May 23

BBQ Season Essentials : Improve your next yard party with a pyro’s dream lighter, designer croquet set and more

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BBQ Season Essentials


Stateside, Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer. Elsewhere, the weather does the deciding. Either way, in most of the Northern Hemisphere the mercury is steadily rising and barbecue weather is finally here. To celebrate the first few warm days of the season, we selected eight items that are…

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May 23

Eric Yahnker’s Sticks & Drones at Paradise Row, London: From President Obama to Miley Cyrus, the artist’s new show spans the good, bad and the ugly of America’s global influence

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Eric Yahnker's Sticks & Drones at Paradise Row, London


LA-based artist Eric Yahnker (one of CH’s favorites) takes his sharp and satirical view of American culture and politics across the pond for his first solo show in the UK…

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May 22

Interactive Education with 1000 Days of Syria: A text-based web game, set during the first months of the Syrian uprising

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Interactive Education with 1000 Days of Syria


When journalist Mitch Swenson ventured into the north of Syria in September 2013, he witnessed the tragic depths of the war first-hand. Most of the conflict coverage centered around the cities, but Swenson soon found that…

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May 22

Laurel Braitman Reads Pets’ Minds: The author of “Animal Madness” explores the psychology of animals and explains how they are just as much individuals as humans are

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Laurel Braitman Reads Pets' Minds


Senior TED fellow and science historian Laurel Braitman delivered one of the most engaging talks at TED’s 2014 conference. Her topic? Animal psychology…

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May 21

World Science Festival 2014: Making science accessible and relevant, this year’s program features a civil discussion of the Big Bang, pie-o-physics and Paul Rudd as Einstein

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World Science Festival 2014


While the younger generation may have had entertaining outlets like “The Magic School Bus” book series or “Bill Nye the Science Guy” to make science relevant and accessible, lucky New Yorkers of all ages—especially adults—have the …

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May 21

Études Studio on Crossing Creative Lines: Fashion, publishing, a creative agency and a new pop-up are all in a day’s work for this hybrid collective

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Études Studio on Crossing Creative Lines


Crossing lines and breaking boundaries is nothing new in the creative community—in fact, it’s largely what the industry is built upon. Communications designers become brand engineers, painters design textiles and ceramicists dabble in industrial engineering. However, few…

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May 21

Alex da Corte’s Delirium I Exhibition: The artist reinterprets a poem written by a teenage Arthur Rimbaud in 1873 for this striking show in Copenhagen

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Alex da Corte's Delirium I Exhibition


The talented Alex da Corte (who was born in New Jersey and lived Caracas, Venezuela for some of his childhood) says that his stunning new show “Delirium I” is an adaptation of “A Season in Hell”—a poem…

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May 19

Offscreen: A Magazine Dedicated to the People Behind the Pixels: Technology and the people behind it in a decidedly human context

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Offscreen: A Magazine Dedicated to the People Behind the Pixels


It’s a universal truth that digital technology and the internet have inhabited major portions of our lives and economic systems. From keeping in touch to paying bills and even improving the world around us, technology is at the core of nearly everything we…

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May 19

Live Fast Mag’s First Annual Print Issue: The LA-based publication kicks it up a notch with their first offline edition

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Live Fast Mag's First Annual Print Issue


Vivianne Lapointe isn’t only a CH contributor, but happens to be the founder of LA-based website Live Fast Mag. Over the past few years, Lapointe has gathered many different voices to cover the focus topics…

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May 16

Michael Jang’s Vintage Family Photos: Candid shots of the photographer’s Chinese-American family in the ’70s on show in LA

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Michael Jang's Vintage Family Photos


While SF-based photographer Michael Jang has taken famous black-and-white shots of Jimi Hendrix, Ronald Reagan and David Bowie, he’s become well-known for doing what people do everyday all over the world: taking photos of their family….

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