Rave New World

WHO'S AFRAID OF THE NEO-WOOK?

At Osmosis festival deep in Oregon weed country, a new strain of psychedelic raver emerges

Nov 5 • 

Michelle Lhooq

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September 2025

TRENDING: Ketamine as a Cheat Code

Plus: new-wave weed drinks, soft clubbing, and decoding the psychedelic guru Terence McKenna

Sep 24 • 

Michelle Lhooq

15

2

DOES ‘THE CORTEGE’ LIVE UP TO THE HYPE?

A “ceremony of grief” summons folklore and ritual, but fails to conjure more than empty spectacle

Sep 12 • 

Michelle Lhooq

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4

August 2025

META'S CYBER NECROCIDE

Suspended in the bardo between online death and rebirth, I found ghosts in the social media machine

Aug 28 • 

Michelle Lhooq

23

5

RAVE NEW WORLD AT THE BERKELEY ALEMBIC

A psychedelic lecture jam—and our first reader survey!

Aug 1 • 

Michelle Lhooq

24

1

July 2025

CHINGA LA MIGRA

On the ground at a massive ICE raid in LA's MacArthur Park

Jul 10 • 

Michelle Lhooq

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THE PSYCHEDELIC ILLUMINATI GOES TO CHURCH

To worship the Godfather of MDMA's ghost

Jul 7 • 

Michelle Lhooq

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1

June 2025

THE ONLY SLOP HERE IS YOU

A kunt-ceptual theory of raving in an era of countercultural cosplay

Jun 13 • 

Michelle Lhooq

43

1

May 2025

"Our Warehouses Are Our Imploding Temples"

the minds and musical lores of the ambient artists playing at Cuntillion

May 28 • 

Michelle Lhooq

25

1

THE NIGHTLIFE VIBE DROUGHT

A plague of parasites has descended over clubland

May 21 • 

Michelle Lhooq

131

7

DOING POPPERS AT BRUTALISMUS 3000

Short, stupid, and rancid—just how we like it

May 5 • 

Michelle Lhooq

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4

April 2025

WEED AUNTIES 🌿👩🏻

Mogu Magu’s stoner chefs are reclaiming Asian cannabis culture—one epic dinner party at a time

Apr 18 • 

Michelle Lhooq

 and 

Christina W.

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