BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Once upon a time, a mining town stood strong on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The town – Bodie, California – was discovered in 1859, and for the next 50 years it was home…
Expression & Culture
The Adulting School is opening soon – and people are both excited and pissed off
BY: JESSICA BEUKER I can vividly remember my first week of university residence. Well, the parts that weren’t seeped in vodka and jagger bombs anyway. Our floor had one laundry machine, which was operated by our student cards. One evening…
Paris is spreading the love by selling their old love locks to raise money for refugees
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The City of Love has found a new way to spread the love. The famous trend of attaching locks to bridges in Paris has been a symbol of love for citizens and tourists since 2008. Last year,…
Shane Mauss is Using Stand Up Comedy to Promote the Therapeutic Benefits of Psychedelics
BY: TIM O’NEAL Describing a psychedelic experience to someone is a lot like telling them about the dream you had last night. It’s impossible to put the visual images, profound emotions, and staggering new connections and insights into words, and…
This group of teens transformed a homeless encampment into a tiny home village
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY A group of dedicated and altruistic teenagers has managed to build tiny, mobile homes for homeless citizens in Seattle, Washington. The teens were led by the non-profit organization, Sawhorse Revolution, with additional help from several construction, architecture,…
Hunter S. Thompson’s widow is making his personal cannabis strains available to the public
After years of legal battles over the proper ownership of Hunter S. Thompson’s (HST) estate, his widow, Anita Thompson announced that she will be making Hunter’s personal strains of cannabis available to the public. Having spent more than ten years…
10 vintage airline posters that will make you wish you experienced travel in 1970s America
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Before the technology and social media we have today, airlines made posters to advertise their flights. These posters show a simpler time filled with sunshine, pastel colours and happy travellers. Designed by Sweney in 1974 – Arizona…
Trash-filled shrine dedicated to a saint known for her breast milk hosts over 500,000 pilgrims a year
Nestled deep in the Argentinean desert, there is a town-sized shrine dedicated to Difunta Correa, a woman believed to have breast-fed her newborn child even after her own death. According to legend, during the Argentine Civil Wars in the mid 1800s,…
In a war-torn city, this untouched 142-year-old hotel is a little piece of preserved history
BY: AISHA ILYAD One of the many great and historical remnants of the past Lebanese and Roman ruins is a hotel that was built in 1874 and is still open today. The hotel has never been closed, not even for…
Take a peek inside the technicolour castle that has been abandoned for more than 2 decades
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP When you hear the word “abandoned” do you picture a broken-down house on the side of a highway, long forgotten by a family that once inhabited it? Do you think about a decrepit building that is now…
Millennials are using slam poetry to vocalize their issues- and the results are gut-wrenching
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE Slam poetry is a form of artistic expression that broadly resembles dancing or acting. Speakers take the stage and perform, pouring practice and passion into the piece with the hope that the audience will take something meaningful…
Haunting images of Japan’s abandoned Disney-inspired theme park
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Welcome to Dreamland. The paint is chipped, the buildings partially gutted and the faces of once smiling characters are now cracked and haunting. Weeds creep in from all directions, wrapping around steel, while their roots sprout new…
This is the youngest American woman to ever travel across every country in the world
By: Zoe Melnyk For many of us, a big adventure is a summer in Europe or a mission trip in South America. In society, travel is seen as a luxury. It’s a vacation that, if you’re lucky enough, might happen…
The Smithsonian of Cocks: a trip inside the Icelandic Phallological Museum
BY: ADAM THRUSH Remember that kid in class who was always sketching dicks onto his desk? Or maybe the one that simply never stopped talking about them? You may not have expected that a child with such an obsession could…
Why I needed to work a shitty, mind-numbing job in order to find my passion
BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY On a cold November afternoon in 2014, my graduating class and I gathered in our high school cafeteria for a Graduation Information assembly. Suddenly the moment that we had been anticipating for four long years was now…
This man tracked down strangers he photographed 40 years ago to recreate the photos
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Punks, kids eating ice-cream, policemen on duty and lovers bidding farewell. These are some of the images paramedic Chris Porsz captured in the late 1970s and 1980s. The amateur photographer spent his free time wandering the streets…
Fuck top 40- this music made from vegetables is all you need to listen to today
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Being told to stop playing with your food may have been a common request in your home growing up. A saying which usually means to stop merely fussing with your food has been taken more literally for one…
I’d rather be childless than a mediocre mom
It doesn’t matter how far we’ve come when it comes to women’s rights and equality. We’re consistently regressing when it comes to views on femininity. A woman’s biological susceptibility to bear children makes those who chose voluntary childlessness considered, well,…
This interactive map is your guide to every single music festival in the world
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In the last decade, music festivals have grown significantly in popularity. What was once considered a pastime of the hippie culture – grown out of notable music festivals such as Woodstock – has gone on to become…
This is what it’s really like to be a sugar baby
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Sugar dating: In return for a “mutually beneficial arrangement” (fun, friendship, gifts, money, travel and possibly sex), a young woman, known as the Sugar Baby provides “the girlfriend experience” to a wealthy, generous older man, the Sugar…