The city of Ascoli Piceno while easy to reach, is also far enough away from the main attractions of the Marche region to keep it off the general tourist track for many people, which is a shame because it’s a real jewel, with plenty to see and do, as TMO Travel found on a recent […]
Speaking about bridges, the Italian writer Erri De Luca, who was himself once a bricklayer said: “The Bridge is the only building work that is generous and social (cordiale). Instead of dividing [like walls], it wants to unite, to connect, to span over rivalry”. Italy with its passions for architecture, regional rivalry, and history has […]
One problem many WordPress webmasters run into is site loading times. This isn’t because there’s something particular or inherently slow about WordPress – after all, some of the biggest and fastest sites in the world are run using WordPress; often there are speed problems for a combination of reasons: many WordPress sites are run on […]
In some respects the Euro crisis is like multiple plane crashes occurring at the same time where manufacturing design faults, exceptional conditions, pilot errors and mistakes by air traffic controllers all led to disastrous and unexpected results.
TMO interviews Danish songwriter / producer / dj Anders Trentemøller to talk about his latest album, his favourite musicians, and why much of his music seems to veer towards the darker melancholic edges of town. Lost is the title of Trentemøller’s third album, and Anders Trentemøller could be forgiven for feeling exactly that, as we […]
Marina Warner speaks to TMO about fairy tales, the paradox of the female voice and why we can never experience the picture of a fairy tale from its text. It was with a mixture of trepidation and a kind of amazed star shock that I approach Marina Warner. Along with being a novelist, critic and […]
If a Woman Should Be Messiah If a woman should be Messiah It might not be an impressive drama, It would be but a slight event and unsignaled It could not but be beautiful. And that is about as much as I dare quote from one of the remarkable early poems of Laura Riding (1901-1991) […]
Speaking on a post-election-special of the talk show Ballaró, Giulio Anselmi, the president of the ANSA press agency, was asked what had surprised him most about the European Elections campaign: “I was most struck by how they [the campaigners] didn’t talk at all about European issues, but then that’s a tradition in European elections in […]
It’s a surreal moment, standing in Bologna’s famous Piazza Maggiore at the closing public event for a new Left coalition that hopes to be the big suprise of these European elections. A number of speakers have already been on the stage, talking about the need to restore both dignity and a certain amount of sovereignty […]
