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How Bay Area post-punks Creative Adult overcame competing artistic visions
Music

How Bay Area post-punks Creative Adult overcame competing artistic visions

Creative Conflict: The Making of ‘Fear of Life’ — Short documentary explores how Creative Adult’s five members came close to all-out war before completing sophomore album, ‘Fear of Life’.

Written by: Atina Dimitrova

Dan Plunkett gives us a tour of his East Bay Skatedom
Skate

Dan Plunkett gives us a tour of his East Bay Skatedom

Huck x Levi's® — Skate Mental lifer Dan Plunkett offers a view of SF as seen from Richmond, his adopted ’hood in the northeast corner of the Bay. Here, in the latest post from 'Lines Through The City' – a collection of skateboarding and cycling stories produced by Huck in collaboration with Levi's® Skateboarding™ – Dan shares how he and a group of friends have carved out their own nice in East Bay.

Written by: Maxwell Klinger

The female cyclist who rode 2,000 miles across America alone with a broken shoulder
Culture

The female cyclist who rode 2,000 miles across America alone with a broken shoulder

Riding solo in to the heart of America — After crashing on the first day of the solo Trans Am Bike Race across America, cyclist Laura Scott, got a far more profound experience of the country and its people.

Written by: Laura Scott

My journey to becoming the first black female pro cyclist
Bike

My journey to becoming the first black female pro cyclist

Huck x Levi's® — New Jersey’s Ayesha McGowan, now based in San Francisco, is on her way to becoming the first black female pro cyclist in the history of the sport. Here, in the first post from 'Lines Through The City' – a collection of skateboarding and cycling stories produced by Huck in collaboration with Levi's® Commuter™ – Ayesha shares the secret behind her unconquerable determination.

Written by: Ayesha McGowan

The Travel Diary: Smoking joints and shotguns in the 21st century Wild West
Activism

The Travel Diary: Smoking joints and shotguns in the 21st century Wild West

What you see along the way — Deep in an Oregon desert, a community seeking freedom and respite from the demands of 21st century American life gathered to smoke, to share, and to celebrate.

Written by: Sean Aaron Bowers

Behind the scenes on a DIY punk tour around the globe
Music

Behind the scenes on a DIY punk tour around the globe

A photo diary — Denmark's DIY trailblazers Yung share their tour adventures, shot by frontman and creative powerhouse Mikkel Holm Silkjær.

Written by: Alex King

Vanishing relics from America’s golden age
Photography

Vanishing relics from America’s golden age

Abandoned by the roadside — Photographer Ryann Ford discovered the lost world of rest stops while road-tripping along historic Route 66. So she set out to document them across the country before they disappear.

Written by: Alex King

Explore the rebellious fringes of US culture with Unplanned America
Film

Explore the rebellious fringes of US culture with Unplanned America

The make-it-up-as-you-go-along travel show returns — Unplanned America is the DIY adventure series that explores the most far-out subcultures in the land of free. We reached out for the lowdown on Season 3.

Written by: Alex King

How government-backed, billion-dollar lotteries exploit those most in need
Activism

How government-backed, billion-dollar lotteries exploit those most in need

Big money, bigger crisis — Some call it the "stupidity tax", others a waste of time. For many poor, addicted Americans, the lottery is a matter of necessity, even while it's costing them billions of dollars each year.

Written by: Adam White

Photographer Alec Soth on the importance of being a beginner
Photography

Photographer Alec Soth on the importance of being a beginner

Playing Around, Trying Stuff Out — Huck editor Andrea Kurland catches up with great American documentarian Alec Soth about his impressive, constantly changing career, during his first UK retrospective at the Science Museum, London.

Written by: Andrea Kurland

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