New York- I have a new vlog out on my Fabled City channel this week where I explore the sprawling Bronze Age trading centre known as Akrotiri on the Cycladic island of Thera, known far more widely as Santorini. I’d…
Berlin- I published my first long form history vlog in a while about the mysterious origins of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cycladic culture collection back home in NYC. These idols, or figurines, are inherently fascinating because for what seems…
Larnaca- I have a new piece out this week on The Redline Podcast site on the election of Nikos Christodoulides as the republic’s new president, it’s youngest and therefore first post-1974 generation leader. This island has long fascinated the hell…
Athens- I’ve just spent the last three weeks in Greece and it felt as if I visited two distinct worlds between the whitewashed and azure Cyclades and the gritty bustle of Athens on the mainland. Greece is enduring simultaneous crises…
Thira- I’ve been existing in my news vacuum here for just about two weeks. I wanted to see if I could go 14 days without ingesting any news. Taking a break from breaking news on beheading videos, leading from behind…