Issue 80: Autumn/Winter 2023

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RADICAL CULTURE

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Editor Note
This is the Power of Words issue. It has never been more important to have strong, independent voices speaking truth to power and fighting for justice. Whether it’s challenging authoritarian regimes, exposing war crimes, combatting powerful AI, writi
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Editor-in-Chief Andrea Kurland andrea@tcolondon.com Editor Josh Jones joshjones@tcolondon.com Senior Editor Alex King alex@tcolondon.com Digital Editor Ben Smoke ben.smoke@tcolondon.com Social Editor Isaac Muk isaac@tcolondon.com Copy Editor Monisha
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When The East Is In The House!
IN MARCH 1997, ZOO YORK premiered their first full-length video at the New York Underground Film Festival. Mixtape would be a radical departure from the skate video norm at the time. First and foremost, it was the biggest team video released by an Ea
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Blanco Is Rebourne
The Lower Third is an intimate, low-ceilinged basement set under London’s Denmark Street, a historically musical location. Putting on sunglasses, as a flurry of smartphone cameras flash him, Blanco, one of London’s finest MCs, addresses the roughly 2
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SIGN of THE TIMES
THE ‘DRAMA STUDIO’ — a classroom whose breeze blocks had been painted navy rather than cream — at my school didn’t have desks. Classes were normally spent sitting on chairs in a circle. When it came to watching things, we’d crowd our seats around the
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Teezee Does It
Hearing Yoruba or pidgin used to be something third-culture kids might only hear at home or over the phone. Fast forward to Afrobeats’ global spread and its rise in prominence in pop is as fast as the ‘millennial whoop’ was in the 2010s in the UK and
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The Future Is Written
THE CURRENT STATE OF MEDIA journalism could perhaps be summed up by an off-the-cuff tweet I wrote in July: “It’s so depressing that I’ve gone into every job I’ve had in media knowing I’ll probably be laid off at some point if I don’t leave first.” I
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The Freaks Came Out To Write
Tricia Romano’s The Freaks Came Out To Write tells the story of New York’s iconic Village Voice, using over 200 interviews with the people who were there. The paper was the first publication to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and the AIDS c
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Word On The street
Subversive street artist Foka Wolf has an air of mystery about him. He’s never photographed and doesn’t like to give away too much for obvious reasons. He’s based somewhere in the UK’s Midlands area and has been using text installations and interrupt
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Zhoosh Your Riah
“I like zhoosh,” says Professor Paul Baker on his favourite Polari word when we interviewed him for this feature. “It’s got an interesting pronunciation and starts with a consonant sound that rarely appears at the start of words in English (the “zhju
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Peak Communication
Truly effective communication transcends mere words. It’s how you choose to communicate, with whom you communicate, and the trust that underpins it all. Married climbing partners Jesse and Molly Dufton have this down to a fine art, enabling them to c
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Surf School
On the south coast of Sri Lanka, under the ample shade of a Wetakeiya tree, a group of local young women are sitting in the sand learning about ocean safety. On their laps are booklets written half in English and half in the ornate looping curls of S
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Blindboy Boatclub is Huck 80’s Artist-In-Residence.
Musician, comedian, podcaster, writer and philosopher, Blindboy Boatclub is a cultural figurehead and one of Ireland’s foremost artistic voices. He has published two number-one bestselling books of short stories: The Gospel According to Blindboy and

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