10 Unusually Cool Places to Sleep
This morning I had a bit of a field day on one of those websites…
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All Aboard Tito’s Train: A Dictator’s Time Capsule of Luxury Travel
In today’s internet rabbit hole adventure, I ventured far from home and ended up on…
The Stylehunters of Soviet Russia
In communist Russia of the 1950s, members of a provocative subculture put their own original…
Cape Town’s Lost District, through the Eyes of its Transgender Darling
Once upon a time, at the southernmost tip of Africa, nestled in a hollow between…
The “Unknown” Photographer who Documented the Cool Kats of Mid-Century Mali
At a New York art exhibition in the early 90s, three black & white photographs hung on the white walls, credited to a photographer “Unknown“. The portraits of fashionably dressed people and families taken between 1940 and the early sixties were actually the work of a nationally renowned photographer in Mali. Outside of his country however, Seydou Keita […]
The Hippie Caves of Matala that housed Joni Mitchell
In a sleepy fishing village on the island of Crete, where Joni Mitchell had found herself a nomadic…
Hide Away at the Home of Picasso’s Favourite French Poet
With the first signs of an early Spring, perhaps you might find yourself looking towards…
The Lost Victorian Mansions of Downtown LA
This is a picture of a Los Angeles that no longer exists. Affectionately knick-named “the…
The Greatest Open Air (and floating) Show on Earth
Our return to the world of theatre can’t come soon enough, but there is one…
The Party Castle Forgotten in the Jungle for Half a Century
There are some places in the world that make you weak at the knees with…
Curiosity du Jour: Antique Intaglio Seals
When we stopped writing letters, it wasn’t just our penmanship that went down the toilet,…
Hollywood’s Beguiling Queen of Pre-Code Cinema
If Norma Shearer doesn’t ring a bell like other legendary names of the silver screen…