Babylon turns Istanbul on! Babylon opened its doors in 1999 as a multi-purpose performance center and is Turkey’s best live music venue. Babylon presents a monthly program featuring eclectic selections from jazz to reggae, world music to electronica, Latin to Turkish...
Kiki
posted by Antoine
Walking down Sıraselviler from Taksim square, one wouldn’t expect much looking at the discreet window of Kiki. Yet, come by here on a Wednesday, Friday or Saturday night and you will realize this small restaurant / tea house with a quite overlooking a quiet garden...
Vintage dolmus
posted by Antoine
The dolmus – literally meaning ‘stuffed‘ – are a kind of shared taxi taking a set route for a fixed rate. Anyone who has ever visited Istanbul has probably seen these yellow minivans driving like there is no tomorrow and stopping at the most...
Chanel No 5
posted by Antoine
Almost five years since Baz Luhrmann and Nicole Kidman united in what was allegedly the costliest advertisement ever, Chanel will unveil the next mini-movie in the No.5 saga, featuring the quintessentially French duo of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and his leading lady, Audrey Tautou. Taking the theme of missed encounters between strangers, the commercial depicts doe-eyed Tautou and strapping model Travis Davenport en route from Paris to Istanbul aboard the Orient Express. The two-minute-and-25-second ad breaks on the Internet on May 5 — 88 years to the day that Coco...
KOBE @ISTANBUL
posted by Tolga
Kobe Bryant was around Istanbul for a few days, even played a bit of football with the Galatasaray team and coached a 3-on-3 tournament! Here are the pictures and...
Deron blogging
posted by Tolga
Can’t remember him ever to be that communicative from Utah or New Jersey. But now that he’s in Istanbul, Deron Williams has tapped into his inner Hemingway: “The locker room atmosphere has the same feel as the NBA. All of the guys get along and joke with each other. Pretty...
AR @ Istiklal
posted by Tolga
“Augmented Structures v1.1 : Acoustic Formations/Istiklal Street” is an augmented structure, an installation by Refik Anadol and Alper Derinboğaz which is created through the use of innovative parametric architecture and audiovisual techniques. The projects deals with a new...
Tracey Emin & M...
posted by Tolga
From the Diary of Mu . com: Tracey Emin DIARY: THE IMAGINARY, THE SYMBOLIC, AND THE REAL It’s hard to fit in little words the massive euphoria we experienced and shared that night with Tracey Emin. On the 15th of September 2011, Diary of Mu was invited to a very special opening that...
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