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Mary Gray is a freelance writer, reporter, and the former events editor of The Florentine. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Forbes Travel Guide, Time Out and Dream of Italy, and she teaches travel writing and fashion media for university programs in Florence. Her M.A. is in Italian from Middlebury and her straniera stripes are from the school of life.
BESTSELLER/GIFTalks: Lisa Halliday March 20, 6.30pm Gonzaga in Florence, via La Pira 11/13, Florence In collaboration with TheFLR. The Florentine Literary Review, Gonzaga University in Florence is launching GIFTalks: Incontri ...
Have you ever had “comeback sauce”? Originating in the American South, like your author, it’s a spicy catch-all (ketch-all?) condiment, a dubious blend of mayo, paprika, garlic and chili sauce, ...
FOOD/Taste March 9-11 Stazione Leopolda, viale Fratelli Rosselli 5, Florence Whet your appetite for what’s sure to be a palate-pleasing edition of Taste, Pitti Immagine’s annual fair celebrating Italian food, ...
Many years have passed since I last watched the beloved 1968 British musical Oliver!, but the prepubescent cherub voices of the movie’s orphan boys often ring out in my head. Every ...
FOOD/Taste March 9-11 Stazione Leopolda, viale Fratelli Rosselli 5, Florence Whet your appetite for what’s sure to be a palate-pleasing edition of Taste, Pitti Immagine’s annual fair celebrating Italian food, ...
SHIMMER/BRIGHT Festival February 21-23 Stazione Leopolda and The Student Hotel, Florence Illuminate your mind this month with the inaugural edition of BRIGHT Festival, a celebration of digital arts, lighting design, ...
Looking specifically for Valentine’s Day ideas? Head here. SHIMMER/BRIGHT Festival February 21-23 Stazione Leopolda and The Student Hotel, Florence Illuminate your mind this month with the inaugural edition of BRIGHT ...
VINTAGE/Wine previews February 10 & 12 Fortezza da Basso & Stazione Leopolda, Florence Cin cin to—’tis the season of wine previews! The Consorzio Vino Chianti’s splashy showcase Chianti Lovers ...
Filmmaker Alessandro Cassigoli is not all that prolific an Instagramer, by the looks of it. He hasn’t posted anything in close to two months, and has yet to reach the ...
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but in the sixth grade I almost nabbed first place at my school’s spelling bee. (Please hold your applause until the end, ...
SHIMMER/BRIGHT Festival February 21-23 Stazione Leopolda and The Student Hotel, Florence Illuminate your mind this month with the inaugural edition of BRIGHT Festival, a celebration of digital arts, lighting design, ...
MUSIC/Verone Jazz Throughout January and February Caffe’ del Verone, piazza Ss. Annunziata 13, Florence Jazz up your January at this evening concert-with-a-view, the last in this month’s lineup at Caffè ...
HOPS/Brewer of the Year January 18-20 TuscanyHall (ex-Teatro Tenda at the Obihall), via Fabrizio de’ Andre/lungarno Aldo Moro, Florence The Fermento Birra network is behind Florence’s splashiest event for the ...
D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry James: rattling off the names of famous English-tongued Italophiles is easy for most Anglos who have themselves fallen under the country’s spell. Alan Moorehead, ...
I grew up attending an Episcopal church in Mississippi, which felt a bit like swimming on the moon. Our priest once remarked in a sermon that if a Mississippian hears ...
HOPS/Brewer of the Year January 18-20 TuscanyHall (ex-Teatro Tenda at the Obihall), via Fabrizio de’ Andre/lungarno Aldo Moro, Florence The Fermento Birra network is behind Florence’s splashiest event for the ...
2019 has been hyped as the year of Leonardo, with initiatives planned to mark the 500th anniversary of his death. But the Renaissance man has some competition in Catherine de’ ...
EPIPHANY/Cavalcata dei Magi From 2pm, January 6 Piazza Pitti to piazza Duomo, Florence Florence’s festive season is winding down, and the ceremonial closing act comes on January 6, the ...
MUSICAL/West Side Story December 18-22 Teatro del Maggio Musicale, piazza Vittorio Gui 1, Florence One hundred years after the birth of composer-conductor-musical giant Leonard Bernstein, revival shows and remembrance initiatives ...
MUSICAL/West Side Story December 13-16, 18-22 Teatro del Maggio Musicale, piazza Vittorio Gui 1, Florence One hundred years after the birth of composer-conductor-musical giant Leonard Bernstein, revival shows and remembrance ...
INDIA/River to River December 6-11 Cinema La Compagnia and various venues in Florence Ph. Majlend Bramo (from “Like sugar in milk”) Immerse yourself in India without setting foot outside Florence ...
My first year and a half or so in Italy was spent grasping at any sort of anchoring point. For a brief period in this trial-by-fire, I bunked—“lived” would be ...
“Gradually and then suddenly” was how Hemingway said one goes bankrupt. It’s also how something far more fun tends to take shape: city Christmas light displays. The first lights ...
