August 1st at Le Piastre (province of Pistoia, in the mountains) is the 34th annual  “Campionato Italiano della Bugia” – Italian championship of telling lies. Appropriately, this takes place on a Sunday afternoon (at 4:30pm).
As …

Illy Caffe’ has made this video about how to make the perfect moka, or Italian coffee. It’s even better than the photos and description I’ve posted about in the past: How to make Italian coffee …

Me and my Mother – not ME, but Ragnar Kjartansson and his mom. The video/ performance artist from Reykjavík (Iceland) is my same age (born in ‘76). The “Me and my mother” video series comprises …

I can only say: SO. BAD.

This has got to be the worst poster design fail ever. We received this at the office via email and I heard a gasp from a colleague so I had …

Nothing is quite so cute as a cat sitting on a wall in Tuscany. In Sticciano in Maremma there are lots of cats of varying degrees of wildness, and they love to sit on the …

The experience of attending a rock concert by an Italian artist can be a measure of one’s level of social integration.

I am a huge fan of these portapotties by Sebach. There’s one on the highway between Firenze Sud and Firenze Certosa, but we are never going slow enough to photograph it, and it’s …

Can Italy be Ugly? Yes, according to Oliviero Toscani, and we need to stop turning a blind eye to this ugliness.
Thus is born the project “Nuovo Paesaggio Italiano” – new italian landscapes – developed by …

There are few moments of the year in which Italians will talk about the weather as much as an Anglo-Saxon. Right about now is one of those moments, when the mercury (if mercury thermometres weren’t …

From July 1 to September 30, 2010 in Rome, select archaeological sites will be open to the public with the initiative “Secret Rome from A to Z (Roma Segreta dalla A alla Z)”. Guided tours …

Every June 24th I try to do something different – it’s San Giovanni, the patron saint of Florence. Most people flock downtown to see the fireworks along the Arno. Last year I got out of …

We just installed our new Frizzi, a ceiling lamp made in Italy by Nemo and designed by Karim Rashid in 2005. It’s our first real design object in the house, if you don’t count designers …