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In the Dumps

While the emerging tourism trend of “poorism” has come under attack by critics, a glimpse of Phnom Pen’s garbage village unavoidably leaves Westerners with their priorities challenged.

By Danny Gold

Issue 7 Editors' Note

The Subterraneans

By Last Exit Staff

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The Subterranean Democrat

A rabble-rousing militant and foe of corruption, Hon. Mike Walsh was the city’s most successful radical politician before the Marxists perverted American left-wing politics into a parlor game.

By William Bryk

How We Are

Photographer Joseph Rodriguez has spent his career seeking out the world that exists in the shadows of where we feel comfortable.

By Paul Menchaca

Moshing to Battles in Brooklyn. (Photo by Nate Dorr)

Back Underground

When New York City music subcultures find new rocks to crawl (and thrive) under. (Photo by Nate Dorr)

By Philip Henken

Off the Beaten Path (Photo by Sandra Koponen)

Off the Beaten Path

In the last strip of wilderness left in Manhattan, a handful of outsiders eke out a primeval living off the radar.

By Sandra Koponen

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Narco Non-News

When a plane linked to the CIA crashed in the Yucatan jungle last year, it suggested the drug trade and its vast profits are not necessarily relegated to the underworld. (Photo by Andrew W. Sieber)

By Lito Elio Porto

The Appleby Horse Fair. (Photo by Iain Francis)

Against the Stream

Welcome to Appleby Horse Fair, the temporal favela which establishes itself once a year in northern England as the epicenter of the British Gypsy life.

By David Grocott

5 Questions

Cal Orey

Cal Orey describes herself as earthquake sensitive, and claims to have successfully predicted quakes in California and Nevada by studying her seismically intuitive pets and her own physical reactions to underground activity. The author of The Man Who Predicts Earthquakes: Jim Berkland, Maverick Geologist talks to us about syzygy, animals behaving bizarrely, orgasmic ear tones, and the (sometimes) friendly competition between earthquake sensitives and predictors.

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Vladimir Keilis-Borok

On the heels of our conversation about predictions with earthquake sensitive, Cal Orey, we now speak with Vladimir Keilis-Borok, professor in residence at UCLA’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Keilis-Borok, who is also the research group leader at the International Institute for Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Moscow, discusses complex systems, prediction algorithms, and forecasting the 2008 presidential election.