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© Verde Pistacchio - 2019 It is freezing as hell and I just want to go home - but I'm already home. This is my Rome and I'm in Via Nazionale, a busy shopping street packed full of tourists, similar to Rege...

After attending Take That's musical The Band, and publishing a review titled If Your Full-Time Job in the 90s Was Following Take That, Read This, I was given the opportunity to interview Five to Five, the guys ...

This is a career magazine, not an entertainment blog, but there is a specific career-related reason I'm writing a theatre review today, and a little bit of context won't hurt. A couple of years ago, I told you ...

The first time I bumped into something labelled by Armani I was about eleven or twelve. At that age, any pre-teenager is quite a lot into collections. It was the late 90s and, as far as I can remember, I was c...

There are certain men out there that - as soon as you meet them - they make you immediately want to bump into them when you are desperate for driving directions: Andrew Bloch is one of them. Calm, confident, cl...

The series 14 of the BBC Apprentice kicks off this Wednesday 3rd of October 2018 at 9 PM on BBC1, and I'm really into it. This year has been a quite Apprentice-related one for me and this magazine, as I've int...

They call them soft skills, and I find this definition quite silly, to be honest, especially when applied to certain industries and the people working there. For example, Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory w...

Twelve years ago, just after graduating with a BA in Whatever, I packed a school backpack with: - A Lonely Planet travel guide - A portable cassette player - A black winter coat - Wool jumpers and cardiga...

Once upon a time, in a beautiful night of a beautiful Summer of an odd year, a brown-eyed guy - a married brown-eyed guy - comes your way, uninvited, just to make a big mess out of your whole life, unauthorised...

On a freezing morning back in 2014, I was commuting from a shared house in Surrey Quays to the blue-carpeted office near Kensington, in London. It must have been December as there were only a couple of weeks le...