HeyJaredRave New World
Field notes from the fringes of counterculture, by drugs and nightlife reporter Michelle Lhooq
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COME HANG (opens the original)
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Selamat pagi from Singapore! I’m back on the Little Red Dot visiting family—a semi-annual return to the ancestral lands that never fails to occasion a check-in with alternative scenes brewing in the region. Previous trips have brought me into contact with the nightlife nationalism of Taipei, Singapore’s neo-pagan rave renaissance, and the “indie” era of Thailand’s f
THE HORSESHOE IS THE SYMBOL OF OUR TIME (opens the original)
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THE JIMOTHY RAVE WAS IRL BRAIN ROT (opens the original)
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We have reached the fried part of summer when it’s good to go bimbo—cloudless mind, booty shorts, brain rotting in the sun. Which is why, when I saw that some opportunistic promoter in Seattle decided to throw a rave dedicated to Jimothy, the viral raccoon, I threw up an offer on Instagram to any intrepid raver willing to check out the party—I’d cover the chemical lubricants it took to get through the experience. Writer/ceramist Megan Gannon, who I met among the neo-wooks of Osmosis festival, to
SAUNA BEACH PARTIES AND ROBOT DOG FIGHTS (opens the original)
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