Packed too much grappa and can’t lift your bag? Avail yourself of one of Venice’s more discreet services, the city porter or portabagagli. Handily situated near the main tourist areas, these burly gentlemen will deliver you and your purchases overland to the bus or rail stations for the connection to the next stop on your [...]
Archive for January 2010
Porters
January 17, 2010Don’t get lost with Sydney car hire
January 17, 2010Flying was always a bit scary for many people, the take offs and landings where the hardest parts because you have your fingers crossed hoping that you make it. Even though statistically flying is still the safest way to travel these fact are not really in your mind as the thousand tone jet somehow keeps [...]
Dreaming Plum Blossoms Away
January 15, 2010Playwright and director Ho Ying-fung’s say this show is ‘a dream within a dream’. His show promises to be a visual feast as Ho plans stunning sets for this surreal East-meets-West piece inspired by Milan Kundera’s ‘Immortality’ and Chinese opera star Tong Tik-song’s ‘The Reincarnation Of Lady Plum Blossoms’. In the story, a woman seeks [...]
Victor Wooten
January 11, 2010Electric bass player Victor Wooten, a member of Bela Fleck’s Flecktones, does the solo thing. The Birchmere has long been one of the Flecktones favourite places to play, and it should make an ideal setting for this solo jaunt, where Wooten will flaunt the skills that have won him ‘Bassist of the Year’ awards by [...]
La Lecciona beach
January 10, 2010In the last few years, the area around the beach known as La Lecciona, some three kms south of Viareggio on the Versilia coast, has become known as a gay hang out. The beach itself is near Bar La Lecciona, which doubles as a fish restaurant and attracts some pretty crazy characters. There are also [...]
Douglas Brinkley
January 9, 2010Historian, biographer and media pundit Douglas Brinkley discusses his new book, the life story of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Brinkley, a professor at the University of New Orleans and a familiar face on TV news chat shows, will be joined by Washington Post reporter Paul Hendrickson, who is working on a biography of Emmet [...]
Darshan Cafeeling
January 7, 2010The owners of the hip Darshan Café, Darshan Udvar and other establishments clustered along Krudy Gyula utca left their home neighbourhood to open the new restaurant-bar-café, Darshan Cafeeling. Ironically, the one thing missing from this café is feeling. The fantastical décor- trippy primitivist murals and oddly shaped walls – is accompanied by ‘alternative’ music. The [...]
Crush
January 6, 2010That is usually what you find on the weekends at this Adams Morgan night spot, where the order of the night is dance hits of the 1980s rather than the techno-rave-electronic thump currently taking the US by storm. During the week it can get pretty cosy but is usually just pleasantly hopping – a place [...]
Jaragua
January 5, 2010DJ Caramelo leads the Latin-American sounds at Jaragua, a club just above then river near Porta San Niccolò. Expect steamy sounds for hot summer nights on a tiny dance floor where you can practise your salsa, merengue and cha-cha. If you don’t know the steps, there is a Latin dance school every night. Cocktails are, [...]
Plays at the Border
January 4, 2010San Francisco’s Magic Theatre continues its tradition of supporting emerging playwrights with its fourth New Play Festival entitled ‘Play at the Border’. The festival features staged readings and a workshop production of several new works in development, each speaking to cross-cultural issues and border conflicts around the world. The plays address such relationships as those [...]
