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  • Getting to the Gateway to the Underworld and Inners of Alexander Binder

    Binder spent three years making these photos, with endless trips down south to Sicily and the Aeolian Islands. Initially inspired by Iceland’s volcanoes, he spent days and nights lurking through Italy’s volcanic wasteland, watching the elemental forces...

  • I Sacrificed a Chicken and Drank Vinegar in the Name of Megan Fox

    As a feminist, I want to love Megan Fox for calling out Michael Bay's sexism, but as a sane human being I struggle to love a woman who considers Red Lobster her favorite restaurant. But eccentricity is a quality we tolerate in male stars, so I decided...

  • I Tested out Three Cambodian Spiritual Practices

    

In the village where I live and work for a small NGO, folk religion is woven into the way locals experience daily life. People swap tips about the best local fortune-tellers and healers. They chalk skulls and crosses on their door frames to protect...

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  • "Power of the Pussy" Takes You Behind the Pole at Magic City

    The YouTube documentary "Power of the Pussy" takes you behind the scenes of ATL's famed Magic City to give you insider insight on the life, art, and hustle of being a stripper at one of the most shouted-out titty bars on the planet.

  • The Ju-Ju Magic of the Miners of Afosu

    I took a trip out to the Eastern Region of Ghana in 2006 and again in 2009 to paint scenes from a small scale illegal gold and diamond mining complex in a town called New Abriem. It’s a place where 19th century mining methods combine with ancient West...

  • The Magicians

    There were two magicians and I hated them with everything in me.

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  • Morning of the Magicians

    Unless you’re religious, a terrorist, or both—a conservative—serious galvanization among “your people” when it comes to bonding over the intangibles of human existence is no small task.

  • Dr. Kobus Jonker: God’s Detective

    In South Africa, they are balls deep in sangomas, or healers. For the most part these sangomas are legit herbalists. There are however a number of bad sangomas, known as baloyi, which are more like dark wizards.

  • Bless This Mess

    There's a city in Veracruz, Mexico, called Catemaco, wherein there dwell a multitude of warlocks.