Never Again would there be a Costume Party quite like the 1903 Winter Ball
When the Russian Imperial family threw a party, they didn’t do “low key”. Even with…
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Vintage Muse du Jour: Peggy Guggenheim, Patron Saint of Art & Sex
You probably know Guggenheim– the name, the museums, the collections– but do you know the…
10 Remarkable Things Hiding in the Attic
An attic is the ultimate guardian of secrets; a hiding place for all sorts of…
We’ll Call her Story a Real-Life “Handmaid’s Tale”
She escaped the Gestapo twice – a glamorous socialite, fashion columnist, pianist and mother of…
A Time Travelling Greenwich Village Studio Hides an Incredible Art Collection
Wait for no muse. Make a habit of working all the time. Let your wooden…
Love, Espionage and Alien Vibrations: Tales of a Soviet Music Machine
What do Lady Gaga and Lenin have in common? They’ve both played the theremin– the…
The Secret Career of David Bowie’s Back-Up Singer
Nobody could do camp quite like Klaus Nomi. He left the downtown New York club…
The Other English Royals
I‘m feeling terribly British these days. Of course, I’m not, and I now live across…
The Paris Dandy Bringing Back Art Nouveau with a Bang
You know Pierre Marie, even if you don’t think you do. You know the arabesque…
The Night We Found ‘Sleepy Hollow’s’ Jack ‘O Lantern City
Every October in the woods not far from Sleepy Hollow, and yes, it’s a real…
Did Elvis have a Secret Fetish for Vampires?
In our usual perusal of the internet’s nethers, we kept finding trails that pointed to…
Paris’ Dusty Diary : A Peek Inside the City’s Most Secret Library
Guarded by a fortress of medieval walls cut from thick ominous sandstone, Les Archives Nationales…