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For Sale! The Three-Eyed Car of Tomorrow that Never Was

It could have been as iconic as the Mustang, as popular as the Cadillac but only 51 Tuckers were ever made before the factory suddenly closed its doors forever in 1948. The Tucker 48 was the American dream of a small entrepreneur who believed he could go up against the automobile giants at a time when the…

Meet the most Legendary Pizza Delivery Guy

This guy. It’s not just that he is fifty-two years old, has a mountain man beard, and delivers pizza around Brooklyn on a fixie bike, getting the pies to the door while they’re still hot and fresh. It’s his stories; ones that rarely get an audience making fleeting door to door acquaintances; raw and honest stories waiting to be…

Meet NYC’s Youngest Truffle Dealer

If you’re a self-diagnosed foodie and haven’t yet discovered Munchies, VICE network’s new gastronomic corner of the net, you’re missing out. One of their latest reports follows NYC’s youngest truffle dealer Ian Purkayastha, known for selling the good stuff– wink wink. No really though, it turns out that peddling truffles in New York City is almost as cut…

Meryl Streep on Beauty, Rejection and her Drug

Her voice oozes wisdom and soothes the soul. And you just get the feeling that this woman rarely tells a lie– unless it’s for a damn good reason. The genius folks at Blank on Blank, curator of lost and unheard interviews with famous names, have released their latest animated re-discovered interview with an icon. They…

The Paris Shop of a Million Lost Photographs

On the outer corners of the red light district in Paris’ Pigalle, an unassuming old shop space caught my attention. The roller shutter was almost fully closed, but I could see in the window there were stack upon stacks of photographs, old ones, collectively piled on the floor. I then signalled to the young man…

Fashionable Grandpas of New York

This is why instagram is awesome: an account dedicated entirely to seeking out the fabulous ‘fashion grandpas’ of NYC, started by young Fashion PR exec, Christina Belchere, who says her own style of dressing has even been influenced by the grandpas she snaps. “@FashionGrandpas inspires my personal style, the style advice is real & no joke. Colors like mustard,…

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…

The Great Parisian Waiters Race

If ever you’ve had an unpleasant experience with a French waiter (I’m guessing that’ll be just about everyone reading this), perhaps you might not be averse to some light entertainment at their expense. A bizarre sporting event that dates back more than a hundred years, the Waiters Race, better known to the French as the…

The Braided Rapunzels of Africa & other Tribal Trends

My early weekday nights are typically spent wandering the depths of Pinterest. On this occasion, I found a rather hypnotising pin board called Fashion Around the World, where I discovered these incredible African Rapunzels… The hairstyle currently making you do a double-take is known as Eembuvi Braids, worn by women of the Mbalantu tribes from the Namibia. It’s…

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