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3 Ways to Spot Fake Wine: Meet the Sherlock Holmes of Wine Crime

I won’t pretend I know much of anything about buying expensive wine, but I do know that I love playing detective. Armed with blue lights and razor blades in her toolkit, Maureen Downey has become a top wine fraud investigator, helping to rid the wine industry of counterfeit and stolen wine. Yes, wine crime is actually a…

And they say Romance is Dead? Rooms by the Hour at the Paris Love Hotel

  I‘ve taken the liberty of translating a few lines from the brochure… “Finally rooms that rent by the hour for a gallant time!” – Yes, finally! “Original rooms, a moment of intimacy in the heart of Paris for couples in love.” –I think it’s really sweet how they specify the rooms are for couples in…

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

1. Steve McQueen and his wife, Neile Adams, firing pistols in the Palm Springs desert in 1963 Found on Reddit. Poison Garden   2. Empty Chinese Amusement Parks What happens when the crowds go home? That’s what Stefano Cerio has spent the last year investigating for his latest book, Chinese Fun. The Italian photographer has…

So in Sweden, McDonald’s has a Ski-Thru Restaurant

“Lovin’ it” or hatin’ it, McDonald’s is a permanent fixture of the modern high street, king of the highway drive-throughs, pioneer of the fast food take-over. But did you expect it to become a part of your ski run? At “McSki,” located in the popular Swedish ski resort of Lindvallen, about 450 kilometers northwest of Stockholm,…

Bonhams Found a Million Pound Private Collection of Rare Vintage Motorcycles to Sell

This weekend at a showground in Staffordshire, England, Bonhams is having the sale of the century for great British and American motorcycles. A £1 million pound single-owner collection of 60 incredible motorcycles from a private museum will go under the hammer on Saturday 17th October and an astounding collection of barn finds unearthed after more…

13 Things I Found on the Internet (Vol. CXLVIII)

1. Haussmanhattan: Vintage Paris X New York Architect Luis Fernandes sent me his awesome Tumblr, Haussmanhattan mixing New York and Paris in the 1900-30’s. You can follow his mash-ups on Twitter and find them all on the Tumblr.   2. China’s Fake Louvre “Copycat China adds the Louvre to its ‘duplitecture’ collection”. After drawing the ire of the Egyptian government…

Check out the Private Portable Islands Christie’s are Now Selling

It’s the kind of scenario that comes straight out of a science-fiction movie set in the future, where the polar ice caps have melted and everyone is living on manmade islands drifting in the ocean, sailing the Earth. But of course for the 1%, their apocalyptic “Waterworld” looks a little more 5 star… No longer just a…

The Ten Year Apocalypse that Nearly Destroyed Midwestern America

If you saw Christopher Nolan’s science fiction epic, Interstellar, you’ll recall the first few minutes of the film, set in the year 2067, consists of interviews by survivors of an apocalyptic dust bowl. Although Nolan’s film is fictional, those scenes are in fact real interview clips of actual survivors from the Dust Bowl which nearly destroyed the midwestern United…

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

1. A Rooftop Gymnasium in Paris, 1946 French actress Barbara Laage is pictured, photographed by Nina Leen, found in the LIFE archives.   2. Classy Ladies with Hidden Tattoos Found on Miss Meadows’ Pearls   3. These Tattooed Ceramic Figures Jessica Harrison’s latest Series of Altered Ceramic Figures.   4. The old Moustaches Found on Printmag   5.…
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