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THE NIGHTLIFE VIBE DROUGHT
A plague of parasites has descended over clubland
May 21 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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THE NIGHTLIFE VIBE DROUGHT
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DOING POPPERS AT BRUTALISMUS 3000
Short, stupid, and rancid—just how we like it
May 5 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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DOING POPPERS AT BRUTALISMUS 3000
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A POST-COLONIAL HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE
Countercultural freaks built a hippie utopia in Goa, India—but for who?
Aug 16, 2024 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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A POST-COLONIAL HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE
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KANNA IS A LEGAL PLANT MEDICINE THAT YOU CAN SNORT
Ready to explore a new high?
May 22, 2024 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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RAVING THROUGH THE TRUMP YEARS
The New Yorker's Emily Witt on reclaiming your mind from the political machine
Nov 7, 2024 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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RAVING THROUGH THE TRUMP YEARS
FUCK YOUR BURN
An interview with the climate protestors behind the Burning Man blockade
Sep 14, 2023 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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WHO IS ‘RAVING’ FOR?
Real freak hours with rave theorist McKenzie Wark
Apr 12, 2023 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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WHO IS ‘RAVING’ FOR?
CAN A NIGHTCLUB BE BOTH UNDERGROUND AND UPSCALE?
Singapore's new party playground Rasa aims to elevate Southeast Asian nightlife—but its "no fast techno" music policy has come under fire by some in the…
Apr 1 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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CAN A NIGHTCLUB BE BOTH UNDERGROUND AND UPSCALE?
AYAHUASCA GUMMIES
What a time to be alive
Jun 19, 2024 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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AYAHUASCA GUMMIES
BORAT MEETS THE MATRIX
Ancient folklore meets the cybernetic future at Ozora, a psytrance festival in the Hungarian woods
Aug 14, 2024 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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BORAT MEETS THE MATRIX
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8 LSD BLOTTERS THAT DEFINED PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE
This is the acid hall of fame
Sep 23, 2024 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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8 LSD BLOTTERS THAT DEFINED PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE
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WTF IS 3-MMC, BERLIN’S WEIRD NEW CLUB DRUG?
The post-2000s party drug landscape is shifting
Sep 29, 2022 • 
Michelle Lhooq
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