WHERE IT'S AT … with Jefferson Hack

In this special Holiday episode of Where It's At... Jefferson Hack sits down with Jon Gray, one of today’s most compelling cultural connectors, to discuess food as a tool for storytelling, activism, and care. Jon reflects on his personal journey from the streets to launching Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-born multidisciplinary culinary collective on a mission to redefine the world's view of food. Poet Aj...

Ruth Rogers is one of London's great cultural connectors, having held the River Cafe for over 40 years, and with her successful podcast, she has hosted, hung out with, interviewed some of the most amazing minds of our time. In this conversation, recorded at her home, originally designed by her late husband, Richard Rogers, Jefferson Hack discusses food as conversation and collaboration. She shares...

In this intimate conversation and first filmed episode of Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack meets with icon Tilda Swinton to reflect on her ever-expanding artistic legacy, shaped by creative relationships that continue to redefine the boundaries of cinema.  Swinton meditates on the alchemy forged when singular minds dance together – from her earliest work with avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman,...

This week on Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack is joined by fashion writer Cathy Horyn.  Cathy Horyn is one of the few great fashion writers who really know their history and still dare to speak their mind. Described as the most feared and fearsome critic in fashion, she’s also one of the most respected by designers and readers alike.  The conversation covers Cathy’s incredible career and co...

This week on Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack is joined by Raul Lopez, founder and creative director of LUAR - the hottest label on the New York Fashion calendar. Raul Lopez has always had an outsized influence on fashion being at the epicentre of the New York underground club and fashion scenes for the last two decades. He shares his story with Jefferson, growing up as a queer Latin boy in Williamsb...

Launching season 2 of Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack is joined by Mark Ronson to discuss his new memoir, Night People. Ronson tracks the characters and legends of the evolution of 90s New York club and Hip Hop culture that made the city hum. He brings us right into the mood and atmosphere of the nights he spent cutting his teeth as a fledgling DJ along with anecdotes about influential figures like...

In the final episode of the debut series of Where It’s At… Jefferson Hack talks to critic, author, curator and artistic director of Serpentine Galleries, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Spanning his early career trajectory, the importance of analysing unrealised projects, video games in contemporary art and the power of public art, their exchange is as pluralistic and wide-ranging as Obrist’s prolific output...

Jefferson Hack is joined by two-time Olivier Award-winning stage designer and artist Es Devlin in a free-ranging and awe-inspiring exchange. Devlin’s collaborators have ranged from U2, Adele and Beyoncé to Sam Mendes and Nicolas Ghesquière, and her sets take on an equally epic scale, with floating platforms, jumbo screens, vast bridges and a giant ring of fire in the Agafay desert in Morocco to na...

Renowned physicist Carlo Rovelli joins Jefferson Hack on this week’s episode of Where It’s At, ten years since the launch of his bestselling book, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, taking on quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. A poet, philosopher and rebel thinker, Rovelli debunks unified theories of just about everything – as such, their conversation expands and zig-zags, illuminating t...

This week on Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack joins New York-based fashion designer Willy Chavarria in celebrating ten years of his joyous, community-building brand. Presenting his packed-out shows in barber shops and episcopal churches, Chavarria has dedicated his designs to celebrating chicano culture, confronting contemporary politics and uplifting the queer community. In this warm and candid conv...

This week on Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack talks to Marina Abramović, one of the greatest artists living today, as she prepares for her upcoming autumn show Balkan Erotic Epic at Manchester’s Aviva Studios. In a deeply moving and candid conversation, the pair discuss divine energy, the artist’s decades-long obsession with pleasure and pain and her “door of secrets” which, once accessed, means she...

This week on Where It’s At, Jefferson Hack talks to three-star Michelin chef Daniel Humm, zig-zagging from his start in competitive cycling (having left home at 14) to his first star and the mushroom trip that inspired his pivot to plant-based cooking at his award-winning restaurant, Eleven Madison Park. Humm’s relentless innovation propels this conversation, touching on what inspired him to found...

In part two of their conversation, Jefferson Hack and Deepak Chopra expand on the topics that have guided Chopra’s life’s work – this time through the lens of his own personal experience. From his addictive personality as a young doctor to the life-changing moment he met the Maharishi Yogi, who inspired him to study consciousness and write his first book – the first of 90 – Chopra reveals his copi...

In a sprawling, dreamlike conversation, Jefferson Hack talks to the Indian-American author, guru and one of the most profound thinkers of our time, Deepak Chopra. Touching on evolutionary consciousness, collective dreaming and quantum biology, part one of this epic discussion offers an immersion into the many maps of Chopra’s revolutionary mind. He emphasises the importance of meditation and self-...

Jefferson Hack talks to renowned mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. Between his best-selling book Entangled Life and the extraordinary time-lapse documentary Fungi: The Web of Life (with otherworldly narration by Björk), Sheldrake has been instrumental in explaining how fungi shapes our understanding of life on earth. As well as its enormous impact on both environmental and mental health, Sheldrake deep...

Jefferson Hack talks to the tousle-haired ex-editor of Vanity Fair Graydon Carter about the heady days of publishing on the occasion of his new memoir When the Going Was Good . Carter recounts the founding of the 80s satirical Spy magazine, his friendships with author and journalist Christopher Hitchens and power agent Sue Mangers, the running of Waverly Inn (the historic West Village tavern he to...

Back in 2023, Jefferson Hack visited legendary music producer Rick Rubin at his home, a converted former monastery in the Italian countryside. In this archive episode they delve into the origin of Def Jam Recordings, the impressive diversity of artists he’s worked with – from LL Cool J to Red Hot Chili Peppers to Adele, Johnny Cash and the Beastie Boys – and his uncanny ability to harness the crea...

In her first interview directly after the pandemic, award-winning author, singer-songwriter, and poet, Patti Smith, spoke to Jefferson Hack about her life, travels and dreams, including her first trip to New York in 1967. Their wanderlust-fuelled conversation touches on her spiritual guides – from Sylvia Plath to Jean Genet and Arthur Rimbaud, whose reconstructed childhood home she bought in 2017...

Ever wonder what really drives the people shaping culture today? Join Dazed co-founder Jefferson Hack on Where It's At for deep dives with today's most revolutionary thinkers in art, science, music, fashion, and beyond. Get the real story on their inspirations, hurdles, and the moments that made them who they are. Episode one of Where It's At is out on Wednesday, 16 April. Hosted on Acast. See aca...