fronting

• EDITOR’S LETTER: goodbye luxury hello life
• FROM WINNIPEG WITH LOVE: Guy Maddin, director of already-cult film The Saddest Music in the World, on the allure of the middle of nowhere
• ARE YOU CONTENT: should architects give rein to their egos and do-it-all
• PARTY TIME EXCELLENT: Tank parties at Chez Castel, Paris
• LIAR LIAR: band’s on fire
• TANK TV: last month Tank.tv was visited by 90,000 people. Xerxes Cook explains what you’ll find when you log on
• THE VORTEX: what The Face tells us about the “Vortex” of ideas
• WIERD SCIENCE: artists have been in love with science for centuries. Ruby Baker wants to re-ignite the flame. she’s found a champion in the Wellcome Trust
• LASER: how science followed artistic will
• BASIC INSTRUCTIONS: a conversation with gza about just what it is that makes his rhymes so nice
• BEAM ME UP: photography by Valerie Stahl
• LONDON SCHOOL OF JAZZ: Pablo Flack is one half of House of Jazz and like Mick Jagger, he used to study at the London School of Economics. unlike Mick he actually listened to his lecturers
• THE LUX: Corto Moltedo has leather goods in his blood. that’s probably why he has designed a luxurious line of accessories. welcome to the house of the rising son
• THE FULL BRAZIL: sea breeze. photography by Henrique Gendre
• KAPPORINHA: getting drunk on fashion in São Paulo
• WE BEAR SPIRITS: it’s no picnic for bears in Tirana
• CHOOSE WAL MART: Wal-mart stores may be taking over the planet, but in some US cities they’re still banned. while New York makes up its mind, James Westcott just wants them to hurry up and open
• SAILOR MOON: photography by Sean + Seng
• EASTERN PROMISE: photography by Jet Tozer
• PARIS: power classicism, wetsuits, skirts, camp outrage, jock shock: ideas are back
• MILAN: urban glamour and the call of the wild
• OSCAR’S WILD: boys, religion and pvc – Oscar Quiroz’s menswear collection reads like a guide to fetish
• HART FELT: Thomas Engel Hart is trying not to be a legend
• SIVIL RIGHTS: photography by Ben Kelway art direction and styling by Thom Murphy
• SHOOTING STAR: sometimes a look’s so fresh, it’s like a meteorite hitting
• RADIOACTIVE MAN: James L. Acord – the only individual on Earth with a nuclear licence
• MOUSTACHE OF DESTINY: Saddam Hussein had one; so did Hitler. ergo, facial hair is proof of evil. not so, says Mark Rappolt, as he puts away his razor and pleads the case for whiskers
• THESE CHILDISH THINGS: Billy Childish on aunthenticity and anti-coolness
• BITMAP: Layla Curtis tears up road maps so she can go her own way. in her latest work, she’s been to America. call it the United States of Layla