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Never Again Would There Be a Toga Party Like the Lost 1920s Delphic Festival

Every summer we run into the same problem: too many amazing festivals, too little time. Then we caught wind of the long lost Delphic Festivals, which makes every concert we’ve ever been to pale in comparison to its over-the-top, 1920s interpretation of Greek merrymaking. Think Coachella, but on steroids… The Delphic festival was so lavish…

What Became of the Ancient Greek City they Found in Afghanistan

What was once essentially a completely Greek city in the depths of Afghanistan, was lost under the desert sands for almost 2,000 years, hidden from history until its sensational rediscovery in the 1960s. It was christened by archeologists as Ai-Khanoum, or ‘Lady Moon’, after an Uzbek princess who had lived on its rocky summit. But…

How to Bury an Entire Museum

When German forces took Athens in April 1941, they expected to find thousands of centuries-old artifacts in the National Archaeological Museum, Greece’s largest museum. Instead, the neo-classical building was totally empty, besides the archaeologists and guardians still on duty. Officers asked them where the relics were hidden and “they answered enigmatically that antiquities are where everybody…

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 home inside manmade Neolithic caves carved into the sandstone cliff, she sang her folk songs, “under a starry dome…beneath the Matala Moon.” It was the 1960s and a community of backpacking hippies had settled in Matala, a remote corner of…

Life on Mars Looks Rather Chic, Doesn’t It?

There’s been a heinous misconception about life on Mars. We’ve been told it will be dusty and lonely, a woebegone frontier to be endured. But then we found Nader Khalili (1936-2008), the designer who spent his days bettering what we’ll just call interplanetary architecture: sidewalks for the Moon, eco-villages, and Mars friendly houses that feel…

Nearly 50 Years On, a Forbidden Seaside Ghost Town is about to Re-Open

Imagine a millionaire’s resort; one to rival St. Tropez, Italy’s Portofino, or Miami’s South Beach – abandoned overnight. Imagine the luxury hotels suddenly emptied of their guests and left to slowly decay, the boutiques, bars and nightclubs reclaimed by nature, sunbathers replaced by sea turtles nesting on the deserted beaches and the once vibrant holiday…
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A Greek Poet’s Abandoned Summer Refuge

Deep in the Peloponnese hills of Monemvansia, past a little turquoise olive grove, I found a forgotten place. As the sun sets over the hills, following the sound of trickling water, I come upon a hidden Spring below the road in the shade of the trees. It lies at the entrance to the remains of…

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The Secret City on the Peloponnese Rock

It just looks like a big old dry rock, doesn’t it? No visible signs of humanity on its barren landscape. Impressive, but not much to it. We should probably just keep going…. Drive along the coast of the mainland, through the small port village of “new” Monemvasia, and yep– it still looks like a giant…

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Vintage Muse du Jour: The Greatest Diva of them All

It’s 1970, and for once, the world’s greatest soprano is silent. Interviewer David Frost has just asked her, “Who really is Maria Callas?,” la Divina takes a moment to answer. “There are actually two people in me,” she says, “There is ‘Maria’ and there is the ‘Callas’ that I have to live up to.” But which one must…

Princess Bonaparte’s Orgasmic Quest

Every family has its black sheep. For the Bonaparte clan, it was Napoleon’s great grandniece, Princess Marie (1882-1962). She was not only a pioneer of psychoanalysis who actually saved Freud from the Nazis, but a staunch advocate for women’s sex research on some pretty taboo topics. You see, she was on a war path —…
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