June 2010
La nuova politica di mercato ha fruttato finora soltanto denunce per stalking e violazione di domicilio. Che, ad ogni modo, è sempre meglio di pagare uno stipendio a Mancini.” —un tamas al giorno: 52
In the wake of The New Yorker’s recent “20 Under 40” list of gifted fiction writers who have not yet reached age 40, the literary community has turned its attention to even younger emerging talent.
Anyone who thinks it would be easy to get rich selling marijuana in a state where it’s legal should spend an hour with Ravi Respeto, manager of the Farmacy, an upscale dispensary here that offers Strawberry Haze, Hawaiian Skunk and other strains of Cannabis sativa at up to $16 a gram. She will harsh your mellow. “No M.B.A. program could have prepared me for this experience,” she says, wearing a cream-colored smock made of hemp. “People have this misconception that you just jump into it and start making money hand over fist, and that is not the case.”
It’s not that Ponte Vecchio has never changed. It has been altered continuously since 1345 when this structure, the city’s “Old Bridge,” went up over the Arno. But design-by-accretion (and -subtraction) works slowly and carefully in Florence, providing a lens on the city’s layered history.