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EAT YOUR GREENS

The word “legend” gets thrown around a lot. Maybe it’s the infiltration of English slang (“Wot a fookin’ legend!”) or just internetforward hyperbole, but regardless, anyone who makes a funny TikTok or a half-decent vegan cheese sandwich nowadays could be classified as one.

June 1, 2024
FRED PESSARO

EAT YOUR GREENS

Served fresh in photographer Chris Boarts Larson’s Slug & Lettuce

The word “legend” gets thrown around a lot. Maybe it’s the infiltration of English slang (“Wot a fookin’ legend!”) or just internetforward hyperbole, but regardless, anyone who makes a funny TikTok or a half-decent vegan cheese sandwich nowadays could be classified as one. But Chris Boarts Larson? An actual goddamn legend.

Larson started the zine Slug & Lettuce in 1986, concluding with its 20th-anniversary edition in 2007. Although the zine featured a host of articles ranging from radical parenting to veganism/vegetarianism to politics, it was all held together by incredible photography of the underground East Coast punk and metal scenes shot by Larson. She would later helm a column for Maximum Rocknroll. This recurring feature, just like the pages of the legendary (I said it) zine, dripped with a love for the genre, its people, and music en masse.

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