The Last Great Beatnik Café
Behind every generation of revolutionary writers, there’s usually a time-worn café. Hemingway had Paris’s La Closerie…
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She Was India’s ‘Frida Kahlo’
The bold red lip. The dark, enigmatic brows. Leaning up against the wall with her…
After Dark at the Shakespeare & Co in Paris
Paris is just one of those places in the world where talented people get together…
She’s the 1970s Platinum-Selling Transgender Artist We’d Never Heard Of
It’s 1989 and Wendy Carlos is giving in an interview to the BBC surrounded by…
Get Back to Nature this Fall at these Airbnb Fairy Compounds
There’s no return from the orbit of SunRay Kelley. Not that we’d ever want to…
The Lost Art of Decorating with Shells
In Margate, on the south-east coast of England, there is an underground grotto lined with…
Sneak a Peek at the Facebook of 400 Years Ago
Social media may be the poster child of the 21st century, but the ideas behind…
A Dozen Celebrity Digs That Remind us to Go Big or Go Home
As long as folks have had money, they’ve had the ability to realise interior designs…
A Secret Living Museum in Paris
This is the kind of place where you can find the original wall panels from…
13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXIX)
1. Miniature Worlds inside Pocket Watches & Pendants By Gregory Grozos 2. Lough Key, a…
Honeymooning Around the Earth in an Amphibious Jeep
My heroes are up there with the Amelia Earharts, Aloha Wonderwells, Ernest Hemingways, and the…
Escape to Sarah Bernhardt’s Seaside Fortress
This weekend, let’s escape to the seaside paradise of Morbihan, France, to peak inside the…