Florence nightlife moves outside in the summer, and one of the most pleasant ways of spending the early part of the evening is at one of the many open air cinemas that appear from mid-June. Some eight screens show two films per night, every night. The first screening is usually of a latest release, while [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Open Air Cinema
February 27, 2010Objects Relating to Early Christianity in Japan
February 25, 2010What better time to host this exhibition than around Christmas? Like many other imports from the west, Christianity has a chequered history in Japan. Many of the Spanish and Portuguese missionaries came here in the 1500s expecting to find natives to convert in the same way as they had elsewhere. Instead they found a land [...]
A common lizard hidding between layers of leaves
February 17, 2010Racing: The Fair Grounds
February 16, 2010Thanksgiving means far more than turkey dinners in New Orleans, it’s also the opening day of the city’s race track, the Fair Grounds. The 2000-2001 season begins with a series of big races, the Thanksgiving Handicap on opening day (November 23), the Old Hickory Stakes (November 25) and the Pontalba Stakes (November 26). While the [...]
Shula’s Steak House
February 13, 2010The latest in the now-dizzying array of big-beef houses in DC, Shula’s is brought to you by Hall of Fame football coach Don Shula, who led both the Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Colts to gridiron glory. There’s the usual steakhouse fare (prime rib, lobster, shrimp) but nothing outdoes the 48-ounce Porterhouse ($66), which – if [...]
The Eiffel Tower
February 7, 2010A Century of German Ceramic Arts
February 6, 2010The reason for this bizarre-sounding exhibition is that German artists working in ceramics at the end of the 19th-century suddenly came under a new set of influences from Japan. Experiments with oriental-style glazing eventually resulted in the refinement of a technique that ultimately led in to the influential Bauhaus and Jugendstil movements. This exhibition presents [...]
The LEGO Imagination Center
February 3, 2010LEGO will make retail history by devoting the entire third floor of The Shops at North Bridge to children’s fashion, accessories and toys. From mid-November the ‘LEGO Imagination Center’ will stock more than 400 LEGO products, including branded clothing and sports gear, hard-to-find European merchandise and the LEGO BABY line. The store will pull shoppers [...]
