Hollywood’s Original “Bad Girl”: The Tragic Muse of Kurt Cobain
Even before she was famous, Frances Farmer had a bad girl reputation. In high school,…
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The Lost Romance of Dance Cards
If you’ve been watching Netflix’s sauciest new period drama, Bridgerton, your curiosity might have been…
Before Cher Horowitz had her Computer Closet, Marie Antoinette had the Wardrobe Book
Ask any millennial with a heartbeat for fashion about the 90s cult-classic film, Clueless, and…
A Brief Compendium of the First Girl Groups, Forgotten in Music History
Before the Spice Girs, before Destiny’s Child and TLC, even before the Supremes, there was…
I Wish I Could’ve Partied with the Prince of Saint-Germain
If you were living in Paris during the years that followed World War II and liked…
Travelling Modern Europe with a Victorian Railway Guidebook
Are you looking for a way to travel back in time? Well, we haven’t cracked…
Trolling Nazis (and the world) with Forged Art
The accepted number of authenticated Vermeer paintings today is 34, but that number became mysteriously…
Summer in the Seventies with Andy Warhol
Let’s take a little trip down memory lane and invite ourselves round to Andy’s summer…
Then & Now: The Rolling Stones’ French Villa of Debauchery
In the Spring of 1971, Keith Richards began renting a villa on the Côte d’Azur for…
Smoke, Mirrors & Magic Lanterns: How a Parisian Horror Story Became our First Cinematic Experience
I have a rather curious new addition to the Cabinet and I’m waiting for that…
Turn up the Volume on a Forgotten American Jazz Queen of Mid-Century Paris
Amid the fervent jazz revival that swept Paris in the years following World War II,…
The Beautiful, Weird World of Japan’s Answer to David Lynch
If home is where the heart is, House (1977) is where the mind unravels. The…