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Museum of Friends
museums

The Art in This Museum Was Donated for Free

Nestled in a small Colorado town is one of the best contemporary art museums in the state. Its collection didn’t cost a dime.
The Podcast Team June 10, 2025
The glass-ceilinged atrium of the Bradbury Building was inspired by Edward Bellamy’s utopian literature.
architecture

The Bradbury Building Featured in ‘Blade Runner’ Was Inspired by a 19th-Century Utopian Novel

The Los Angeles office building draws heavily on the futuristic architecture described in Edward Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward.’
The Podcast Team May 29, 2025
Jarrow, England

The Spirit of Jarrow

A bronze sculpture immortalizes a historic 1936, 26-day-long march for economic relief.
Quezon City, Philippines

UP Carillon Tower’s Original Bells

Student protesters used these bells as symbols of defiance in the early 1970s.
Paris, France

Fourier's Fourth Apple

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.
Site of the First Congress of the Russian Communist Party
Minsk, Belarus

Site of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' First Congress

The secret meeting held in this building would forever change the world.
List

7 Places to Eat, Drink, and Overthrow the Establishment

Raise a glass at these former favored haunts of some of history’s biggest movers and shakers.
Diana Hubbell March 7, 2022
Newchurch-in-Pendle, England

The Last Clarion House

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.
San Bernardino, California

Mitla Cafe

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.
In 2012, this Cuban restaurant popped up in downtown Helsinki.
restaurants

On Restaurant Day in Helsinki, Anyone Can Open an Eatery, Anywhere

By making everything from ceviche to ice cream, city residents show off their cooking chops.
Karen Burshtein September 6, 2019
The many heads of social justice.
Alexandria, Egypt

Tamr Hena Museum

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.
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Le Bachelor takes a break while arranging new merchandise at Sape & Co
Paris, France

Sape & Co

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.
food

How the Women-Led 'Bread Boycotts' Changed 20th Century Food Pricing

Andy Wright February 15, 2016