Beginning with a speculative letter written aged 12 to actress Lillian Gish for a school project – the star of The Wind (1928) and frequent muse of controversial film director D.B.Griffith – Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse embarked on a stream of correspondence with Hollywood’s vanguard that would continue for the next 30 years.Here they share the st…

28 May 2014For many of us, gender is something that we think of in black and white terms, a binary of male and female. In the womb, we are prescribed gender identities, before the nucleus of our personalities are even formed. But gender is something more than anatomy: it is something more than physicality. It is beyond the simple, limited terms of …

27 February 2014In his hometown, author Nathaniel Rich takes a murder mystery tour where the cops are the bad guys...Written and read by Nathaniel RichEdited & produced by Barney RowntreeAv Port Magazine

What's the best thing about Louisiana's finest city? The jazz? Nope. It's the bread made with love, care and a whole lot of contamination. Nathaniel Rich reveals the secret of sandwiches in our second 'Letter from New Orleans' by the celebrated author.Read by Nathaniel RichEdited & produced by Barney Rowntree…

Port regular Nathaniel Rich introduces the first of his Letters From New Orleans collection, serialised in Port. In this first letter, written for our inaugural issue, Nathaniel takes us to post-Katrina New Orleans where life may have changed, but the attitude towards it remains resolute…Av Port Magazine

The last issue of Port considered the future of the printed magazine, talking to the editors of longstanding publications like the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair. Magazines are coming to terms today with how print and digital complement each other, but in the online world, is the role of the editor under threat? Do we now live in an algo-w…

In 1963, photographer Dan Budnik sat behind Martin Luther King Jr. as he delivered his most famous speech. 50 years later, he sat down with Port’s Barney Rowntree to discuss the stories behind his images documenting the American Civil Rights struggle, including the pivotal Selma to Montgomery march of 1965, which will be included in his Kickstarter…

31 July 2013Prologue: Senior editor Matt Willey introduces this month's podcast on Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane, opened in 1869 on Seneca Lake, New York State. It's mission, to "Treat the chronically insane with gentleness and understanding". Nearly 50'000 patients lived at Willard during its 127 year history and roughly half died there.Wh…

1 June 2013Prologue: Senior editor Matt Willey introduces this week’s theme – dubbing in French cinema. Since the 1930s, France has remained one of several European countries that choose to dub foreign films with the voices of their own, French-speaking actors. It might get bad press here in the UK, but in France, dubbing is considered an art form……

8 May 2013Prologue: Port senior producer Matt Willey introduces the second Port Podcast on the theme of Resolution in Film.Part One: Neil Brand is a London based pianist composer and writer. Best known as an accompanist for silent film, he talked to us about the importance of resolution for film music...Credits:Produced by Barney RowntreePort openi…

10 April 2013Prologue: Senior editor Matt Willey introduces the first Port podcast on the role of silence in films.Part One: Silence is a vital element within film, but one which we rarely give thought to.We hear from writer George Michelson Foy on how the noisy experience of modern living led him in search of the acoustic dream – absolute silence.…