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My Little Secret Montmartre

This is not Montmartre, the cupcake hilltop village of Paris where Miss Amélie Poulain resides. Today we escape to a different corner of the city in the 20th arrondissement with just as much charm and just as many steps. Upon first discovering it, my faithful walking companion duly declared, “It’s like a little Montmartre!” So…

The Last Globemaker

Ever wondered about the world behind those spinning globes that fascinated you so much as a kid?! No, me neither, but a mini documentary about Peter Bellerby and his London-based company that manufactures fine handcrafted globes is an unexpected delight. How does one get into the globe-making business? Bellerby, started out when he made one for his…

My Little Lighthouse Hotel

For anyone else who has ‘stay overnight at a lighthouse’ on their list of things to do, meet me at the Saugerties Lighthouse, a two hour drive from Manhattan in the Hudson Valley. Ditch the car and walk a half a mile up the peninsula where the lighthouse will finally emerge from the tall grass, cut…

There’s Something about Moffy

Meet Moffy. She recently did her first-ever magazine shoot for POP magazine, who put her on their front cover and called her ‘the face’. “Sounds like another meaningless fashion mag story title to me!” says the photographer who shot her for the story. It probably is meaningless to put labels on Moffy and make all…

The Subculture of Japanese Trucker Art

‘Lit up like a Christmas tree’ doesn’t quite cover it. Moving pieces of art, embellished with massive neon lights and bling-tastic chrome; something between a science fiction robot and a Las Vegas arcade. “Decotora” trucks (translation: trucks decorated with illuminations), are the emblems of an unlikely subculture to emerge in the last decade out on the…

My Victorian Camping Trip

Once upon a time, before Instagram, a group of young friends went on a camping trip and captured some pretty great memories. More than a hundred years have passed, but time has stood still for these smiley Victorians in black & white – almost as if a friend has returned home from their weekend out of…

The Lost Victorian Mansions of Downtown LA

This is a picture of a Los Angeles that no longer exists. Affectionately knick-named “the Castle”, this elegant Victorian house was one of many in the once prestigious neighbourhood of Los Angeles, known as Bunker Hill. Downtown LA does have history, it’s just buried under gleaming high-rise office blocks and strip malls… Despite once attracting…

Freedom Riding on a Harley: The 1950s All-Black Biker Gang

“While Rosa Parks took her historic bus ride, and as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton and the Black Panthers stood bravely for equal rights, the East Bay Dragons MC risked life and limb during days when a black man riding a Harley chopper was a revolutionary act.” The East Bay…
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