Can tourism alleviate global poverty?
Wouldn’t it be great if something as simple and pleasurable as international travel could help end something as grinding and enduring as global poverty?…
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The surprising academic origins of memes
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Instagram is making you a worse tourist
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Trillions of cigarette butts are littered each year and it’s damaging environment
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Ancient Tattooing in Polynesia: World’s oldest toolkit found in Tonga
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Brutalism in Tangier, Morocco’s most artistic city
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Tea and Heroin with a Tribal Chief in Al Qaeda Territory
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Collage art and activism in Chile: Instagram posts building on the legacy of Latin American ‘mail art’
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A prison called Gaza: new book offers a startling insight into everyday life in the territory
“A place of spacious dimensions, and large population, with fine bazaars. It contains numerous mosques, and there is no wall around it.” To the…
Nightlife Culture: Berlin vs London
Nightclubs across London recently turned off their music and observed a moment of silence in protest against club closures. Since the legendary London club…
Life in limbo: the Rohingya refugees trapped between Myanmar and Bangladesh
Violence against the Rohingyas, an ethnic Muslim minority in Myanmar, has reached a new high according to a report published by the United Nations….
Brooklyn’s Wonder Boy | Getting to Know AIMES
Aman Ellis, otherwise known by his DJ name AIMES, made his mark on the international electronic music scene in 2017 by releasing some killer…
Magnetic Fields 2017: a feast for the senses in India’s desertscape
Putting your festival out of easy reach, in the middle of the desert, is a gamble. Is it worth travelling for? But it means…
2017: A Musical Odyssey | End of the Year Superlatives
By now you’ve read most of the lists from all the online list-makers. If you’re like us and were left wanting more – more…
Best of December: Magnetic Fields 2017
In the beautiful Alsisar Palace, 250 km from the capital, Magnetic Fields 2017 is the comfort in the chaos of the smoggy winters of…
The ‘floating people’ of Myanmar: how Rohingya refugees reclaim their identity through art and song
The Moghs [the Rakhine people of Myanmar] refer to us as ‘floating people’ as we do not have citizenship in our country. My grandfather,…
What Iranian women want: rights, jobs and a seat at the table
Issues affecting women were conspicuously absent from Iran’s 2017 presidential election. That’s unless one finds useful the leading conservative candidate Hojjat al-Islam Ebrahim Raisi’s…
The rise of veganism in politics
Manès Weisskircher, Open Democracy In November 1944, a woodwork teacher called Donald Watson founded The Vegan Society in the English city of Leicester, thereby coining ‘veganism’ as…
The Performative Transportation of Eliza Carthy
Eliza Carthy has a powerful stage presence. Even from the back of the large crowd watching her on the main stage, she pulls on…
Marvin & Guy: “Gig Zero” to ADE
This week marks the beginning of Amsterdam Dance Event, where tens of thousands of fans and hundreds of the world’s best electronic music artists…
Interviewing Acid Waxa: A Love Letter to Acid
Newcastle-based acid record label Acid Waxa first came to our attention when we discovered the incredible Emotinium by Roy of the Ravers (listen above). We caught…
Review: Gin for Breakfast at Tristan Bates Theatre, London
Gin for Breakfast begins with a booze-soaked farewell to youth as Jen (Jessica Guise) celebrates her twenty-ninth birthday with childhood friend Robbie (Tristan Beint)…
Greenland: how rapid climate change on world’s largest island will affect us all
The largest wildfire ever recorded in Greenland was recently spotted close to the west coast town of Sisimiut, not far from Disko Island where…
An interview with ex-homeless artist David Tovey
Recently, we had a chance to speak to ex-homeless artist and activist, David Tovey. David’s story is an inspiring one. He went from life as a…
Border Art Factory in Tangier
Making radical political and urban art in Tangier is easy – as long as you don’t criticise, offend or upset either the reigning King,…
The Purpose of Street Art: Saving Humanity, One Bee at a Time
What does street art do? Is it protest? Is it a statement? Is it a tool for social change? The very act of street…
Meet the Many Faces of India: Hugging the Western Coastal Plains
Make your way down India’s coastline of startling juxtapositions; from the frenetic metropolis of Mumbai to the downtempo havens of Goa and Kerala. At…