While most tourists look up, contemplating the towers and the palaces of the city center, my new friend William Condé from Southern England has spent quite some time of his month in Bologna admiring and photographing door knobs. And worth a photograph they are. Sometime you need the look of an outsider to rediscover the … More (Silent post) Door Knob Porn
The most exciting week of the year – at least for cinephiles, romantics and people of good taste – is fast approaching. Il Cinema Ritrovato opens Saturday 22nd and is going to unravel its magic up until Sunday 30th. About 500 films from over 100 cinematheques will form the usual, sumptuous party of vintage cinema, … More Ten reasons why you really, really shouldn’t miss Il Cinema Ritrovato
How many of you casually go to “surrealist parties”? Or hang around with the most creative talent of your generation? How many of you split your time between Paris, New York, London and Egypt and your career between being a fabulous model, an accomplished photographer, a war journalist and a chef? This is just a … More The surreal(ist) lives of Lee Miller
«Can I have my veggie jianbing without the egg?» «It’s not going to taste as good…» the waiter tells me with a discouraging face. So I instantly decide to forget that I’m well over my weekly amount of eggs and oblige. According to the most recent reports, jianbing, a delicious Chinese crepe, is one of … More Craving a jianbing? I have the place for you
If there’s a topic that inevitably brings up some debate this is (the very existence of) spaghetti bolognese. A false myth for some, an Italian delicacy for most non Italians, the sole mention of this dish has the typical Bolognese person (me included) scream with indignation: «Spaghetti Bolognese don’t exist!». And this is indeed true, … More What if Spaghetti Bolognaise were made with tuna?
Three kittens drunk on milk. That’s how my girlfriends and I looked and felt at the end of our first shared bubble tea tasting this afternoon. I’ve been lazily postponing this meeting for quite a while, knowing that while being rather a novelty in old dear Bologna, there was no scoop in the sudden springing … More It’s boba time! A little map of Bologna’s bubble tea shops
“No sugar, just stir”. If you’re familiar with Caffè Terzi, you probably heard this quite some times. Now I’m specifically talking both of the cafè and the coffee, most mostly the latter, that delicious specialty coffee with a secret recipe that has the same name of the venue and that is a sublime break in … More Spice hunting. The mystery of Caffè Terzi
Not a teenager anymore, Bilbolbul is in its early twenties but is still very determined to play. This festival dedicated to comics is about to take Bologna by storm once again and today it was presented to the press. This year’s theme was revealed: other realities, something that can mean almost anything, especially in the … More Parallel realities and a call to be pop. Bilbolbul is back in town
I had been waiting for them for a while and finally they’re here in Bologna. The floating kimonos, the snowy landscapes, the carps, the birds, the cherry blossoms and of course the waves, those iconic “dragon claw waves” as they’re called, that are so strongly linked to a certain imagery of Japanese painting during its … More Inside the foam, behind the wave. Hiroshige and Hokusai at Museo Archeologico
Among the advantages of being a daydreaming journalist slash part time flaneur there’s the possibility of accidentally walking into an exhibition’s opening while you’re taking a walk, presenting your press ID and sneaking in even though you weren’t invited or informed of its happening (hey, we’re paid less than decently but at least we get … More The beauty of being mad: Larry Fink’s photos are silent screams against Donald Trump
Flaneur in Bologna 