so i'm watching this show on european travel, earlier it was on umbria and tuscany. right now they're covering london and i've realized my lazy ass has taken much of that city for granted.or maybe the show just makes it seem more exciting and neat.i've never walked across the millenium bridge.i gues...

More and more of us dream of escaping the rat race - last week it emerged 34,000 people had applied for a single job on an Australian island. Here Amanda Hyzler describes what taking the plunge is really like, and four other life-shifters describe their experiences We are both in our early 40s and s...

ACT the SECONDwherein the noble COUNT reccollects old WOUNDS   They overtook the lead elements of the army four miles up the road. The host was crossing the new canal between the Brenta and the Bacchiglione. Here they caught up with the commander of the foot soldiers, Vanni Scornigiani. Called...

An organic farm in the green hills of Umbria, Italy, proposes an unusual gift idea for Christmas: Adoption of an olive tree, a present that will help to preserve nature. The olive tree is one of the oldest cultivated plants of humanity. Since antique times it is a symbol for peace, longevity, health...

Woo-hoo!! Thank you Joe! The snow is falling thick and fast but the memories of mussels, tiny Manilla clams and cobia linger on. Umbria may be land locked and meat-centric, but living in the Wasatch mountains of Utah really makes......

Rachel Cusk is a prodigiously gifted novelist whose black comedies of domestic compromise and claustrophobia are so merciless that they are painful to read. She has exposed herself in memoir once before: A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother differed from the usual narratives of transformation in that...

So, I was on the bus the other day, cheerfully folding away and rocking out to an old Bowie/Eno song and got to thinking about culture. The song was ostensibly about culture, you see — Bowie says: It’s not as truly hostile about Americans as say “Born in the U.S.A.”: it’...

Hal Espo, President of Contextual Connections, LLC interviews Glenn S. Goldberg, President Information & Media, The McGraw-Hill Companies. McGraw-Hill has a global footprint in which it delivers both traditional media and enterprise information products. "Content really matters," Notes Goldberg,...

No news on the pending Jazz Consumer Guide column. It's in the Voice's mill and presumably will come out sooner or later. I'm preoccupied with work on my house. Taking spare moments to keep from falling too far behind, but time for working on this is limited. I expect it to get far worse over the ne...

DEWEY’S CIRCLE David Murray Ming Black Saint : 1980 BUY DM, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Olu Dara, trumpet; Lawrence “Butch” Morris, cornet; George Lewis, trombone; Henry Threadgill, alto sax; Anthony Davis, piano; Wilber Morris, bass; Steve McCall, drums. MOON WALTZ John Carter Dance...