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This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to finish this article without feeling an overwhelming urge to break out in your most ridiculously posh English accent. Two years ago, restaurant critic Simon Davis bought a 1966 Routemaster from a garage in Hemel Hempstead. The double-decker London icon [...]
It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed too risky and ultimately rejected by the US Navy. Bond then turned to French diving/ filmmaking pioneer Jacques Cousteau and his ‘Calypso’ diving team, who accepted the challenge, never before attempted by man, to build an underwater colony where divers [...]
Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina Green and moved across the bay to Belvedere– it’s safe to say it was no ordinary moving day for the Knowles-Moffitt Mansion on July 3rd, 1962. Sawn in half, the Victorian mansion sits on a barge waiting [...]
Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be yours … if you’re ready to cough up anything from $5000-$15,000 … for a bicycle. But it’s so much more than just a bicycle! Behold the holy grail of bikes, the Spacelander, a fiber-glass design by Benjamin Bowdon that [...]
The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. New-York fashion photographer, played by Astaire, sets out to find a “new face” for the high fashion magazine Quality and soon enough discovers Audrey Hepburn working as a bookstore clerk in Greenwich village, [...]
Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and performed on the streets for money. One day, while sitting at the famous Café Deux Margots on the boulevard Saint-Germain, she was discovered by an advertising agent who asked her to do some photos. She would soon find [...]
Imagine a place where caveman bedding, lime green carpeting and hotel rooms named after cultural ethnicities went unquestioned; where the sound of electric waterfalls and squeaking plastic leather seating was welcomed. My friend, you don’t have to imagine anymore, now that you know there’s a place where your inner-kitsch can be free. Welcome to the [...]
On June 3rd, 1968, Andy Warhol was shot three times in his infamous studio, known as the Factory, and survived. The shooter was actress and member of Warhol’s entourage, Valerie Solanas, pictured right and above with the artist. On that day she also shot Mario Amaya, an art critic, who received minor injuries, while Andy was so [...]
In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay depicting the [...]
John Lennon would later tell a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine that he and Dylan had done heroin that day, recalling they were “both in shades, and both on f**king junk, and all these freaks around us [...] But it was his scene, that was the problem for me. It was his movie. I was on his territory, that’s why I was [...]
Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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This is so brilliantly British, but I’m warning you now, you probably won’t be able to
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It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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Pretty girl bullsh** aside, the latest release from LA-based crooner known as Banks, is like one
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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Imagine a place where caveman bedding, lime green carpeting and hotel rooms named after cultural
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It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle
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With Justin Bieber currently embroiled in his first drug scandal (don’t ask me how I know
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In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a
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Okay, comparisons are cheesy but I do like to get your attention! Wild Belle is a brand new indie
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Anyone that saw the September Issue will know who Grace Coddington is and probably fell in love
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So it’s not yet 11am here in Paris and I’m pretty much wasted on some brandy tea that I
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