Volume 16 Issue 1
Sunny Side Up
Randy Polumbo is a softly spoken American artist who makes the snoozesome world of modern sculpture seem a hoot a minute.
The Brutal Hills Of Sicily
In the small Sicilian farming town of Niscemi, old women wear black shawls and men carry shotguns in the trunks of their cars. Most of them are used for hunting.
My Obama Hajj
As someone raised on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I have to report that the actual invitation to the 2009 presidential inauguration looked a tad underwhelming.
The Dusty Ground And The Dying Koalas
Australia’s the driest inhabited country in the world, and many parts have been in a state of perpetual drought since the mid-1990s.
The Welsh Suicide Contagion
Bridgend rose to international fame in 2008 when a 17-year-old girl, Natasha Randall, was found hanged shortly after the new year.
Flatliner
It’s 1994 and I’m lying on a cold, hard X-Ray table in the cardiac catheterization room of the Methodist Hospital in Houston.
An Arctic Wave Of Teenage Suicide
Relative to the size of its population, the suicide rate here is the highest on earth. And the most disturbing part of the stats? It is children and teenagers who are driving the numbers up.
Comfort Food
As with everything else they do, the girls in Japan take it just that little bit too far, right up to the point where it’s basically obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Who's Hungry?
On the afternoon of June 12, 1981, a Japanese man named Issei Sagawa walked into the woods in Bois de Boulogne, France, carrying two suitcases.
Who's Hungry?
On the afternoon of June 12, 1981, a Japanese man named Issei Sagawa walked into the woods in Bois de Boulogne, France, carrying two suitcases.
Life In The Jungle
Calais is the closest point in France to the United Kingdom. Besides that distinction, it’s basically sort of a shithole.