Surprising fact of the day. Corriere reports on a Eurispes study that has found one in 10 Italians are vegetarian. How things have changed since the days of my scambio scolastico when the family of the girl I was staying with kindly offered me a prawn salad, saying: “we know you don’t eat meat… [Read more…]
February 5, 2009
If more signs were needed of the legitimisation of xenophobia in Italy, doctors will now be able to report illegal immigrants to the Italian government, under legislation approved by the Senate or upper house of parliament on Thursday. The move has already drawn criticism from the centre-left opposition and from Medecins Sans Frontieres in Italy.… [Read more…]
October 20, 2008
On the train home from seeing the olds up in Hertfordshire when I notice the snare coming out of the headphones of the guy sitting behind me. The bpm are around 160. Hmm sounds like jungle. In fact, it sounds strangely familiar… Oh my gosh (it’s been a long weekend so it takes a while for… [Read more…]
October 17, 2008
My Brother is an Only Child is one of the best foreign language films I’ve seen all year. The director, Daniele Luchetti, managed to capture on celluloid the draw of extremism and how during the 60s and 70s belief in political ideas was so strong that that loyalty to left or right could… [Read more…]
October 15, 2008
While Americans prepare to vote for a black president Italy, it appears, prefers to be inspired by the days of Jim Crow. Not that the issue of race is something that’s constantly on my mind (I’m far from right on and definitely don’t have a chip on my shoulder) but… [Read more…]
October 14, 2008
NME’s appropriately named Bored At Work blog reveals that you can watch live versions of all the tracks on The Cure’s soon to be release album at Stereogum… I know what I’ll be doing for the next. My favourite Cure album? It has to be The Kiss – the songs reminds me of being 17 years old, driving around… [Read more…]
October 3, 2008
My Italian love affair has endured for almost half my life. From studying the language at school, to dating (too many) Italian men and then living and working in the country it would be fair to say that I’m a fully paid up member of the Italophile crew. Yet when people ask my… [Read more…]
October 1, 2008
Following on from my post yesterday, the issue of a journalistic crisis appears to be as much of as an ongoing story as the financial crisis. In today’s Corriere della Sera, Marco Pratellesi, editor in chief of Corriere online, blogs about Italian journalists suffering from a cultural crisis and a rupture between generations. Apparently the same issues are… [Read more…]
September 30, 2008
Jude Law doesn’t have a patch on David Gandy (the Dolce & Gabbana model featured in a post below) but the Dior Homme online ad campaign is genius. It encourages users to edit their own version of the ad online, with the best submission being rewarded with a trip for two to the Bahamas. Just… [Read more…]
September 17, 2008
It’s inexcusably childish to cite the fact that I’m writing about the Mediterranean as the reason for this gratuitous video post. I’ll be honest, I did it because David Gandy, the delicious dude in tighty whities, is breath-stoppingly hot. What? The Telegraph get away with posting completely unrelated pictures of hotties next to their news stories so why… [Read more…]
February 12, 2009
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