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Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Music from exciting live performances at an Italian jazz festival. A new issue from Motema Music is a little bit of a different animal. Dal Vivo A Umbria Jazz features jazz guitarist/vocalist K.J. Denhert in a collection of live performances from the Italian Umbria jazz festival. It's a follow-up to her successful Lucky 7 album from earlier this year and includes some of the same songs...
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Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
A new issue from Motema Music is a little bit of a different animal. Dal Vivo A Umbria Jazz features jazz guitarist/vocalist K.J. Denhert in a collection of live performances from the Italian Umbria jazz festival. It’s a follow-up to her successful Lucky 7 album from earlier this year and includes some of the same [...]
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Good Wine Under $20 (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
This month's trip through the wines of Umbria ends on a high note with a very good QPR white wine made with a distinctive grape called Grechetto. Grechetto is not, strictly speaking, an indigenous Italian grape. Its origins can be found in Greece (hence the name) and has been used extensively as a blending grape. In Lazio, for instance, the Antinori family blends Grechetto with Chardonnay to...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
Buona sera from Umbria ItalyI have not had much luck accessing the internet in the last week. In Rome I was too sleep deprived or too busy seeing the Vatican. In Bari where we stayed the night before we began our bike trip I did not try and at the 3 ldquohotelsrdquo we stayed at during our bike trip only one ldquotrulyrdquo had an Internet connectionmdashand that one had the one c
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Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
“At midnight on the first Sunday of the 2008 Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, an impromptu party was in full swing on the cobblestone streets outside Teatro Pavone, a horseshoe-shaped, five-tiered acoustic marvel from 1740. Inside, however, about 250 listeners paid close attention as the Bill Frisell Trio, with bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny [...]
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Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
The Numerati by Stephen Baker This book is about measuring people. It visits the companies and individuals that are creating the mathematics to measure and track people. IBM is seeking to track all of its 50,000 workers using complex social networking software. The company, Umbria, has created software to track blogs. Casinos are trying to find cheats in the least intrusive way possible. The...
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Stephen Baker - The Numerati (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
News via Matthew Hurst about GeeYee , a company that like so many others (including Umbria , in the book) rifles automatically through online content looking for market intelligence. GeeYee has a speciality: It looks not only at what different kinds of people think about products and services, but also focuses on specific features. This means that a car company could look at how its transmission...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
A new witness may cast doubt on defendant Amanda Knox's alibi in the death of roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy, court officials said.The witness came forward just two weeks before the start of Knox's trial in the death and sexual assault of Kercher, a British student studying in Perugia in Umbria, The Times of London reported Monday. Also accused is Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's one-time Italian...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Just over two weeks before the trial begins of Amanda Knox, the American student accused of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher at Perugia in Umbria, a new eyewitness has reportedly come forward with evidence which if accepted would appear to cast doubt on Ms Knox’s alibi.
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The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Meredith Kercher Murder Case - The Italian Press is reporting that three new witnesses have emerged. The Journal of Umbria is being given credit for the original scoop, but the prosecutor's office in Perugia is being very close-mouthed about the matter. New elements in the attempts to reconstruct the scenario of the crime include: an old Peugeot parked in the cottage yard. And at least one other...
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Roger's Plog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
I was lucky enough to be invited to the very first Trevi Noir festival in Umbria, Italy at the weekend. Many thanks to the event organisers, Michael Jacob and Daniela de Gregorio, the husband and wife writing team who are together Michael Gregorio , author of Critique of Criminal Reason and Days of Atonement . Two fabulously dark and gripping books, by the way. I did a full round-up of Trevi...
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robertfranciswine (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
In the latest episode of www.robertfranciswine.ie I try an interesting white blend from Umbria in Italy. Make sure to leave a comment or send me an email if you have any feedback ! See ya next time on robertfranciswine
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
There was a chocolate festival going on in Perugia last night. The ancient hilltop city was thronging with thousands of people from all over Umbria. It made for a surreal atmosphere as the city prepared itself for the latest installment of the tragic story that has won it worldwide notoriety. The judge in the case of three people accused of killing the British student Meredith Kercher will...
