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Levi's, the IFC, and the Sundance Channel have been producing a series of short videos on Braddock, Pennsylvania, a struggling former steel town GOOD started covering in 2008. We're publishing a few of them as part of a partnership with Levi's. Episode four looks at UnSmoke Artspace, a new facility to cultivate the arts in Braddock.
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There are nine episodes in total. They're nuanced and artfully made. You can see them all here.
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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
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How Cherokee Is Real Cherokee? Mixed-Race People Discuss Elizabeth Warren
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In a Majority-Minority Nation, Numbers Aren't Everything
Cleveland’s uphill battle for its reputation has been going on for years—at least since 1969, the year its Cuyahoga River infamously caught fire...
The international tour of Bicycle Film Festival events is underway. You have until April 1 to submit a short or feature film for consideration.
Portraits of Braddock, Pennsylvania: somewhere between urban decay and urban renewal.
A new website makes it easy to trade your art for another artists. Free art!
Each year around this time, mysterious red hearts pop up in cities across the country. We're collecting your photos for a Valentine's Day slideshow.
Lost cities. Enormous treehouses. Islands covered in deadly snakes. Crystal caves. Bio-luminescent grottoes. Secret passageways. Underground...
Peter Murray-Rust is a chemist, a reader in molecular informatics at the University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill...
“It took many years to get to the point where black people in South Africa accepted that organic was different and valuable."
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. Read more of the guide here. People talk a big...
Cash-strapped Czech towns have found a solution for dealing with speedy drivers: Female police officers in mini-skirts.
An interactive multi-year map of regional homeless populations shows you how many are on your streets and how that's changed since 2005.
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts is obsessed with place and culture.
The Atlantic is the latest to serve a dish of Alice Waters backlash. Prepared by Caitlin Flanagan, "Cultivating Failure" asks whether Waters's...
As Brisbane, Australia, experienced floods of up to fourteen feet last week, one guy made a video of himself canoeing into his local McDonald's.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is conducting a homeless census. Find out how to pitch in.
The Class of 2010 is matriculating into an economy with 20 percent unemployment for people between the ages of 15 to 24. Though, as a story on...
World renowned artists are heading to South Los Angeles to collaborate with students and visually give voice to social and political issues.
The Wooster Collective talks to the New York-based street artist Martin Sobey about his work. This is the first installment of a new weekly...
Yesterday, a statue of a man with very skinny legs became the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction in the world. Giacometti's walking...
Visitors will experience art at every turn at the new 2,995-room Cosmopolitan hotel and casino.
