Date Night in Paris: 5 Romantic Cinemas

When in Paris, you might as well do things the right way; drink at the bistros of the belle époque, buy your vegetables fresh at the marché; bargain your way through the brocantes; and when it comes to going to the cinéma, why not watch your favorite movie stars on the big screens of the…

PARIS: 10 Trendy Restaurants better than Celebrity fly trap, L’Avenue

With Paris haute couture week currently in full swing, American celebrities are flocking into town, including tabloid darlings du jour, Lana Del Rey and Kim Kardashian. …And they’re all being spotted at the damn same place, paparazzi heaven, L’Avenue. Just a few steps from the grand Plaza Athenée hotel with its top designer boutiques, L’Avenue…

The 1920s Speakeasy Club with a Treehouse in the Backyard

We’ve stumbled upon the backyard of a speakeasy club called the Krazy Kat Club in Washington DC, July 15, 1921. It looks like they might have decided to move their staff meeting outside to their treehouse in the heavy heat of July– and nobody is in the mood for business. Every workplace should have a backyard…

Bedtime Reading: The 1960 Official Playboy Club Bunny Manual

This evening, let’s get stuck into the official hand-typed copy of “The Playboy Club Bunny Manual”. You probably weren’t aware that there’s an online association for ex Playboy bunnies where bunnies of the world can unite, find old bunny colleagues, reminisce and most importantly, air all of Playboy’s dirty laundry. Thankfully one such bunny decided to…

FOOD P0RN: Sizzling Summer Recipes

Welcome to yet another mouth-watering edition of Food P0rn! This time we’ll salivating over summer recipes– so overall more refreshing foods, lighter on the tummy and plenty of seaside classics. Enjoy…. Hummus and Avocado toasts with roasted tomatoes Recipe here ::: Saffron Mussels with Cream Recipe here ::: Indian Spiced Roast Chicken Recipe here :::…

The Rock & Roll Cult of Sunset Boulevard

The only Hollywood-based cult of the 60s and 70s that comes to mind is the Manson Family, so when I happened upon this photograph of a secretive but wild group of beautiful young people who strolled around LA in the 1970s wearing colorful gowns, devoted to a Hollywood restauranteur-turned-spiritual leader who had 13 wives, a Rolls…

You’ll never guess who owns this Vintage Pink Lamborghini…

I nearly choked on my marshmallow when I saw this beautiful specimen of automotive machinery painted in pale pastel pink on the New York Times online. And you’ll never guess who this baby belongs to! This one-of-a-kind-why-isn’t-it-mine 1974 Lamborghini Espada belongs to Lorrie Stern, a young-at-heart grandmother of five, living in New Rochelle, NY who also…

PARIS: Shops from another Century

The summer sales have started in Paris so I thought this might be a good time to take a look at how shopping used to be in the French captial. And thanks to Eugène Atget, a French photographer of the early twentieth century who made it his business to photograph the architecture and street scenes…

10 Simple & Cool DIY Ideas for the Weekend

I‘m not here to pretend I’m some kind of crafty DIY blogger that goes around magically decorating my room with a new make-over every week. But I do however know how to spot a super simple DIY project, so easy that you could probably do it while getting tipsy on a bottle of wine, which…

SACRE BLEU! Le Croissant is dying out in France

Is there any French gastronomic icon bigger than the croissant? When the rest of the world thinks of the French, do they not picture us sitting in le café on a cobblestone street with our breton striped t-shirts smoking cigarettes, drinking wine and eating le croissant? And rest assured dear citizens of the world, that…