Vicars’ Close: the oldest residential street in Europe that also features an optical illusion.
Vicars’ Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest purely residential street with original buildings still intact in Europe. The first houses on this attractive street, close […]
What remains of Rosemary Farm and its lively past~
Some forty miles from New York, there is a place called Rosemary Farm (or Roland Conklin Estate), a Long Island estate of several hundred acres where beautiful things have been […]
Fingal’s Cave, the “Cave of Melody” in Scotland
Usually you not hear, in the same sentence, names like Queen Victoria, Matthew Barney, Jules Verne, and Pink Floyd but, strangely enough, there is a place that they all share. […]
Dustyesky: the leading genuine fake Russian choir in Southern Hemisphere
The little Australian village of Mullumbimby is one of the last places on Earth you would expect to find a men’s choir singing their hearts out about the Motherland and […]
Festival Club: Ibiza’s first club
We are in Ibiza. The island wasn’t always the party hotspot it is today. It wasn’t until the late 1960s that it became a tourist destination, with hotels, restaurants and […]
#April 13, 1742: Handel’s “Messiah” premieres in Dublin
Nowadays, the performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah oratorio at Christmas time is a tradition almost as deeply entrenched as decorating trees and waiting for Santa. In churches and concert […]
#March 3, 1875: Carmen, the opera that shocked Paris
Carmen, now one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world, had its premiere on this day, March 3 1875, in Paris. However, its story of an […]
The true, complete, unaltered History of 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival – 50 years later
Exactly fifty years ago half a million hippies, beatniks, and long-hairs descended upon upstate New York for the Woodstock music festival, the music festival that changed the world. Max Yasgur, […]
Just one note: history of the shortest concert ever!
The summer of 2007 was an exciting year for White Stripe fans in Canada: Jack White and Meg White of the former legendary rock duo The White Stripes and their […]
Ilkey Moor between a strange song, bronze age carving and alien sighting!
We are in England, and If you want go to visit Ilkey Moor, be sure to wear a hat. At least, that’s what an unofficial Yorkshire’s anthem will advise! This […]
Woodstock Artists Cemetery~
A few minutes’ walk from the Woodstock Village Green, a zone often filled with lively music and art, there is a piece of green on a hillside filled with music […]
22# Silent Night and the Christmas truce.
This story is probably another chapter in the book of the countless Christmas legend, and another checkbox in our advent calendar! It was 1914 ,and soldiers on both sides of […]
The strange story of “Gloomy Sunday”, the song that incite to suicide.
In Vienna, a teenage girl drowned herself while clutching a piece of sheet music. In Budapest, a shopkeeper killed himself and left a note with write the lyrics of the […]
Ex-Maskó, memories of a discotheque and testimony of who remember.
“A long time ago (it was 2005, NDR), here it was always party.” These are the words of D, a man who remembers well this disco, when it was open, […]