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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.
DOWN-HOME/Florence Folks Festival July 25-28 Ex-Manifattura Tabacchi, via delle Cascine 33-35, Florence Which of Florence’s many summer music festivals will ultimately be the most memorable? The answer may be “blowin’ ...
"Fiaccherai" and animal rights activists saddle up for summer debates
ITINERANT/mArgine Teatro July 14-15, 7pm Starting point: piazza dell’Isolotto, Florence Artistic collective inQuanto teatro has teamed up with the ballerinas and hip-hoppers of the LUV Dance Movement to create an ...
2018 IBCPC Participatory Dragon Boat Festival – July 6-8 Info here. DEBUT/African Diaspora Cinema Festival July 5-8 Villa Romana, via Senese 68, Florence With its new status as a ...
You might remember a scene in Annie Hall that takes place after the titular character and Alvy Singer have parted ways. Alvy receives a frantic 3am phone call, rushing across ...
ARCHITECTURE/Nel Chiostro delle Geometrie Until September 28 Santa Verdiana complex, piazza Ghiberti 27, Florence Ph. A. Bianciardi The drama and dynamism of architecture are the central themes of Nel Chiostro ...
Keith Ferrone, co-artistic director of the long-running Florence Dance Festival, sounds like a giddy teenager when he speaks about this year’s month-long edition. Such ebullience from a festival veteran ...
HOGWARTS/Quidditch World Cup June 27-July 2Piazza Santa Croce and Cerreti sports complex, Florence “Muggles” still in mourning after never receiving their Hogwarts acceptance letters will have a second shot at ...
SPIRITUAL/Festa della Cultura, San Giovanni Battista June 18-24 Various venues in Florence Part sacred arts festival, part community celebration, the Festa della Cultura San Giovanni Battista pays homage to Florence’s ...
In an exercise of sound judgment, the powers-that-be here at The Florentine recently barred me from posting photographs I’ve taken on TF’s channels without first consulting him. I mean them. ...
Via Porta Rossa is a strange bridge between Florentine drags. Despite the signage pointing toward Florence’s main monuments, the street’s nondescript starting point from piazza Santa Trinita is oddly alley-like, ...
MENSWEAR/Pitti Uomo June 12-15 Fortezza da Basso, viale Filippo Strozzi, Florence A past edition of Pitti Uomo / Ph. @marcobadiani World-famous menswear fair Pitti Uomo will enter its ...
HOGWARTS/Quidditch World Cup June 27-July 2Piazza Santa Croce and Cerreti sports complex, Florence “Muggles” still in mourning after never receiving their Hogwarts acceptance letters will have a second shot at ...
Massimiliano Petragallo, a longtime calciante for the Rossi (Reds) of Santa Maria Novella who first joined their ranks in 1995, swears he wouldn’t mind if his only son were to ...
FASHION/Italy in Hollywood May 25-March 10, 2019 Ferragamo Museum, piazza Santa Trinita 5r, Florence With its next exhibition, the Ferragamo Museum will take visitors on a “well-heeled” stroll down Hollywood ...
SPRING/Artigianato e Palazzo May 17-20Giardino Corsini, via della Scala 115, Florence Artigianato e Palazzo is one of the “musts” of Florentine May. Roughly 100 Italian and international artisans and designers ...
PONTORMO/Miraculous Encounters: the Albardiere returns to Florence Ongoing until July 29Sala delle Nicchie, Palazzo Pitti, Florence Pontormo’s Visitation, which will also be on display at the exhibitionJust a few short ...
Tutto incluso. “All-inclusive.” What a difference these two words make in a housing listing. Having the costs of water, gas, electricity—and in certain otherworldly apartments, WiFi—factored in to a ...
It’s Orthodox Easter Sunday and a small group has gathered for a celebratory meal in Florence’s Swiss-owned “English” cemetery. Julia Bolton Holloway, the space’s longtime resident tenant, holds up a ...
From tots to teens, Florence’s younger population gets a made-to-measure May weekend of activities with the return of Firenze dei Bambini from May 4 to 6. “Ingenuity” is the ...
MOVIES/Dragon Film Festival May 3-8 La Compagnia, Florence + Centro Pecci, Prato The Chinese world is the centerpiece of the fifth Dragon Film Festival, the grand finale of the Primavera ...
SHIFTS/#NuovoNovecento Ongoing; current exhibition until July 12 Museo Novecento, piazza Santa Maria Novella 10, Florence Outside that Santa Maria Novella stronghold, the former Leopoldine complex-turned-20th-century-museum, you may have noticed a ...
BLOSSOM/Gardens, flower markets and more Throughout April and May Various venues in Florence Florence gets flowery with the reopening of the Iris Garden, a seasonal spectacle open April 25 to ...
