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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Today’s WSJ included a story about a man they call ‘The Statue.” He’s Jose Tomas, Spain’s most famous and legendary modern bullfighter, and this Sunday he has all of the nation’s eyes upon him. Though the sport is having a tough time, Tomas might be its second coming. In a […]
Today’s WSJ includes a profile of Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman. He’s one of the people who make the most money of anyone on earth. He buys and sells companies, and does it with such ruthlessness that he’s made millions. And now that the company is going public, his take will be […]
One of my favorite things about living and working in a close knit neighborhood is the intimacy between all of us, whose working lives intersect in so many ways. We do business together, drink coffee together and laugh at each other’s jokes. Mornings in the cafe, I am surrounded by […]
David Blum writes in the NY Sun that the Sopranos has elevated the common bloggers and showed that the mainstream critics don’t matter much any more. Here is his commentary on the despised final episode. “At his blog “The House Next Door,” the erudite Matt Zoller Seitz (also of the […]