All Stories
Everything we've published, newest first.
Daddy Groovy
The colonel who sketched a dream house that was never built, and the son who has started to see him in the mirror every morning.
Baroque and roll in Heidelberg
‘Put your foot here and you will return to Heidelberg and live happily ever after,’ our guide says. I stepped into the impression. (Narrator: It would.)
Dead thoughts about death and dying
A real human skull inside a bookcase, mortuary curiosities, and a middle-of-the-night meditation on Damien Hirst and why death spares no one.
La Luz in my religion
Inside La Luz De Jesus on Hollywood Boulevard, the gallery that turned lowbrow art into a congregation, with a gift shop of relics and toys.
Twisted stars, plotted lines and NYC
The city that never sleeps will not let you snooze, so take a walk on the wild side. Five cubist women in a brothel, skies delirious with stars.
From Hell to Eden and back: Welcome to the Eagles gig in California
The Eagles at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, Hotel California in full cinematic paranoia, for a crowd still hoping to party like 1979.
Achtung Berlin
A vanished Wall, neo-expressionists on Sophienstrasse, and the ghosts of Bowie, Iggy and Lou still loitering around Hansa Studios.
Viva lost Vegas
‘People need to laugh after losing their money,’ somebody informs me. How prophetic. A first trip down the Strip, and a sucker leaves the building.
The wild sleep chase
Three in the morning, wide awake, counting sheep into the thousands. A record, a book, and the bakers’ radios arriving at last like a lullaby.
A city where the lights never go out
Two Japans in one trip: ninja houses and the record bins of Akihabara, then the long silence of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima.
Singapore Skydive Festival: ’Xcuse me while I kiss the sky
A man with “10,000 assorted fears,” heights chief among them, leaps from a Russian helicopter 12,000 feet over Singapore.
Life, death and all that jazz
Mingus and Coltrane, Harry’s Bar at Boat Quay, and a goodbye to drummer Bob Barreto. Life may be short, but the beats are infinite.