Diesel Summer Cultural Calendar: Jetsetting events bring art, music and adventure into your plans

Diesel Summer Cultural Calendar


Advertorial content: Scents are built with an occasion in mind. From the shores of a Croatian beach music festival to ringside at a Muay Thai match on the Hudson River, your perfume is meant to prepare you for the next adventure. In that spirit, we’ve teamed up…

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The Best Things to Do In Los Angeles: 1001 Ideas: Author and LA native Joy Yoon makes the megalopolis remarkably accessible by sharing local secrets in her first ever book

The Best Things to Do In Los Angeles: 1001 Ideas


by Mya Stark At first glance, one might feel that “The Best Things To Do in Los Angeles: 1001 Ideas” has three strikes against it. It’s a book rather than a blog or an app; it’s…

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Conventional Wisdom: World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships: The second installment of Arthur Drooker’s photo series on convention attendees

Conventional Wisdom: World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships


We recently took you to the Association of Lincoln Presenters annual assembly, by way of photographer Arthur Drooker’s camera lens. Drooker has been dropping by some of the convention industry’s most eccentric gatherings in an…

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ARTLANTIC: Atlantic City’s Public Art Spaces: A park, a playground and outdoor exhibition on Jersey’s casino island

ARTLANTIC: Atlantic City's Public Art Spaces


A city forever changing, dotted with many historic attributes: A resort location starting in the mid-1850s near enough to New York City and Philadelphia, the longest continuous boardwalk in the world, the East Coast’s original gambling capital, further popularized by television culture. Of…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Branding Prince George, a Deitch-less MOCA, Mysterabbit and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Grandpa the Pixel Painter Hal Lasko, who now goes by Grandpa, is a 97-year-old former typographer whose medium of choice is Microsoft Paint. Lasko lost most of his eyesight due to macular degeneration but discovered that the computer program could magnify images…

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Artist Darren Cullen: The dark-humoured and controversial Irish artist and his new anti-military recruitment comic

Artist Darren Cullen


by Sabine Zetteler Throughout his career, artist Darren Cullen has forced his audience to question their views of social acceptability and culpability. Citing the “Spitting Image Komic Book” as one of the most formative influences on…

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Interview: Kent Bakke of La Marzocco: Learning about the history and future of espresso in a conversation with the CEO behind one of the world’s most beloved espresso machines

Interview: Kent Bakke of La Marzocco


Named after the fiercest predator of the animal kingdom, La Marzocco—which translates to lion in Italian—is aptly known for their roaring, state of the art espresso machines. But at the factory in Tuscany, things are anything…

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Randy Mamola and Riders for Health: The racing legend brings motorcycles to Africa to increase accessibility to medical care

Randy Mamola and Riders for Health


by Katharine Erwin Randy Mamola is undoubtedly one of the greatest racers to never actually win a world championship. A crowd-pleasing racer with a heart of gold, Mamola’s best known moment was in 1985 with Moto…

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WA State Fire Lookout Project: Photographer Kyle Johnson documents the few remaining Forest Service lookout posts in the Pacific Northwest’s vast landscape

WA State Fire Lookout Project


Few places garner the type of awe and admiration for the abundance of nature like the great Northwest. While its cities continue to produce an impressive crop of creativity, its wilderness remains in part uncharted but ever-enchanting. To keep the heavily wooded region…

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Interview: George Quraishi of Howler Magazine: Soccer’s newest publication takes a look at the sport from the eyes of an American

Interview: George Quraishi of Howler Magazine


by Madison Kahn Howler is a new quarterly magazine aimed at the American soccer fan, entertaining both die-hards and newbies alike. Founders Mark Kirby and George Quraishi launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 that raised $69,000…

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