Author Silvia, founder at The Shortlisted Magazine

We both stand behind his office door in silence, waiting for him to let us in. We don't even bother acknowledging each other's presence. The more I contemplate her spotty face and exaggeratedly upright postur...

This story starts a long time ago, even before I was born. If you have a clue about what the theatrical tradition is like in Italy and how important the Neapolitan theatre and comedy has always been there, you ...

They say that March comes like a lion and goes like a lamb, but in my opinion they tend to forget all the Aries paraphernalia in between. In fact, keeping up with some Aries might not be easy if you are, for e...

If I'm being honest, my forever favourite candidate from the BBC Apprentice 2018 was tree surgeon Tom Bunday, as you might remember from my last year's The Apprentice player ratings. Quiet, reassuring and stil...

I have been living my life intentionally and happily ignoring the world of podcasts. It has always been my belief that ears are made either to listen to music or to do not listen to unwanted life advice from y...

© 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...