DJ 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, [...]
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Jaragua
January 5, 2010Plays 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 [...]
Glistening Snow
December 26, 2009Indoor Safari
December 22, 2009Bruno Lazzari
December 11, 2009The perfect way to slacken the waistline after another monster portion of Tiramisu is to head to the Lido where Bruno Lazzari rents bikes from his shop, a two-minute walk from the Vaporetto stop. You can take a classic two-wheeler, a tandem, a tandem with sunshade – for those with sunburn from the day before [...]
Iris Viewing
May 22, 2009It’s no great secret that Japanese people have a thing about flowers, and the blooming of the irises in the mid-June rainy season is seen as the traditional harbinger of summer. Just about all of the city’s traditional gardens – including the popular Meiji Jingu inner garden – will be filled to bursting with cameras, [...]
Rosanna Casano
April 22, 2009The oil paintings in this intriguing exhibition, by one of Barcelona’s young established artists, display intricate urban landscapes impregnated with human presence, but absent of any figures. Fragments of the city viewed from the sky are repeated over and over to the point of abstraction, yet, these bits of rich form and colour are still [...]
Kauai
February 23, 2009Portofino
January 19, 2009Not just for babies…
December 17, 2008Baby Wet Ones (you know – those wet wipe thingos) are great for refreshing on a hot dusty day, disinfecting hands before eating (e.g. in India) and if you run out of toilet paper….
