-
Recent Posts
- Chap Olympics celebrate ‘athletic ineptitude and immaculate trouser creases’
- The gig-goers guide to scoring tickets
- A struggle between two worlds – A photostory
- Free food deals ultimately bad for business
- Love haunts me, goddam nature
- In memoriam of a former director/actor: Mel Gibson
- (no title)
- PhotoJAPANism: the power of pictures to tell a tragedy
- Assange explains us how to do our homework properly
- Spoon River resurrects at Tate Britain
- Struggling with your blogs, young CityHacks?
- Hitchcock/Dead – Kickstart the week
- Pictures from the first London gig of Liam Gallagher’s new band
- ‘We’re sorry’, Muammar!
- Will Colin Firth stammer during his Academy awards acceptance speech?
-
Join 2 other subscribers
Category Archives: regular
Chap Olympics celebrate ‘athletic ineptitude and immaculate trouser creases’
Knock-out matches of umbrella jousting and the ironing board surfing race are among the disciplines featured at this year’s Chap Olympiad opening in London on 16 July. Running annually since 2005, the competition welcomes only unfit cads and gentlemen dressed … Continue reading
A struggle between two worlds – A photostory
Historic Billingsgate are losing its fish porters that keeps the flow, Gianluca Mezzofiore finds out. Photostory: Lillo Montalto Monella Costantinos Camilleri has been working for 52 years at the Billingsgate fish market. Half-Italian and half-Greek, he wears with pride a … Continue reading
Free food deals ultimately bad for business
Lillo Montalto Monella investigates the real cost of free meals… ‘Dear customer, please pay what you’d like to pay for the food you’ve just eaten. We won’t charge you on the bill,’ says a notice in one of London restaurants … Continue reading
Posted in regular
Leave a comment
PhotoJAPANism: the power of pictures to tell a tragedy
A list of useful PHOTOJOURNALISM WEBSITES for the narration of the Japanese post-tsunami tragedy. My new post for The Grey Side of News
Posted in photo, regular
Leave a comment
Spoon River resurrects at Tate Britain
It all starts with a closed book, kept in a white, aseptic shrine, frozen in time; but then the neon light fades away, and the book of the soul unfolds, revealing the dark abyss of a forgotten past. Susan Hiller … Continue reading
Posted in regular
Leave a comment
Assignment 2: Community strategy analysis – IDE
I started working as a freelance translator for IDE (ItaliaDallEstero) since April 2009; the website was already one year old by that time. It collects articles of the foreign press about Italy and translates them into in Italian. It is … Continue reading
Posted in regular
Leave a comment
Yes Ireland, elections are getting close…but then?
There are two things which are almost certain about the next Irish elections: first, there will be a massive shake-up in the ruling class; and second, this coming electoral round will be less significant than the subsequent one. It’s been … Continue reading
Holy Facebook!
Calling for a more responsible use of social media, the Pope is heading for the cyber-evangelisation of one of the most de-Christianised areas: the web. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the new pontifical council, was recently charged with spreading the … Continue reading
Vincere, aka Italian female fascination for dictators
In times when Italy public opinion finds itself plunged again into the latest sex scandal involving his charismatic Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who has been placed under investigation on suspicion of sleeping with an underage prostitutes, it can be of … Continue reading
BAFTA sounds appreciation for the King!
Will old-school British period drama The King’s Speech take his revenge after being beaten by David Fincher’s experimental The Social Network, which recently won top honours at the Golden Globes? With the Oscars just around the corner and less than … Continue reading
themonels 