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The loudest room in the city lives underground
The small, sweaty clubs were supposed to be finished. They just moved downstairs — and they only let you in if you promise to pay attention.
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Street food is the new fine dining
Why the best chefs are leaving the dining room for a griddle, a pitch and a queue of hungry strangers.
Synths, sweat and the analogue comeback
Analogue synthesisers were meant to be obsolete by 2005. Twenty years on, they are the most wanted instruments in electronic music.
Colour is the new neutral
Lime trousers, tangerine coats and pink everything, worn not as statements but as basics. How colour took over the grown-up wardrobe.
The cinema that refused to close
A market town, a 1930s picture house and 2,300 shareholders. The small story of the Regal is also a blueprint.
Night markets: a field guide
Follow the smoke. Everything you need to know to eat well, safely and widely after dark.
A week with a smart oven
It has a camera, an app and a firmware version. It also makes the best bread I have ever baked. Seven days in the connected kitchen.