Light Culture

Light Culture

By David HershkovitsSociety & CultureBusinessArts
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Light Culture episodes

  • Underground Icon Carlo McCormick
    The enfant-terrible of New York’s legendary 80s downtown scene is now all grown up. Though the former Paper magazine Senior Editor and High Times columnist is still a bit of a contrarian, his advocacy of an alternative art history with graffiti, street, psychedelic and outsider art at its center is now widely accepted as visionary.

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    43 min
  • CannaCuisne’s Miguel Trinidad and Doug Cohen
    He’s best known for putting Fillipino cooking on the map, but Miguel Trinidad’s cannabis cuisine side hustle is equally groundbreaking. A foodie’s delight, Trinidad’s 5-course cannabis infused meal is an elegant dining experience known as the 99th Floor, an experience guaranteed to stimulate you in both body and mind. I speak with Miguel and his business partner Doug Cohen.

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    50 min
  • Team Human’s Douglas Rushkoff
    “I got exposed to digital at the same time I was exposed to fantasy role playing games and psychedelics and rave culture.” So says media critic Douglas Rushkoff of Team Human, a podcast and book that make a case for a culture that honors human beings. No brainer? Not really. Here’s why.

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    49 min
  • Broccoli magazine founder Anja Charbonneau
    Cannabis is the new vertical of cultural production, much of it created by and for women. Among them Anya Charbonneau’s Broccoli magazine. We talk about her female-centric enterprise, why print is still a viable medium, identity v. lifestyle, where to buy a cannabis bouquet, psychedelic art, and the secret history of woman in cannabis.

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    42 min
  • Futura’s Next Act
    Navy veteran. Original Fun Gallery graffiti artist. Toured with the Clash. Buddy of Virgil Abloh. Collabed with Gortex and Commes des Garcons. Designed the livery of the new BMW M2. And there’s much, more learned about the multi-faceted international art star Lenny “Futura” McGurr.

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    52 min
  • Dr. Peter Grinspoon’s Long, Strange Trip
    Dr. Peter Grinspoon got strung out on opiates, lost his license, recovered, wrote a book and returned to Harvard Medical School where he’s become one of the most important voices speaking out on cannabis, health and wellness.

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    41 min
  • Cannabis+Sex=Cannasexual Ashley Manta
    Ashley Manta has made integrating cannabis into our sex life the focus of her work. Whether you’re feeling Valentine’s Day or not, it behooves you to listen and learn from someone schooled in the art of love and found that in the right place at the right time cannabis and CBD can provide the spark you’ve been looking for.

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    33 min
  • Swoon on Art, Life and Psychedelics
    Working with psychedelics under the care of a psychiatrist has helped the artist known as Swoon address her personal trauma and expand her creative potential. Swoon exploded onto the street art scene with wall pieces beloved by her peers as well as the random passersby lucky enough to encounter them. Now an art world force with museum shows and exhibitions, the personal has become political and social with the environment, earthquake disaster relief in Haiti and opioid addiction among her preoccupations.

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    46 min
  • Hash Master Frenchy Cannoli
    We travel back in time with Frenchy Cannoli whose mission is to spread the word about the Lost Art of the Hashishin. Having learned how to make hash from the ancient masters of Asia and the Middle East, he now lives among the beleaguered growers of California’s Emerald Triangle as Big Agra threatens their legacy, livelihood and way of life.

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    47 min
  • Xeni Jardin on Jeffrey Epstein, Cancer and Cannabis
    Xeni Jardin is a one-time straight edge who discovered cannabis after being diagnosed with cancer. A digital media commentator, tech culture journalist and co-editor and contributor to the website Boing Boing, she is also at the forefront of investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile who famously funded dubious scientific research and died in prison under suspicious circumstances. We talk to the former National Public Radio, Wired magazine and Wired News contributor about Epstein, cannabis and cancer and the New York tech scene of the 90s.

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    48 min

About Light Culture

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Hi, my name is David Hershkovits. As a founder of Paper magazine, I have been a long-time supporter of cultural disruptors from the alternative worlds of skate, hip hop, graffiti and streetwear scenes…