Results for: 'drugs'

Culture

Deep Sniff: poppers and the pursuit of pulsating pleasure

Adam Zmith’s new book explores the history of poppers, from its medicinal properties to its hedonistic centre stage in queer culture. Aaaaand inhale...

Life

The police are giving out free weed vapes

Working alongside medicinal weed advocacy group Cancard, the forces are trialling a new scheme to reduce the smell of cannabis in social housing.

Culture

In photos: the sweat-soaked ecstasy of British clubs

Contact, a new photobook by Harry Hawkes, documents the intoxicating bodies gathering in clubs post-pandemic, all in the name of human interaction.

Style

Five of Gregg Araki’s most fashionable films

The cult director brought Generation Alienation to the screen, with costumes that reflected the anxiety, nihilism and rebellion of ’90s youth.

What does cannabis look like in the 2020s?

The Face guide to the 2020s: Willie Mack is the co-founder of cannabis enterprise Think BIG. Here he talks global legalisation, weed-infused skincare and innovation with virtual reality.

Culture

Nights of Violence: love and grief in the face of addiction

Artist Tan Gillies mixes moving image, painting, sculpture and photography in a soul-bearing new exhibition tackling mental health, domestic abuse and the hard road to getting clean.

Culture

Ewen Spencer on the styles, subcultures and pure hedonism of British nightlife

The photographer’s new book, While You Were Sleeping, presents unseen photos from London’s clubs between 1998 and 2000. Here, the great Geordie describes the dancefloor’s pre-millennial magic.

Life

Opioid crisis: how the UK will be affected by the Taliban’s poppy ban

The Taliban is clamping down on heroin production. UK experts warn this could lead to an explosion of dangerous synthetic opioids.

Music

100% BAYLI: Meet Brooklyn’s genre-defying rising star

She sings about her love for sushi, isn’t afraid of being vulnerable and makes bops for the it-girl that resides in all of us. Now, BAYLI is back with another intimate single, Think of Drugs.

Culture

What the internet’s favourite Substack writers think will happen this year

Instagram-surrealism, Jeffrey Campbell Litas, custom-made drugs and finding new ways to entertain ourselves: our favourite Substack writers more weigh in on the future of everything.

Music

CrasHing Around: An interview with ScHoolboy Q

The rapper maintains focus after drugs and death nearly knocked him off course.

Life

Teenage Kicks: Manchester

The Face finds out what young Mancunians love about their city.

Culture

Euphoria’s Israeli origin story

Before it was an international smash-hit HBO show set in California, Euphoria was a drama about messed-up middle-class kids in Israel. Here’s how the obscure original compares – and why it was cancelled after one series.

Culture

Learning to Feel: how Tan Gillies transformed pain into art

Jackson Payne and Jack Layfield’s new short film tells the powerful story of artist Tan Gillies who, against all odds, beat drug addiction, domestic violence and a mental health nightmare.

Music

Belfast rap group Kneecap: “Our music is provocative, but it’s a mirror to society”

Since 2017, the controversy-baiting trio have nurtured a DIY Irish-language music scene. Now, they're on the cusp of an international breakthough, and their drug-addled biopic has won an award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Culture

‘County Lines’ tells harsh truths about how gangs target the most vulnerable

Review: Henry Blake’s debut is a powerful, eye-opening story of child exploitation.

Music

How do young Muslims feel when rappers reference Islam?

Hip-hop artists have been celebrating the religion in their songs for decades. But recent controversies have got Muslims wondering where the line needs to be drawn.