Jordan Jovtchev is competing today in London at the gymnastics test event, to qualify for his sixth Olympics. Also the Italian team is trying to qualify for London 2012, having missed the opportunity...
I recently discovered Savon Beldi, which is black soap from Morocco, even better than Aleppo soap, and solid shampoo by Lush (never tried before because I was skeptical). I had a hot stone massage, h...
Se pensiamo ai nostri codici di stesura elettura dell’immagine, guardando anche all’architettura delle nostre città e agli spazi che viviamo abitualmente, ciaccorgiamo che questi sono se...
Again on comics and losing your faith, Yacoov prays for the dead musicians he finds in a wagon in the woods, because If you don’t exist, someone has to think of them. He doesn’t bury the...
I am trying to decide whether I like Pan Am or not. The pilot reminded me of Star Trek somehow (you now, pioneer flying, the frontier, ladies in short uniforms). But the next episode was already deal...
Last September Shozo Shimamoto had a performance in Reggio Emilia, in front of Palazzo Magnani to open his exhibition Opere 1950-2011 – Oriente e Occidente (Works 1950-2011 – The Est and ...
Three reputable non-profit organizations recommended by me, on Planet Earth, in alphabetical order. (financial capitalism may be dying, but we’re still alive) Animals Asia, you surely now this ...
Twitpic – Source The prongs do not hold a diamond, they enclose a very small mirror instead. As I was given the earrings version, you can look at yourself while you’re talking to me.
Snow Hummocks, an image by Ansel Adams. At the Ex Ospedale di Sant’Agostino in Modena until January 29.
My Little Ponies according to Mari Kasurinen… now at the C’era una volta Festival in Rome.
Sometimes you open your closet and you discover that your old clothes have shrunk mysteriously. But can an entire brand shrink while you’re not looking? I found a Fiorucci skirt at the local vi...
A photo by garnant on Flickr. New couch, old kilim, black cat. Book.
When Herta Mueller got her Nobel Prize back in 2009 I was so happy for her and literature. I loved to see her smiling with that bunch of flowers in her arms. When Hertzier was out in 1994, I had just...
In the end it wasn’t democracy, it wasn’t the country, it wasn’t even politics, to put an end to Berlusconi’s government. It was the market, the very market that created him i...
I tend to avoid 3D movies because I find them visually tiring, fast movements are always kind of blurred and the whole experience makes me dizzy. Nevertheless, I decided to see Pina 3D as it’s ...
La Piantata is a naturalistic oasis in the near outskirts of Modena. Once the area was covered by the forest of the Pianura Padana, then the forest were destroyed to make place for agriculture, speci...
Modena al cubo, un documentario di Gabriele Veronesi. According to Istat (see tables), Modena is the sixth most polluted city in Europe, just after Sofia Bulgaria. Guess who has asthma.
Yonebayashi’s colours are enchanting and vibrant, but it was a dark scene in the night that gave me shivers, and that was meeting a tanuki in the woods, while running away. Was it a tanuki? I&...
aposa 2, a photo by Mondo del Gusto – EAT on Flickr. The Aposa is the underground stream that runs through the old center of Bologna. It was once a stream under the moon and the stars, and the ...
Don’t buy a powerful vacuum cleaner the very week you read Le Deuxième Sexe by Simone de Beauvoir. Don’t do that. In case your old vacuum cleaner dies just before a long Autumn weekend do...
I bought some organic catnip seeds at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. I prefer regular seeds to the starter kits I normally find in Europe, so this bag was exactly what I was looking for. The wea...
Well the waiting for the ballet season of the town theater is over at last, as I discovered that there will be no ballet season this Autumn, except for a few events promoted by a private bank, for la...
I’m enjoying a long weekend, to celebrate the Autumn Equinox (I’ve decided I’m not counting birthdays anymore). I’ve been cycling in the country (met a hoopoe), went to the ca...
I arrived at Il Funaro early, and the actors where drinking wine, baking bread and putting the packs of tarots in order. After ten years of waiting I thought I was ready, but I wasn’t. I met En...
I saw This Is England by Shane Meadows. It made me sad because I didn’t know about the casualties of the Falklands War. I distinctly remember the gloom of the Thatcher Era, but I had never real...
On Saturday I went to the cinema to see Once Fast move or I’m Gone – Kerouac’s Big Sur. I was very tired, because we had just finished painting two rooms yellow in a very hot day, a...
My mother gave me a Chan Luu wrap bracelet for my birthday just while I was reading Ru by Kim Thúy. It’s a multistone bracelet and I am able to tell the name of only a few of the semi-precious ...
In my opinion, after last night at the USOpen, it won’t be possible to push tennis further, physically and mentally, unless some dramatic change happens in technology or human species. Maybe it...
A few years ago I went all the way to South Africa, to find myself barefoot in the water, on the crushed shells of Jeffryes Bay, my eyes fixed on the rolling perfection of Supertubes. I body-boarded ...
Today I feel like I was an inhabitant of Alan Wolfston’s NY miniatures. Canal St. Cross-Section, lower subway lever – view into left side window.
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