lives

Robert Boerleider steps off the plane at San Francisco International Airport looking ecstatic. For decades, the Dutchman has romanticised America as a cultural mecca and the birthplace of skateboarding. Now he’s about to embark on a three-week road t

At a pair of converted shipping containers in Shoreditch, East London, queues are snaking out the door of CookDaily – a vegan restaurant that’s as unconventional as it is unlikely. Between the graffiti-adorned walls, old-school arcade machines and br

Baigalmaa Norjmaa is a 30-year-old adventurer embarking on a 12,000km trek from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital, all the way to London. It’ll take three years, encompass 14 countries and require enduring temperatures as low as -50 degrees. “It’s not

IN AN OLD North London gym, sandwiched between Crouch End and Finsbury Park, a group of 30 boxers are receiving a bollocking. “We don’t play boxing!” barks Jerry Mitchell, a senior coach at Islington Boxing Club. Dressed head to toe in Adidas, he ber

NORA VASCONCELLOS TRAIPSES through the darkened hallway of her family home in Massachusetts, bleary eyed and wrapped in a robe. It’s Christmas morning, 1997, and her father has trained a camcorder on the five-year-old before excitedly lobbing questio

ON HALLOWEEN 1976, a spaceship descended on the stage of a Houston sports arena in front of 15,000 people. When the smoke and sparks cleared, a figure calling himself Dr Funkenstein – dressed all in fur with a pair of shades – stepped out to the soun

Whenever Hedy Lamarr used to come home after a long day on set, she’d stay up all night. Back in the 1940s, actors would retire to bed with a studioissued sleeping pill – knocking them out before an ‘upper’ brought them back around. But Hedy Lamarr w

In 1976, four shaggy-haired surfers travelled on a ninemonth adventure through the heart of Latin America. Driving their Volkswagen Kombi all the way from Brazil to California, the quartet covered 10,000km of open road and took every opportunity to p

Lawrence is thinking about what might have been. He’s nursing a cold cup of tea, sitting in a sparsely furnished London apartment – mostly just a sofa, record player and a TV on the floor – reflecting on where exactly things went wrong. Three decades

La Sape is a way of life, built on a simple set of values: dress sharp, act with integrity and inspire others. The subculture originally took root in Congolese society during colonial times, when ‘évolués’ would imitate bourgeoise elegance as a way o

IN THE 1970S, Edward Relph introduced us to the term ‘placelessness’ – the risk of reducing complex destinations and, by default, human beings and circumstances to generic ‘single stories’. Relph explains that in order to comprehend what it means to

Born in 1954, Tony McGee’s fascination with photography began early on. At the age of eight, he’d assume camera duties during family get-togethers. “It always had that wow factor,” he explains. “Photography, to me, was magical.” At 16, he became a fa

Supaman stands on stage at the back of a gym hall – the kind with corrugated metal for walls – and searches the crowd for volunteers. Behind him hangs a flag representing a local native tribe, who are hosting a Native American Family Wellness Day in

It’s a bright but frigid Friday afternoon in East Baltimore, where the sun casts long shadows off a row of vacant homes. Activist Erricka Bridgeford arrives at a local hub for nonprofits and checks her phone for news. We’re nearly 14 hours into a cit

Born in Zambia, raised in Botswana and now living in Australia, Sampa Tembo developed a knack for spoken-word poetry at an early age. So when that morphed into a flow perfectly primed for hip hop, she was able to turn her breadth of experience into a

At the age of three, Jérôme Sahyoun came home from preschool one day and swore to his mother that he would spend his life under the open sky. It’s a promise the 37-year-old Moroccan has come good on. After being expelled from school, Jérôme was put t