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Gone Norf and Girlfriend bring Manchester’s creative scene to schuh
A shopper on Manchester’s Market Street may seemingly have little in common with someone dancing at the Derby Brewery Arms…
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Learning second-hand nostalgia at the End of the Road
I didn’t have any of my own reasons to be emotional about the festival’s close, but I had adopted my new friend’s bittersweet longing just as they had adopted me.
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Seoul’s underground met London’s at Darkclip Exchange 001: ETIC
On a Friday night in Tottenham, DARKCLIP brought Seoul duo ETIC to London for the first edition of Exchange, a…
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A new social currency: ex to x is changing Berlin’s flinta* creative landscape
“I learned to paint instinctively, trusting my body before overthinking the image”: ex to x and Berlin’s flinta* creative landscape.
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Is comedy in ruins london’s only true ‘cult’ comedy show?
“My wife (as a wife) sucks”: London has a niche event for just about everyone, but the spaces that don’t…
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Alexis Stone on his Cher transformation at The Mandrake: ‘surreal and ridiculous’
Following “Cher” around Soho with a gaggle of photographers felt like the golden years of paparazzi again. The sequins, the…
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Gritty photos of Southwest China’s ‘cyberpunk city’
Neon skyscrapers stacked on top of each other on steep terrain, and the people who came from other regions to…
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On the lash with the1989: Italy’s magazine ‘for all the fucked-up children of this world’
“People write to us saying things like, ‘Can I hang out with you guys?’” Not just a magazine but a…
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Portraits from Notting Hill Carnival’s 60th anniversary
The Cold Magazine headed west for the 60th anniversary of Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world’s largest, second only…
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2CPerrea x Arca listening party: a night of queer Latinx maximalism
“Taconeando bajo las luces”: Arca’s ninth studio album XXXXX, and the London listening party hosted by Latinx queer collective 2CPERREA.
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Foot Locker and Adidas Celebrate 60 Years of Notting Hill Carnival With Black British Talent
60 years after the first Notting Hill Carnival festival exploded into the West London streets, the 2026 festival is getting…
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The raves bringing internet nostalgia to the dancefloor
“Nostalgia is the childhood I missed out on because I wasn’t straight”, Mars, the founder of the internet aesthetic rave…
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Dust, dance and disgust at Houghton Festival
I wake with a deep gasp, sweating like a bottom-of-the-bag Peperami sausage inside a tent that is nothing short of…
