We don’t do Daylight Savings Time at COOL’EH. No, when winter comes we huddle up next to the cast iron furnace, rub our hands together (fingerless gloves are key!) and sit in the dark, telling tales. With that in mind, please allow us to present the DARK issue of COOL’EH magazine. And oh, how dark it is! We show you the dark side of high-stakes youth basketball and get a crash course in photojournalism from someone who has been through almost every war zone in the world during the last thirty years. We do the science on exactly what dark matter is and you can find out what it’s like to hunker down in snowbound Canada for a whole winter. From an east coast perspective, it is simple to view Arizona and Southern California as easygoing fun in the sun, but the rap duo HUMAN SUIT shows us the dark side. Writer and journalist Houshang Asadi exposes the depravity of torture under the Iranian regime, while Trevor Paglen explains exactly how one manages to photograph government secrets and “black sites”.

We didn’t stop there though: Pretty Lights talks about his new record, Glowing In The Darkest Night; Jeremy Lawson lives his art in more ways than one; Laurie Savage buries you alive, or maybe it’s a resurrection; the shotgun formation casts an ominous shadow over the 2010 NFL season; Boogie shoots demons; and our staff picks the ten “darkest movies” ever. Cut the lights and say your prayers.

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