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For Sale: Who wants to Buy an Endangered 1920s LA Movie Theatre?

You can’t buy tickets to see a movie here, but you could buy the box office– along with the entire theatre. The Rialto theatre first opened its doors nearly 90 years ago for vaudeville and movies in the city of South Pasadena on Fair Oaks Avenue. Admission fee was 30 cents. A relic of the Jazz Age and…

Meet the Vinyl Collectors

Some of the most interesting people I know also happen to be vinyl collectors. Maybe it’s because they spend so much time in record shops digging through the past, but they always have such great stories to tell. And when I’m invited over, I secretly enjoy observing them handle their collection; so carefully, so contently,…

So Jeff Goldblum has been playing a little-known Weekly Jazz Night for the last 15 Years

I had a pretty weird crush on Jeff Goldblum when I was a growing up. While other girls were buying teen pop magazines whose pages were filled with blonde, noodle-haired boy bands, I was picking up cigar aficionado magazines featuring interviews with the tall, stogy-loving actor, and renting his entire filmography at the video store on weekends. But that’s just…

A Dedication to Vintage Black Glamour

The internet spawns another exciting book, in this case, a Tumblr dedicated entirely to Vintage Black Glamour. From Josephine Baker getting a pedicure to an anonymous snapshot of a style icon that never was, author Nichelle Gainer has been unearthing a treasure trove of iconic images from rarely accessed photographic archives ever since she began…

This Guy’s Job is to make Props for Boardwalk Empire & Hollywood Films

Ever wondered whose job it is to make all those fabricated newspapers, letters, photographs, posters or books used by characters on our favourite TV shows and in the movies? It’s a peculiar and curious career niche, but I’ve found someone that does exactly that for a living… Ross MacDonald never finished high school, nor did…

Martin Scorcese’s 1930s Paris

The Martin Scorcese film, Hugo, belly flopped at the box office in 2011, which probably explains why I hadn’t heard much about it– pretty unusual for a Scorcese flick. But boy, am I glad I gave this one a second chance. For anyone else that eats, sleeps and breathes all things Paris, this movie is…

For Sale: Get your very own Hollywood Movie Playground for $7.5 million

Here’s a fool-proof plan for making it in the movie industry– and all you need is just $7.5 million! New on the Californian property market is a fully-equipped, ready-to-go movie ranch complete with elaborate background sets for all your blockbuster film-making needs. The Blue Cloud movie ranch facilities have already taken a supporting role in…

The Little Latino Brownstone Bookstore

Tucked under the stairs of a brownstone in Spanish Harlem, also known as El Barrio, is a place where locals and Frida Kahlo disciples alike can feel right at home. La Casa Azul Bookstore is the only independent literature hub of this vibrant Latin American neighbourhood, the first in New York with an emphasis on Latino…

The Envelope Collector

I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the way they get my mind wondering about what they once contained. Considering the contents of an envelope makes it into something far more intimate and personal and photographer Andrew Bush‘s fascinating collection does just that. The carefully considered…

The Travelling Library of Sketchbooks

“It’s like a food truck where you get sketch books instead of Tacos”. So here’s one of those projects that makes you wonder, how does something like this manage to exist? The Sketchbook Project is an innovative art project that pretty much allows anyone to participate in art and have their work seen by people all…

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