The fifth annual Tango Festival, Tango-to Istanbul, was held here in the first week of March with many tango lovers from all around the world. When a friend from the US  came over for the tango festival, within less than a week, I was introduced...
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Though the art of window displays is considered to be integral to the urban consumer culture to an inextricable extent,  I thoroughly enjoy a well-crafted, visually appealing, arty window dressing of the retail world. It is a form of art on its own terms...
No doubt, street food is a unique, rich part of food culture that reflect our age-old traditions in shopping, cooking and eating. Foodies know that Istanbul is definitely no exception to that! While travelling abroad in the past decade, I have come across...
   The legend is that in 7th century B.C. Byzas of Megara consulted the oracle of Apollo at the Delphi temple in order to find a suitable colony to settle. The prophecy he received was that he should settle right across the land of the blind....
Zero Istanbul, the Istanbul edition of Zero magazines, is a complimentary listing magazine published monthly as a guide to culture, entertainment and lifestyle in Istanbul. Easy to find it in cafes around Taksim. For the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial,...
 Born and raised in Istanbul, Aslı loves travelling to exotic places. Yet, she says she always comes back to Istanbul homesick. One of my partners in crime, Aslı accompanies me while I am doing field research and we love exploring ins and outs...
In the 1990s, a photo historian's discovery of Charles W. Cushman's archive revealed the '30s world in color, an era which we are very much used to seeing in black. It turned out that Cushman, an amateur photographer, was one of the early adopters of Kodak's...
     In consensus, we all agree that the Bosphorus is one of a kind. We insist there is no equivalent to the divine pleasure of eating simit (Turkish bagel), drinking tea and taking a puff from your cigarette while the sweet warm breeze...
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