Mikey DeTemple and John Slattery explore local solutions to a pressing global issue: Water pollution.

The Independence Issue

Out Now!

Huck's 10th anniversary special celebrates a decade of self-rule - and the outliers who define what it means to be truly independent.

Ride > Surf

Forbidden Trim: A surreal B-movie-inspired surf spectacular

Surf cinema goes Grindhouse

Director George Trimm dispatches surfers Alex Knost, Jared Mell and Harrison Roach on a suicide mission to eliminate a global criminal network.

Art & Culture > Photography

The photographer deconstructing white privilege in South Africa

Race in the Rainbow Nation

Alice Mann created a storm when she photographed her own wealthy suburban community in Cape Town and highlighted the black domestic workers who enable their lives of luxury.

Art & Culture

Why the brutalist architecture of Britain’s housing estates matters in 2016

They never were failed utopias

The debate around social housing and the Brutalist architecture that embodies it has been raging for half a century. Now war is being waged against these estates, but social need is as great as ever before.

Perspectives

Is there room for old boys like Allardyce in today’s beautiful game?

Big Sam’s Bollock-Drop

There's no doubt that Sam Allardyce's apparently dodgy dealings were a fuck up, but the Telegraph's sting is reminiscent of a game long populated by duckers and divers. Is there space for these old boys in today's game?

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The American surfer who helped kickstart a UK cold water surf revolution

Lessons from a legend

Finisterre co-founder Ernest Capbert shares what he learned from a decade at the pioneering surf brand and why surfers make great entrepreneurs.

Art & Culture

Twenty-one non-white writers on life in Britain today

The Good Immigrant

What is it really like to be a person of colour living in modern Britain? Twenty-one writers discuss this reality, and share what it means to them in a new crowdfunded anthology fittingly titled The Good Immigrant.

Perspectives > Activism

Should the media pay activists to talk?

From Where I Stand

Activists and campaigners do what they do for free, often because they need to. But talking to journalists about experiences and expertise is labour. Should they be paid?

Art & Culture > Music

DAMEHT: The punks keeping NYC’s rebellious spirit alive

Resurrecting an ‘80s counterculture icon

DAMEHT team up with artist, photographer and Lower East Side legend Clayton Patterson to release a limited edition version of the iconic Clayton Cap.

Art & Culture > Music

The beautiful faces of Afropunk London

A celebration of diversity

This Saturday, Brooklyn based Afropunk festival hit London for the first time, a much needed celebration of black culture in the city and beyond.

Perspectives > Activism

We watched homeless squatters take an old seaside nightclub

Acting on homelessness

Darren Davies' high-profile occupations of derelict buildings in Southend are forcing a debate around the lack of housing and support for homeless people in the area.

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The psychedelic punk creating a safe-haven for artists

Acid Priest

When photographer Lee Kirby stumbled across a bedraggled man in designer clothes, he found himself opening a pandora’s box that would change his life. But for Lee Trosclair, renegade-turned-muse, the story is just beginning.

Kiki: The wild dance movement formed out of radical resistance

Strike a pose...

The Kiki scene is blowing up out of New York. But veterans of the voguing community know it’s no passing trend. This is a subculture backed by some serious history – and it’s got the political bite to prove it.

The South African skate punks sparking a cultural revolution

A Soweto (Re-) Uprising

South Africa is still reeling from decades of divisive rule. In Soweto, the township-turned-city that first triggered the fight for civil rights, a new counter-culture is burning. It’s raw. It’s punk. It doesn’t give a fuck. And it’s writing its own history.

The graffiti accounts you need to follow on Instagram

Tag the globe

In honour of Utah & Ether, the Bonnie and Clyde of graffiti, who broke probation to go on a worldwide tagging spree, here’s our pick of the best graffiti Instagram accounts.

The story of Royal Trux: a cult band that re-shaped rock

Veterans of disorder

Royal Trux struck gold when a major label offered them a million dollars and full creative control. But as maverick outsiders, the band proved too eclectic for mainstream tastes. Now, 15 years after breaking up, they’re ready to admit that some journeys never end.

Celebrating creative independence in Middle Eastern cinema

Using film to affect society

Inspired by our profile of renegade director Shahrbanoo Sadat in Huck 56, we're saluting other filmmakers who have fought to shed light on a misunderstood part of the world.

The breakdancers and ballet artists reclaiming Palestine

Physical graffiti

From breakdancing to ballet, a new wave of Middle Eastern dancers are finding creative ways to restore the one thing they feel they’re being denied: freedom of movement. These are their stories.

The fiercely independent women making music you need to be listening to

Refusing the conventional

Huck spotlights the female musicians blazing a trail on their terms, celebrating the likes of Bat for Lashes, Kim Gordon, Sleater-Kinney and more.

DJ Shadow: Five creative principles to live by

Things I Learned Along the Way

DJ Shadow believes in independence at all costs. Twenty years on from his seminal album Endtroducing, the production pioneer talks us through the mentality that’s shaped a singular career.

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Things I Need to Say

Tommy Guerrero hits the road with his brand of funk rock

No Mans Land European Tour

Congratulations Spike Jonze!

Huck celebrates the Oscar-winner

The Last Taboo: Why are there so few openly gay pro skaters?

Out and proud

A meaningless conversation with life navigator Ian MacKaye

Sticking to the side roads

Andrew Reynolds

Minimalist Man

Shedding light on Tokyo’s underground noise scene

It’s gonna get loud

Thierry Noir

Painting Walls

Boogie

Shooting the Streets

Women in Skateboarding

Being a Lady (Who Shreds)

Could this solve Montauk’s water crisis?

Into The Sea

The soul of Elvis Presley lives in Thailand

Three Kings of Bangkok

A Finnish skateboarder’s snow-covered sanctuary

Too hot? Watch this

Skating South Africa’s Valley of a Thousand Hills

Zulu skate paradise

Huck Reports: Saying No To Coal

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Misfit City: The renaissance riot grrrls of Tacoma

Forever punk

Boots on the Ground: Volunteers of the Refugee Crisis

Helping refugees at Europe's frontier

Surfer Jamie Brisick finds solace in the water

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