The Modernist Maharajas
Theirs is a fairy tale with all the elements that titillate and intrigue us mere…
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All Aboard! The Lost Romance of the Sleeper Train
Books, songs and movies have long-romanticised what it’s like to travel overnight on a sleeper…
Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl Who Became Barbie
So it turns out Barbie’s original design was based on a German adult gag-gift escort doll named…
Signed, Sealed, But Not Always Delivered: The Lost Art of Letterlocking
“I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning” is a…
India’s Paradise of Street Graphics
I found a Flickr account today that had my eyes going like a pinball machine.…
India’s Overlooked Concrete City of Oz
When you think of Indian cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur, you might think of…
Miami of India: The Forgotten Capital of Art Deco
Mumbai; the gateway to India, home of Bollywood cinema, infamous for its slumdogs and shanty…
What David Bowie Learned from the Gugging Psychiatric Institution
By 1994 David Bowie’s musical career was in a bit of a quiet phase, let’s…
Birkin and Gainsbourg: Dusting off the Family Album
For anyone who still dreams of the swinging sixties with its wild child chain-smoking rockstars…
The Fantastical World of Mingering Mike, the Imaginary Legend of Soul
When you were young, what did you want to be? An astronaut, a princess, maybe…
Journey to the North Pole in a Hot Air Balloon
This is the forgotten story of a brave (and perhaps slightly mad) scientist and his…
A Compendium of Abandoned Greenhouses
Today I opened my computer and typed in my chosen search words of the day:…