NB! · Art · Mores · People · Humour

When Peggy Guggenheim was asked how many husbands she had had, she replied: “My own, or other women’s?”

Painting in a gold frame: the face of a girl with a tear on her cheek and a human skull on the right against a green background.

Art · Cinema · Observations · Humour

The Alien who regarded Ellen Ripley as its mother and her departure by spaceship

Rex Whistler in 1934 and David Fincher in 1992. To be perfectly honest, one has always felt sorry for that poor Alien, especially in the instalment where he took Ellen Ripley for his mother, and she flew off in a spaceship without him

Art · Humour

Jaspar de Isaac, Dealer in Horns and Antlers, 1634

Those who have none of these fine wares, gentlemen, need not haggle here; the most ridiculous and the most magnificent of men buy them

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The Squirrel from "Ice Age" Turns Up in Svetlana Zharnikova's Interview

Screenshot of a Moscow traffic map with closed road sections shown in black and with no-entry signs, including sections of the TTK.

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour

Road closures marked on the map of Moscow, Garden Ring remains open

Meanwhile, half of Moscow is closed off again. Thank goodness it's not the Garden Ring, at least

NB! · Cinema · Museums · Pop Culture · Humour

A Night at the Museum

A night at the museum. Starring Adam Sandler.

Art · Museums · Pop Culture · Humour

Hastings plans a contemporary art gallery that can be viewed on skis

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, whose fortune is estimated at $4.7 billion, is to open an art gallery right on a ski slope, at the 3,433-hectare Powder Mountain resort in Eden, Utah, which he recently acquired. It is planned that the pictures may be viewed without taking

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Humour

I have two questions: why is the Vakhtangov Theatre on the barello menu? And what shall we order?

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Mores · Humour

King George V of England Mows the Lawn under the Watchful Eye of His Mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra

NB! · Observations · Rome · Humour

We've Got a Colosseum at Home

We've got a Colosseum at home. The Colosseum:

The East · London · Society · Humour

Remember that amusing story, worthy of a Richard Gere and Julia Roberts double act, about the Indian Maharajah who walked into a Rolls Royce showroom in London in 1920 dressed in ordinary clothes, only to be refused service and simply shown the door…

Remember that amusing story, worthy of a Richard Gere and Julia Roberts double act, about the Indian Maharajah who walked into a Rolls Royce showroom in London in 1920 dressed in ordinary clothes, only to be refused service and simply shown the door? He then changed into royal attire and

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