

A Caturday Post
Since life is basically what happens to you between two sessions of browsing cat pictures on the Internet, I thought I'd enrich the...


Gods, Aubergines and The Volcano- Sicilian Holiday Part Three
Some years ago I reached the breaking point where I had read about all the Scandinavian crime literature a sane human being can handle...


Din nou despre marfă și bani în jurnalismul local...
Vom vorbi acum și aici de bani. Și de marfă. Marfă și bani, ca să parafrazăm titlul unui film celebru din noua cinematografie românească....


Eternal Confusion of the Infinite Bus- Sicilian Holiday Part Two
First things first: because we are inept travelers who love their pint or three of something, we generally skip the hire a car part,...


Cu Vargas Llosa despre moartea culturii
Îmi iau libertatea ca acum, înaintea campaniei de toamnă în toate cele, să mă opresc preț de șapte mii de caractere – nu din alea,...


Into the South- Sicilian Holiday Part One
It might seem odd, but for a country which is, insert super useful info here, a peninsula, I had never associated Italy with the sea. Or,...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #1: Editors
I could theoretically come up with a spectacular and convoluted story about how I spent more of those restless nights musing over whom to...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #2: The Last Shadow Puppets
For about five fractions of a second I was planning to pen a super objective review which would make no reference whatsoever to the...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #3: Aurora
It’s of course easy to say that when you’re stuck somewhere in a Norwegian fjord, where for the better part of the year it’s either...


Best Concerts of Sziget 2016 #4 Ceza
The temptation to portray yourself as a sophisticated know it all of the festival circuit has led many to pen list upon list of the least...