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Before you ask, no it’s not named after ageing, taboo-breaking, Kabbalah practicing, ex-Mrs Guy Ritchie, warbling-chanteuse Madonna. Oh not it’s not. In fact the Madonna Inn first sprung up in 1958 and was named after the original creator and owner Alex...
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Comments Off on Haus-Rucker-Co: Art, Architecture & Strange Helmets
We seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment when it comes to featuring slightly bonkers architects and it would be rude of us not to share our latest slightly bonkers architects discovery with you; it’s time to take a look at Austrian avant-garde,...
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The chances are you’ve seen his work before but have never put a name to the photographs. His style is very much his own, very French and early on he found his niche and stuck with it. Let’s take a brief look at the life and work of French photographer...
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Comments Off on Ant Farm – Underground Architecture
Here’s a question for you. What do you get when you mix-up a bunch of young, enthusiastic, newly qualified architects, a load of off-the-wall ideas, a rock-band sensibility and a whole host of recreational drugs? Well, if you went back to the late 1960s...
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Comments Off on Singers and Swingers In The Kitchen
Feeling hungry? Thought so. How do you fancy a little something from the ‘scene-makers cookbook’? Or as the cover notes say: ‘Dozens of nutty, turned-on, easy-to-prepare recipes from the grooviest gourmets happening.’ Now before you start sniggering,...
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Comments Off on Do The Batusi – Wayne Manor Night Club
Whilst our clubbing years are some way behind us now, if someone had the foresight and ambition to open a Batman themed night-club nearby we’d almost certainly be there in a flash, bang and with a kerpow thrown in for good measure. Admittedly this seems...
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Comments Off on Behind Closed Doors – Sixties stars at Home
When they were not entertaining the masses, drinking expensive champagne, smoking Cuban cigars and taking illicit substances by the bucket load our Sixties musical heroes liked nothing better than to relax at home playing a few records with a photographer...
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Comments Off on The Spy Who Copied Me
As one-time vicar, wine merchant, art collector, inveterate gambler and noted partridge shooter Charles Caleb Colton once famously remarked ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’. During the 1960s there seemed to be a series of, let’s call them...
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More often than not when we see protests featured in the media they are about the big issues that tend to attract big numbers and almost inevitably big controversy. Here we take a look at the smaller end of the protest spectrum where folk are focusing on...
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Comments Off on Hugh Hefner – The Pyjama-Clad Activist
Whilst we know Hugh Hefner is a bit of a lecherous pyjama-clad slimy toad; albeit a somewhat dry and wrinkly pyjama-clad slimy toad these days, we do have a degree of admiration for his, well, let’s call it his chutzpah. We know his contribution to...
