A sample of our next issue out in mid March

Here, there and everywhere

LAS VEGAS • BERLIN, MARYLANDGEORGIA O’KEEFFE • NEW MEXICO

ARIZONA • NEW HAMPSHIRELOUISIANA • MIAMI • NEW YORK

BOSTON • SEATTLEMARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

UK £12. #5 | SPRING 2019

NEW ORLEANS • UTAHCONNECTICUT • VIRGINIA

BADLANDS, SOUTH DAKOTA

Bryan: brewer, bar owner and Berliner.

First We Take

Berlin,

Then We Take

Chincoteague

The coast outside Washington D.C. is a well-kept secret. After a few fantastic days in the underrated US capital, we head for the sandbanks out by the ocean.

WORDS BY JONAS LARSSON • PHOTOS BY ANDERS BERGERSEN

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A perfect porch in Chincoteauge.

To Dive for

SLOOP TAVERN, BALLARD, SEATTLE

WORDS BY JOE TOBIASON • PHOTO BY JONAS LARSSON

Though you are less-likely to see “Oof Da!” bumper stickers, The Sloop is still home to fishermen after a long day on the Puget Sound, and is one of the few true dive bars left in the rapidly gentrifying and modernizing Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. This traditionally Scandinavian neighborhood has seen most of the old guard disappear in favor of modern cuisine and trendy shops.

The Sloop was originally opened in 1952 and moved to its current location in 1977. They are best-known to Seattleites as the home of the Sloop Yacht Club (a weekly social club that meets year-round and races in the summer) as well as their “Slooper Sized” beers, which deliver 34 ounces of your favorite suds. It’s also one of the few places where you can play a round of pool or darts in an area where every square foot seems to be quickly turning into condos.

2830 NW MARKET ST, SEATTLE

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A Sit-Down with

Mr Vegas

I managed to land an interview with Oscar Goodman, legendary mayor of Las Vegas. Mr Goodman has been in Las Vegas since its beginning and he knows everything worth knowing about this city. “Arrive on time and think about what you ask,” I was told before the meeting. Of course I arrived late and, of course, I asked the wrong questions.

WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JONAS HENNINGSSON

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Any summer road trip through Arizona is bound to be sizzling hot. We enjoy that kind of thing, so we left Vegas behind and set our sights on cowboy towns, ghost towns, and, of course, the mighty Grand Canyon.

WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JONAS HENNINGSSON

102. 103. 104. Degrees, that is. I’m anxiously

watching the thermometer creep higher. 104 degrees Fahrenheit is 40 degrees Celsius. But the heat is only going to get worse over the next few days, so it makes sense to head out now. And so, I leave Las Vegas. Swooshing past the concrete giant that is the Hoover Dam, and the largest reservoir in America, Lake Mead. The Hoover Dam marks the border between Nevada and Arizona. I continue on towards the sunset and the mountains on the horizon. Tumble weeds, big, tangled masses of grass and other vegetation, are playing tag on the highway and across the plains. This is tumble weed country.

The landscape grows more and more desolate as the miles pass by. Once the sun makes up its mind to drop down into the desert, it happens quickly. The sky has soon turned a steely black, except for the glittering aura of Vegas, which lights up the night sky in the distance to the east; I can still see traces of Sin City in my rear-view mirror.

Kingman, a mining town, is 3,000 feet above sea level, but even so, it is located in a basin surrounded by mountains. The landscape here is strange, hostile, and inviting all at once. Signs promising “Gas” and “Grub” indicate what visitors to these parts want more than anything else: a full tank, a full stomach, and to be on their way. A sign

Las Vegas

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PORTFOLIO

BY PHOTOGRAPHER CALLE STOLTZ

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