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Rumpole often goes to prison to visit temporary or permanent guests of Her Majesty. Brixton in south London or Wormwood Scrubs ("the Scrubs") in the city's west already look grim on the outside. Their even starker interiors can be viewed by arrangement with the police - just throw a brick through a jeweler's window to get their attention. Any fan sufficiently dedicated to follow this procedure won't flinch from the dreary pilgrimage to two other Rumpole haunts: the Uxbridge Magistrates' Court and the supremely ordinary south London suburb of Penge, site of one of our hero's greatest...
Eugene Hutz is drawing glances. he's in London's Brixton Market, amid the sensory barrage of exotic aromas, vibrant garb and competing bass lines, dressed in a purple jacket and trying on ladies' wigs. When he finds one he likes, he lets out a strange yowl, twirling the fake blonde locks around his head in celebration. But it's not Hutz's clothes or wig that have people staring. Locals in this bustling, ethnic stew of a neighborhood have seen it all before. No, people are looking at this lanky man with the lavish handlebar mustache because they recognize...
...Carpathians to Siberia to meet his hero, seven-string guitarist Sasha Kolpakov. For Hutz, his Roma heritage is more than just hobby geneaology. "When you talk to gypsyologists they will always try to downplay the romantic side of the stereotype," he says, preparing backstage for a show at the Brixton Academy. "But even if you downplay it, it will still be a hundred times more romantic than being a regular motherf...
Twenty-seven teenagers were murdered in London last year by youths wielding guns or knives. All but a handful of the dead teenagers were black or Asian. More than half of all black Britons live in London, many in hardscrabble housing projects such as the Moorlands Estate in Brixton, south London, where Solomon Wilson, 23, and his friend Nathan Foster grew up. Wilson says he was "no saint" when younger, but he benefited from a happy home life. "I take my hat off to my mum," he says. As he saunters along Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, he's trailed...
...asymmetrical haircuts. While there is conformity in their uniformity, the phenonemon is more than a trend. Indonesian teens are finding more kids like themselves on Myspace and Facebook - alienated from their local peers, many find solace solidarity in sharing the alienation of their global soul mates in Boulder or Brixton. Kids all over the world now have access to the same music, inspiring imitation and moving product - and local stations in Indonesia's main cities are catching...