Mini Culture Presents
As often is the case in Italy, the countercultural heart of the Oltrarno is on the street, artists lead the way in the Oltrarno District of Florence. On a midsummer afternoon in the courtyard of a former convent, a musical performance illustrated the shape of changes taking hold in the Oltrarno district of Florence.
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Cooking Up Luck for the New Year: In this week’s Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman explores traditional lucky foods from around the world.
Read MoreFontainebleau is so much a part of the French imagination, it’s so full of history, legend and weirdness. Wadering off the path and heading up one of the house-sized granite formations that rise up from the pine-needle floor of the Fontainebleau forest, I came face-to-face with two French painters.
Read MoreMedicare officials on Wednesday detailed plans to distribute billions of dollars to upgrade the nation’s paper medical records to electronic files. Under the proposal, doctors and hospitals that keep updated electronic medical records of their patients could receive bonus payments for using the software.
Read MoreSOUTHERN FRANCE is always Picasso country, what actrack travellers is the beach at Antibes with the Musée Picasso in the background.This season is an especially good time to follow Picasso’s trail on the Riviera and in Provence. Two major exhibitions explore pivotal themes in his long and varied career.
Read MoreMany women at risk for breast cancer do not accept to undergo M.R.I. tests, often saying they have claustrophobia and cannot tolerate the closed machines required for breast imaging. One-fourth of the women who refused said they had claustrophobia, and just under one-fifth cited time constraints.
Read MoreThere is evidence that smoking bans outside New York City may also be losing their bite. USA Today reported last month that bars in Chicago and Honolulu as well as in Ohio and Virginia were openly defying bans.
Read MoreAlthough it is too early to write the obituary for swine flu, already assessing how the first pandemic in 40 years has been handled, have found that while luck played a part, a series of rapid by federal officials worked out better than many had dared hope. The outbreak highlighted many national weaknesses: old, slow vaccine technology; too much reliance on foreign vaccine factories; some major hospitals pushed to their limits by a relatively mild epidemic.
Read MoreTourists today tend to gravitate to its few remnants — the baths in the Cluny Museum, traces from when Paris was Roman. PARIS, or Lutetia, as it was known in ancient Gaul, was sacked, fortified and rebuilt by the Romans.
Read MoreIt’s said that Ireland, once visited, is never forgotten. The Irish landscape has a mythic resonance, the country’s history is almost tangible.
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