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Petals of love? Petals of pain? Or just something from the Biennale? 17 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
I came across this this morning. I’ll never know what happened, but my first reaction was to feel sad for whoever dismembered the rose and scattered its bits to the wind, to the gravel, to the pigeon...
Missing photos 16 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
I know that the photographs in my last post have not loaded correctly. I am working on resolving this. It’s maddening. Hope for better things tomorrow. Missing photos is a post from: Venice: I am ...
The more things change…. 15 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
The sun is shining but the sky is dark. I know it happens everywhere but here it has a sort of metaphoric vibe. People sometimes ask me — or ask themselves, standing next to me — why the government o...
Those pesky permits, plus some creative parenting 13 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
I appreciate that Venice (well, San Giorgio, in this case) is seductive and irresistible and beautiful and everything. But it wouldn’t have been less beautiful the next day. The city has been here for...
Summer glimpses 7 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
I don’t know why he has to look so cranky. At least he gets to lie on ice. Laboring under the phenomenal force of the combined heat and humidity which have been oppressing us (Italy as a whole, but I...
Paging Dr. Paganini 1 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
This is the Palazzo del Bo’, the 16th-century heart of the University of Padua, where many of the examinations are held. The winged lion of San Marco is over the door, which Venice placed after it ...
Racy ideas 29 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
The prize ceremony at the regata of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, and all the races this year, is sponsored by the Graspo de Ua, a restaurant which is in the process of becoming a small empire. Their spons...
Redeeming grace, redeeming the race 25 Jul 2013 | 11:03 pm
The church of the Redentore on the Giudecca, on Sunday evening, when its annual mission has been completed, its vow to the past and future fulfilled. Anyone who has lived longer than 25 minutes has d...
Frankfurter reporten 20 Jul 2013 | 04:23 am
We joined Richard Winckler to row his gondola from the boat-launching area up the Main River toward Frankfurt. It’s not a bad combination: one of the oldest forms of boat in the world in a certified “...
A medley of today 11 Jul 2013 | 02:56 am
I’m about to shimmer away for a few days in Frankfurt for a big boating event on the river Main, so I won’t be posting till next week. Here are a few of the things I saw today, just to keep you in th...
