Downtempo, Dub, World & Trip-Hop Set | Kindled Love ft Kaleekarma | Piknik EP 008
For Episode 008 of Piknik, we’re joined by Kaleekarma, who brings a slow-burning, hypnotic journey through downtempo, dub, trip-hop, and psychedelic grooves.
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Renaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the University of Chicago).
Inside a Soulful 1930s Cottage Nestled in London’s Countryside | Design Notes
Interior designer Tamsin Saunders welcomes House & Garden into her cottage tucked away in the riverside town of Richmond. Tamsin gives us a tour of her once-neglected London home, which…
Inside a Thameside London Apartment Inspired by the English Countryside
Interior designer Louisa Greville Williams welcomes House & Garden into her riverside flat in London. A rural idyll runs floor to ceiling inside Louisa’s flat: from the chintzy sofa in…
The Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Family That Tried To Escape History
In 1978, a team of Soviet geologists working deep in the Siberian taiga came across something they never expected to see: a house. As it turned out, they had stumbled…
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
“Every bombed village is my hometown”
poem by nikita gill inspired by a James Baldwin quote
Artist France-Lise McGurn on Making Painting Less Precious
France-Lise McGurn was born in Glasgow in 1983. She studied her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee, in 2005, her MA at the Royal College of Art, London, and her…
Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites
This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran
Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.
His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran’s infrastructure from attack.