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31 October 2012

Film review: Another Woman (1988) by Woody Allen, ***

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Synopsis Woody Allen's 17th film. Gena Rowland plays Marion, an academic who rents a flat in which to write a book on philosophy and...
27 October 2012

Film review: Sideways (2004) by Alexander Payne, *****

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Synopsis Comedy drama which follows Miles ( Paul Giamatti ), an unsuccessful novelist, and Jack ( Thomas Haden Church ), an equally un...
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22 October 2012

Proiezione fotogafica: BLEEDING BLOSSOMS di Shades of Women

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L'associazione Shades of Women propone per il secondo anno una interessante serie di proiezioni di reportage di fotografe in giro per...
09 October 2012

Film review: Lust, Caution (2007) by Ang Lee, ****

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Synopsis After Brokeback Mountain and The Hulk , multitalented director Ang Lee returns to Asia with this Mandarin-language erotic dra...
04 October 2012

Book review/Recensione: Non dire nulla (2012), di Paola Viola, *****

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Review Paola Viola spent a few months in Kenya for an NGO ( Una Mano per un Sorriso - For Children ). Paola started taking pictures not ...
15 September 2012

Book review: Andrew Zimmern visits Taiwan (2009) by Andrew Zimmern, *

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making dim sum in a Taipei restaurant Synopsis One chapter of a book about the author traveling around the world to try different f...
09 September 2012

Book review: The Dark Tourist (2010), by Dom Joly, ***

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Sinister looking WW I artillery on Monte Grappa Synopsis 'Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions ...
08 September 2012

Book review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance (1974), by Robert Pirsig *****

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She does not look zen (Sorong, Indonesia) Synopsis A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen a...
02 September 2012

Singapore: Gardens by the Bay and Japanese food

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Started off after breakfast from my hotel and decided to visit the new Gardens by the Bay . Like almost everything in Singapore, it is an ...
01 September 2012

Film review: Mondovino (2004) by Jonathan Nossiter, **

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Synopsis Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter, who loves wine, looks at the international wine business. He offers his personal view of how business ...

Party at Sentosa, Singapore

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Today I am invited to join a party on one of the beaches of Sentosa , an island just off Singapore's south-western coast. Getting to the...
31 August 2012

Emily of Emerald Hill and the Peranakan Museum, Singapore

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Peranakan Museum in Singapore Today I visited this unique museum in Singapore, dedicated to the Peranakan , or Chinese from the Malay pe...
30 August 2012

Dim Sum in Singapore

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Marina Bay Sands, Din Tai Fung restaurant, probably among the best dim sum in the world. ...
27 August 2012

Books and films on Singapore

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work in progress Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore (2003), by James Warren, ***** A people's history of Singapor...
25 August 2012

Breakfast and identity in Bali, Indonesia

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I am about to have a delightful breakfast in the terrace of my hotel in Bali, which is adjacent to some fastidiously manicured rice terraces...