Fellow reporter and friend Eric Sylvers is on a one-man trek to rehabilitate Italy’s forgotten Via Francigena. Unlike Spain’s Camino de Santiago, this major pilgrimage route to Rome during Medieval times has been all but abandoned by walking enthusiasts. Hard to blame them: unlike the Spanish trail, this one is often unmarked and not set [...]
Rocco Siffredi, the Italian Stallion of porn, recently handed his legacy over to a bespectacled, overweight crossword expert. Well, sort of. Omar Monti, who came in second on the Italian version of “Beauty and the Geek,” now fills Siffredi’s considerable shoes in some potato chip ads. It’s one way to drum up publicity after equivocal [...]
A giant naked man floats face down in Milan’s Sempione Park. Looking a little like Mr. Bean and slightly deflated in the privates, “Balloon” is a work by Polish artist Pawel Althamer. The 21-meter long work is a self-portrait. No competition for the enormous memento mori lying next to the Duomo, it’s part of an [...]
