Sometimes the people you travel with can give you as much interesting information as the local guides. We found this out every night at dinner when our friend Stefano Vaccara would share his thoughts about Italy over glasses of wine and bowls of pasta in Bologna. Our last night found […]
Today’s journey was on a crowded back road to the lovely town of Ravenna, near the Adriatic coast. Since it was Saturday, the autostrada was crowded so our driver chose to take us through small towns from Bologna. Ravenna once had more than 200 churches, we learned from our beautiful […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tomorrow morning I’ll rise a little earlier than usual. That’s because I am joining Tom Vannah of the Valley Advocate on his new radio show at 6:30 am. The Van Man has his new gig and it’s going strong weekdays from 5:30 till 9. He’s the morning man on the […]