Boy! My two cousins come into town and a riot ensues! Connie and Gerry arrived yesterday morning, crashed out for a...
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Canal Flea-Market Purchases
The original plan was to head to Firenze for the day (!), but I caught a short, quick cold Friday night and couldn't...
Antiques Along the Grand Canal
On the last Sunday of the month, one can browse Antiques and Flea-Market-Finds for as far as the eye can see (2...
Just Park It!
"My car fits. Doesn't that make it a parking space?" "It looks like a parking space." "Oh. You mean this is a...
Kitty Fix on Ricotta Day
Wednesday is "ricotta day", the day they make fresh ricotta at the Cascina Femegro. Even though I had just been there...
Portraits of a Regional Election
They put the temporary, scaffold-and-tin poster walls back up in my neighborhood just in time to feature advertising...
Head Cheese & Olive Bread
After the flea market at Piazza dei Ciompi in Firenze last Sunday, I walked a few blocks further and saw yellow-tented...
Winter Goes Grudgingly
Winter has been long and gray and holding tight, unwilling to give way. But it's late March now, and winter goes...
How to Patch a Chuckhole
There's an ingenious citizen taking action along the frontage road that borders the canal and leads to the bike path....
Fractal Fibonacci Romanesco*
They call it "Cavolfiore" or Cauliflower here, but Americans call it "Romanesco Broccoli". Either way, it tastes...
Eat, That You Will Feel Well
Would you let 30 random strangers eat off your plate? Would you, in turn, eat off the plates of those 30 strangers?...
Zucchi Collection
When here in Milano in the summer of 2008, I stumbled upon a Zucchi Store just a half block north of the Duomo. They...
Inspire the Construction Workers
JUST as they were on a crane removing this billboard ad for high-fashion lingerie, I was walking by with my camera and...
Oranges for a Lifetime
Yesterday morning I went to the local Saturday market on a mission: gather as many different citrus tissue wrappers as...
Pasta. We’re Not Talkin’ Noodles
Milano is a fabulous place to do a "design intensive" exploration, and I've stepped up my voracious visual consumption...
A Cute, Little Italian
Hmm. I might find me a cute, little Italian. All the right curves and straight lines. Just my size. Fits into tight...
Sanremo on the Riviera
The locals write "Sanremo", a conjunction of the saint's name. The rest of the world splits it into two words: San...
Smell the Money in Monaco
We continued on to Monaco and the Casino Monte-Carlo. Who'd have imagined? All of us commented on the...
Signage & Storefronts
As a designer and artist, being here in Italy is a pilgrimage to the home of all the motifs, patterns and visual...
Centrale Station Doorway
Getting out at Milano Centrale Metro Station to change from one line to another, I came up the escalator and was faced...