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Stop Everything and Check out the new Wes Anderson Bar

If you’ve ever dreamt of being on a Wes Anderson film set (like, all day long), I’m bursting to inform you that now is your chance. Sip coffee amongst his signature pastels (personally chosen by Wes), listen to the jukebox wailing out tunes that would appear on his soundtracks and play the part of a Royal…

The Secret Speakeasy Manhattan Bookshop

Scroll down to find an update on this story. Michael Seidenberg once ran a non-secret bookstore in Brooklyn. When he couldn’t afford to pay rent anymore, he moved Brazenhead Books into his three-room apartment on the second floor in upper East Manhattan. It’s been going for eight years. Images by Jenna Scherer As you can…

For Sale! The Last Cinema Bus

Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have originally sat in the late 1960s, when a fleet of seven of these custom mobile cinema units toured Britain, promoting modern production techniques to the industry. Britain’s then Minister of Technology, Tony Ben commissioned the customised Bedford SB buses to…

No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Film, 70 People Were.

Three years ago, I published an article about a photo story I’d found hiding away deep in the LIFE archives. I saw it spread like wildfire on the internet; jaw-dropping photographs of Tippi Hedren and her family living with full-grown lions, including her daughter, a young Melanie Griffith who is the little girl pictured lying in bed with a…

A Compendium of Teenage Bedrooms on Screen

I never thought teenage bedroom design would inspire me but then I found this amazing Tumblr dedicated entirely to just that. Hollywood set design at its most loveable. It’s also a handy tool for picking what to watch (or re-watch) on movie night. Enjoy this trip down memory lane! Valley Girl (1983) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)…

The Little Bookshop that Takes in Homeless Cats

Cats and books. They just go hand in hand, don’t they? Like jam and toast. And at a small bookstore in Hong Kong, they only know it too well. The SAM KEE Book Company has become known as an unofficial sanctuary for stray cats after its owners began offering their cozy bookshelves and reading nooks as a home…

The Godfather Bar, Still Open.

Once upon a time, Michael Corleone sat on the shady terrace of a local Sicilian bar after a day of hunting with his bodyguards in the mountains. He began to enquire with the bar owner about a beautiful girl he had seen by the roadside. The man quickly realised that Michael was describing his own daughter and…

Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress

She had three sprawling luxury homes at her disposal, but Huguette Clark chose to spend the last 20 years of her life holed up in a New York hospital room. Her father became as rich as Rockefeller from mining copper and founded the city of Las Vegas, but Huguette wasn’t your average American heiress. No one…

What Happens when You Discover 31 Rolls of Undeveloped Film from a WWII Soldier

“Lucky Strike Beach”, “Start of Train Trip”, “Roll of French funeral, 1947”; these are some of the labels found on 31 never-developed rolls of film taken over 70 years ago by an American World War II soldier. One film was wrapped in some kind of a letter that reads: “I’ve always had a lonesome life, dreaming…

Then & Now: The Rolling Stones’ French Villa of Debauchery

In the Spring of 1971, Keith Richards began renting a villa on the Côte d’Azur for $2,500 a month. The British government was threatening to confiscate the bands’ funds if they did not leave the country by April 5th of that year as part of the Labour government’s punitive 93% tax on high earners. The Rolling…

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