Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   What are you up to on July 11th? Because I’d love to see you over a drink at our book launch party next month for [Don’t be a Tourist in New York](. If you’re in the city, there will be cocktails, live music, nibbles and a wonderful mix of kindred spirits at a very special location for us in Brooklyn. If you can’t make it, maybe we could still do dinner in Paris? Before heading back to New York in July, I’ll be organising our first “Underdog Dinner” for Keyholders this month, where we'll try out one of ol’ Paname’s more unusual and underrated restaurants together. If you’d like to get a little more social with the Messy Nessy Chic team and your fellow readers, perhaps it’s time to [join us on the inside](! Otherwise, we’ve still got plenty of things to keep the conversation flowing at home, from the man who almost stole Frida’s heart to the most unusual things going up for auction this summer. Happy Friday [Nessy]   [Van Gogh’s Gun & other Unusual Things up for Auction this Summer](  [vangogh]( In 1960, a French farmer dug up a Belgian-manufactured Lefaucheux pinfire revolver in a field north of Paris next to the village where Vincent Van Gogh spent his final days. The severely corroded gun is believed to be the one that killed the artist in July of 1890, after he shot himself in the stomach…  [Continue Reading](   [It’s Time You Knew about this Middle Eastern Gang of Artists](  [railways10-web-1024x683]( Google “famous street artists” and you won’t find these guys on the list, but Broken Fingaz ought to be on pop culture’s radar. Our first introduction to them was this mural covering the side of a building in downtown Haifa, their hometown in northern Israel. It depicts an imaginary railway inspired by a forgotten train…  [Continue Reading](   [Tehran’s Desert Ghost Towers look like a Zombie Movie Waiting to Happen](  [1329544_original]( They look as if they’ve risen out of the desert itself in some strange, dystopian world. There are no trees, no cars, no bus stops, no parks, no playgrounds, no people. Just the towers. In a barren landscape 50km outside of Iran’s capital city, the Mehra Mer project in Pardis has been “under construction” for many years…  [Continue Reading](   [Who Was the Man That Almost Stole Frida’s Heart through his Lens?](  [ff0e7f65e306e9ee54a8abe5408ba089-930x656]( Muses. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. That is, not without a fair degree of drama, and especially if you happened to fall into a romantic tornado with miss Frida Kahlo. For a lover to pull Frida out of orbit from Diego – the heartbeat of her world – he or she had…  [Continue Reading](   [The French Town on the Edge of a Giant Hole](  [27681644516_dd64296097_k]( On the lip of a lush cliff in Aveyron hides a place exempt from logic. Granted we’re not scientifically inclined, but there has to be some kind of sorcery bubbling under the bedrock of Bozouls, the ancient French village that’s been teetering on the edge of a massive hole – without totally crumbling in on…  [Continue Reading](   [Better than Broadway: Inside NYC’s Theatre with Soul](  [Screenshot-2019-06-09-at-22.36.20]( In 1961, New York City was sizzling. Musicians, comics, artists – anyone selling a song or a run-on sentence made their way to Manhattan’s East Village to make it big, or have a hell of a lot of fun trying. There, the streets were electric, and for the the theatre crowd they led to one…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCCLV)](  [M1799EP-espaces-atypiques-maison-loft-cour-végétalisée-paris-11.01]( 1. Backstage at the Folies-Bergères Found on Pinterest. 2. Marital Duels In medieval Germany, married couples could legally settle their disputes by fighting a Marital Duel.  [Continue Reading](   [Meet Me at the Wigstock Festival: Remembering NYC Summers in Drag](  [29301341613_54c7da2faa_o]( It was the drag world’s biggest block party. From the heat of 1980s New York, equal parts glitter and grime, the “Wigstock” festival exploded onto the streets as a place for queens to hold court when no one else would have them. Today, watching jaw-dropping drag is as easy as going online or turning on…  [Continue Reading](     [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.