cheree franco , writ (er @) large
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Once introduced as a hippie journalist who believes a dance party can solve any problem. Reporting from Pakistan, Mississippi, Arkansas and Standing Rock. Mostly at VICE. Feminist. Travel notes & photography from Iceland, Mexico, Italy & around. Sometimes talking about music & stuff that would interest Gen-X -cusp- millennials.

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Underground Brooklyn: Lady Magma Loves Wild Yaks

Nearly ten years ago, in the sweltering July of 1999, New York and I made our acquaintance. Having successfully knocked off a second semester of undergrad, I pooled funds with a kid I’d known all of three weeks and headed to the Konkrete Jungle in pursuit of all things dark, urban, seductive and rhythmic (by which I mean hip-hop and drum-n-bass weeklies, record-shops and street art.)

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