Let the Mamas Squirt in Bologna’s Piazza Grande
This statue of Neptune is famous because at one time the Pope wanted to cover up the God’s privates…and he didn’t like these squirting mamas either. But today, Bolognese like to have it all show, so no censorship is allowed and the water sprouts from these moms on all four […]
"Tortellone Testarossa" Is What We Call It
Today we drove over to a neighboring city that, like Bologna, doesn’t get enough attention from American travelers. That city is Modena, where Enzo Ferrari began making his classic sports cars in 1947. Like the market for private jets and oversized luxury vacation homes, the business of expensive cars is […]
A Delicious New Dish at La Noce Restaurant
This dish will soon be available at La Noce with a new name: ‘Tortellone Testarossa.’
In Bologna the Streets Are Alive at 12:30 AM
Bologna is well known in Italy as a center–a center geographically, a place where nearly all railroads and major highways intersect, in short the center of it all. Yet to Americans, few even know about this city. One person we told thought we were going to Germany when she heard […]
You Never Get Wet in Bologna
No matter what the weather is doing, strolling the sidewalks of this ancient city is a breeze with the covered porticos on all the major boulevards. The city is filled with 100,000 students and many of the streets are too small for a car to pass by. At twelve midnight […]
Journalists Talk About the Hot Topics in the News
Last night we drove out of the center of Bologna to the sprawling offices of a local newspaper chain called QN, where they publish many tabloid newspapers that serve different cities in Italy. Our hosts ushered us into an opulent executive board room, where we saw all of the newspapers […]
Bologna Welcomes Us with the Sound of Scooters
We have reached our destination, the hotel Al Capello Rosso, in the center of Bologna. We were beat from the trip so slept for a while but now the second wind is coming and we’re off to meet some folks who work for the local newspaper. Our tripmates are distinguished. […]
Don’t Cry for Terry Semel, He’s Still Got His Jet
We are in the Lounge at JFK, waiting for our 8 pm flight to Bologna. Time to read the NY Times and find out more about Terry Semel’s departure as head of Yahoo. I wrote about him a few months ago, and it didn’t take a fortune teller to predict […]
A China-based Rip-off of Our Good Work
Curse you JianWei Guo! I wish you evil and bad fortune for stealing our website and trying to make money from our labors. You’ll regret what you did! I felt my blood pressure rise today after I stumbled once again on a site that is based in LuoYang, China. It’s […]
Brad and Bo Help Springfield Wake Up
Brad and Bo helped me wake up this morning on their WHYN-AM morning show. I often think about these guys if for some reason I am awake at 5 am, that they are heading into work. Wow! That takes a special kind of discipline! I did a segment at 8 […]
"Strangely Compelling: " Tossing Bread to Carp
I read Saturday’s WSJ and quickly found a topic to write about: strangely compelling fish feeding in Pennsylvania. It seems that throwing bread to a swirling, aggressive bunch of carp is becoming a big tourist draw in Linesville, PA. It’s the Pymatuning State Park, and the state is pouring money […]