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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.
Illustration by Nicola Giorgio 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 ...
LAILAC/Japanese Festival 11am-8pm, November 23-25 Ippodromo del Visarno, piazzale delle Cascine 29, Florence Ph. Fulvio Chiari Japanese cultural association Lailac takes to the Cascine for the 20th edition of the ...
GOURMET/Biennale Enogastronomica November 16-19 Fortezza da Basso, viale Filippo Strozzi, Florence With its wide range of talks and tastings, let’s just say there will be plenty to chew on at ...
Money can’t buy love, at least according to the Beatles, but perhaps Santa Croce fundraising campaigns can help. Opera di Santa Croce, the lay association that oversees the Basilica of ...
Pet owners, present author not excluded, love to full-on gush about the joys that four-legged friends bring to our lives. While The Florentine’s print and online pet special is primarily a celebratory ...
DANCE/Shame 9pm, November 14 Teatro Puccini, via delle Cascine 41, Florence Just after Tuscany hosts its first-ever “Take Back the Night” event against sexual assault, and just ahead of the ...
On Facebook recently, an acquaintance put out one of those pseudo-“ask the audience” posts. You know the kind: ostensibly the person wants input, but really their mind is quite made ...
LAILAC/Japanese Festival 11am-8pm, November 23-25 Ippodromo del Visarno, piazzale delle Cascine 29, Florence Ph. Fulvio Chiari Japanese cultural association Lailac takes to the Cascine for the 20th edition of the ...
Pups peeking out of bike baskets or strutting down sidewalks are found at every turn in Florence, but the Shop Dog is a specific, smile-boosting breed of canine found here in droves.
LEONARDO/Codex Leicester October 29-January 20, 2019 Uffizi Galleries, piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the not-too-shabby name behind the Uffizi’s next blockbuster exhibition, The Codex Leicester. Water, ...
LAUGHS/TSH Comedy Club: Matteo Lane October 24, 9.30pm The Student Hotel, viale Spartaco Lavagnini 70-72, Florence Splashy complex and community center The Student Hotel has a new series set to revive ...
EXPLORE/Open Week: Villa La Pietra October 15-20 Villa La Pietra, via Bolognese 120, Florence Open Week at Villa La Pietra is a rare chance to explore the grounds of NYU ...
Sex and the City’s writing-by-the-window sage “couldn’t help but wonder” about a lot of things, rarely speaking in the cadence of certainty. One of the exceptions was her oft-quoted proclamation ...
Around here there’s a saying—or rather, a general consensus—that the shoulder seasons no longer exist. But the crisp autumn breezes timidly moving through the city as this issue goes to ...
In the aftermath of a Linkiesta article that detailed behind-the-curtain contractual issues for participating artists in Palazzo Strozzi’s blockbuster exhibition Marina Abramović. The Cleaner—a September 6 story that prompted Fondazione ...
AUDIO/Sonic Somatic October 5-7 Serre Torrigiani, via Gusciana 21, Florence After last year’s noteworthy Novoli-headquartered edition, sound-centered festival Sonic Somatic makes a comeback, this time touching down in Serre Torrigiani, ...
CHARITY/Corri La Vita September 30 Starting point: Cascine Park Keep your eyes peeled for purple T-shirts on September 30, or wear one yourself to help in the fight against breast ...
PINK/L’Eredità delle Donne September 21-23 Various venues in Florence Television personality Serena Dandini is the artistic director and force of nature behind new large-scale Florence festival L’Eredita’ delle Donne, twinned ...
ACROBATIC/CirkFantastik! September 13-23 Cascine Park (viale degli Olmi/piazzale del Re), Florence Take a break from “juggling” everything in your everyday life and escape to the circus. The Cascine will soon ...
Now that we—in the EU, at least—are all sick of the GDPR and would gift Lucifer our cookie consent on a Christmas tray if it meant the link would just ...
PERFORMANCE/Marina Abramović: The Cleaner September 21-January 20, 2018 Palazzo Strozzi, piazza Strozzi, Florence The Palazzo Strozzi “playbill” has sharpened its contemporary edge in recent years with explosive exhibitions from leading ...
Gilded crosses top the onion domes of Florence’s Russian Orthodox church, but that didn’t stop a confused stranger from pointing Izzeddin Elzir in its direction back in 1991 as he ...
First August in Florence? This is the month of shop closures and “chiuso per ferie” signs as most residents run for the beach. Outdoor cinema and cultural events are still ...
UP AND AT ‘EM/Sunrise concert July 28, 4.45am Chiostro degli Uomini in the Innocenti Institute, Florence Concerts in piazza Santissima Annunziata continue this week as the MusArt Festival enters its second ...
