Let’s Check in with Alaska’s Strangest Town Living under One Roof

If you thought life in times of Corona couldn’t get any stranger, try living out 2020 in the town where the majority of the residents all live in one single building. Whittier, Alaska was founded in the mid 1950s, built as a military port and barracks for the US Army during the Cold War. When…

Update from his Ghost Town: Time Capsules, Mine Exploration & Disaster

It’s been 7 months since our Zoom Date with the guy who bought a ghost town and 8 months since he started living there alone as the pandemic took hold of the United States. A lot has happened in the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo since. We’ll start with the bad heartbreaking news. The…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXXX)

1. Imagine this Road Trip Get in loser, we’re __________. Favourite answers: going to four-seasons total landscaping—near the adult bookstore, across from the crematorium Dropping out of art school. Going to help Melania decorate the Christmas tree Found on Plastik, by Ertan Atay. 2. Remember when Floods couldn’t stop us from Dining Out? View this…

The Tik Tok Generation Needs a Movie about The Abernathy Kids

In 1910, two boys, Louis and Temple Abernathy decided to cross America by horseback without adult supervision, from Oklahoma to Manhattan. They were just 10 and 6 years old. To get back home, they bought a car and drove it while their horses returned by train. This true but forgotten little adventure story struck me…

Meet the Girl from Ohio who Became a Star in 1960s Paris

America’s loss is France’s gain. I’ve had Nancy Holloway playing on repeat this week. Nancy who? Oh, only one of the biggest names in mid-century French pop culture; an idol of the Yé-yé music craze. She’s remembered in France as “la Perle Noir”, the ‘black pearl’ of the sixties with a distinctly American accent that…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXXIX)

1. The Telephot, 1918 “The future instrument on which the name “Telephot” (from the Greek tele: far, photos: light) has been settled, is supposedly an apparatus attachable to our present telephone system, so that when we speak to our distant friend, we may see his likeness not on as an immovable picture, but we will…

Dream Home du Jour: Live like a Victorian Shopkeeper

A charming slice of London history in the heart of Spitalfields Market has recently hit the market and stolen our hearts. The three-bedroom property includes a Grade II-listed shop on the ground floor, which retains the original Victorian signage, advertising the services of a milliner by the name of A. Gold, which operated at 42…

Who Remembers the “Studio 54” of Texas?

Coming of age in Dallas in the 1980s was synonymous with two words: Starck Club. The notorious nightclub brought scandal to the bible belt with an injection of European excess at the hands of a then-unknown French designer named Philippe Starck. In an abandoned concrete warehouse in the old part of town, past some forgotten…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DXXVIII)

1. Just a a “dombra” performance in Lake Köbeituz, Kazakhstan View this post on Instagram A post shared by fancy nothing (@fancy_nothing) on Jul 31, 2020 at 7:09am PDT The musician is 23-year-old Marzhan Kapsamat. Lake Köbeituz is a salt lake that turns pink every several years. The dombra, also known as dombyra is a long-necked…

Who wants to Live in this Old Café in Paris?

At the foot of Montmartre, a Parisian café, or at least the ghost of one, has recently found its way onto the property market. Dating back to 1902, locals haven’t been able to get their caffeine fix here for a few decades, but the cheerful facade is still marked by old-world lettering on the windows,…