Era un sabato pomeriggio come tanti quello di 32 anni fa, il 23 maggio del 1992.
Io non vivevo più a casa con i miei genitori e di solito il sabato andavo sempre a trovarli e, insieme a loro, ci recavamo a casa di mia nonna materna che abitava al piano di sopra.
Era un modo per passare dei momenti lieti, si cenava tutti insieme, una tradizione a cui tenevamo per mantenere ancora più saldo l’affetto familiare.
La nonna nella sua cucina aveva sempre un piccolo televisore acceso, le piaceva guardare un po' di tutto mentre si dedicava a cucinare, le piaceva, per lei era un momento di ritrovo familiare.
Ma quel sabato pomeriggio, un tragico evento, avrebbe trasformato quei momenti lieti in una sensazione di amarezza e di sconforto.
Ad un certo punto, le trasmissioni TV che stavano andando in onda, furono interrotte per dar spazio ad un’edizione straordinaria del telegiornale, nella quale venne annunciato il terribile e vile attentato di stampo terroristico-mafioso, nel tratto di autostrada A29 in prossimità dello svincolo di Capaci, attentato nel quale persero la vita i giudici Giovanni Falcone e Francesca Morvillo, moglie del magistrato, e tre dei cinque uomini della scorta Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo e Antonio Montinaro.
Mia madre, donna di una sensibilità fuori dal comune, che si metteva a piangere anche quando apprendeva in tv la morte di un attore o di un attrice, appresa la notizia dell’attentato scoppiò a piangere, cercai di consolarla con un abbraccio.
In quel momento tutto sembrava perduto, sconforto e rabbia era in ogni cittadino palermitano e ancora non potevamo immaginare quello che sarebbe successo da lì a un paio di mesi dopo, il 19 luglio 1992, dove ancora un atroce attentato di stampo mafioso avrebbe ucciso il giudice Paolo Borsellino e gli uomini e una donna della sua scorta.
Proprio il giudice Paolo Borsellino, dopo la morte del suo amico Giovanni, in un suo discorso disse:
“CHI HA PAURA MUORE OGNI GIORNO. CHI NON HA PAURA, MUORE UNA VOLTA SOLA”.
Lo scorso anno ho realizzato un piccolo video, che ripropongo, dedicandolo a Giovanni, Francesca, Vito, Rocco ed Antonio.
I recently began watching this magnificent series called 'Heeramandi' and I am already in love with it's cinematography and aesthetics ❤️
You should definitely give it a watch!
“The sky shows us the way and the ancestors watch over us. And the stars remind us that they will continue to take care of us as long as we are on this Earth.” (by @megoizzy for BBC Travel)
Earlier today, OpenAI announced that it would no longer be using a its "Sky" voice for its new chatbot. They didn’t say why, but the voice sounded a lot like Scarlett Johansson’s, despite the fact that the Hollywood star had declined to offer her voice to the company. Read more from NBC News, including how Johansson reacted: https://flip.it/IQYBUQ #Culture#Entertainment#AI#Hollywood#ScarlettJohansson
Memorial Day is a week away in the U.S., and for many Americans it's the unofficial beginning of summer — and the start of grilling season. Food And Wine has put together this list of 27 recipes to kick off the season with some flavor (whoever thought of red velvet cake ice cream sandwiches is a genius). From ultimate loaded chili-topped hot dogs to grilled vegetable flatbread with smoked almond muhammara, here’s your inspiration. https://flip.it/x3AR.Y #Culture#Food#Grilling#Barbecue#Picnic#Beverages
English speakers have the distinct benefit of using the world’s most common language when traveling. So you’re good, right? In fact, learning the obvious and necessary words and sayings of the country to which you’re traveling can make your trip easier, impress a few locals and enrich your experience. From greetings to asking for help, Fodors breaks it down. https://flip.it/fw6LLQ #Culture#Travel#Traveling#Language
“There’s nothing more masculine than a strong man supporting a strong woman,” Eddie Vedder told a sold-out crowd during Pearl Jam’s Saturday night show in Las Vegas. Vedder was responding to the divisive speech given by NFL player Harrison Butker at Benedict College last weekend in which the placekicker said, among other things, “to be unapologetic in your masculinity.” Heavy.com has more, including the NSFW video of Vedder underscoring what he called “the irony” of Butker’s speech. https://flip.it/mvgJqd #Culture#Entertainment#Music#PearlJam#EddieVedder
38e Championnat international des jeux mathématiques et logiques
Le samedi 25 mai se tiendra à l’EPFL la finale suisse du 38e Championnat international des jeux mathématiques et logiques. Le Musée Bolo ouvrira ses portes de 13h30 à 17h.
Entrée: libre
Visite guidée: gratuite
Horaire: 13h30 à 17h
If you watched movies and TV in the 1980s, you knew Dabney Coleman for his comic roles in “9 to 5,” “Tootsie,” and “Buffalo Bill.” Coleman died Thursday at 92, his daughter Quincy Coleman told The Hollywood Reporter. “My father crafted his time here on Earth with a curious mind, a generous heart and a soul on fire with passion, desire and humor that tickled the funny bone of humanity,” she said in a statement. From Lily Tomlin to Ben Stiller, fellow actors are also paying tribute to the award-winning actor. THR has more: https://flip.it/huRaxh #Culture#Entertainment#TV#Movies
Culture is a mono-culture of the white middle-class & who can be surprised after the cuts in arts education, the prevalence of early career unpaid internships & the normal operations of day-to-day prejudice of commissioning from people who look like you.
In the 1960s, there was a glorious moment when the culture industries seemed to be opening up to the working class... but over recent decades that door has been forced close by policy wrought by the rich(er)!
You seldom see strong fashion stories on @medium (a shame IMO, because we all wear clothes and they say so much about us). But the young Medium writer Jee Young Park show how well they can work in this story that defends the controversial 2024 MetGala by showing how much she valued the museum as a Korean-American growing up in New Jersey:
BINI members Maloi from Batangas and Aiah from Cebu challenge each other to guess the meaning of common phrases in their native languages Tagalog (Batangueño dialect) and Cebuano.
Magic: The Gathering has come a long way since it debuted at Gen Con in 1993. Last year, it became a billion-dollar brand. The genius behind it, mathematician Richard Garfield, left Wizards of the Coast, Magic's publisher, shortly after it was sold to Hasbro in 1999 and has subsequently expressed an apparent disillusionment with what the game has become. Defector's Nick Zarzycki interviewed him about this, his perception of the existential threats to Magic, and why he left the company. [Story may be paywalled]
Culturally, The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 was the epitome of the 90s in Britain and pre-dated, perhaps even laid the foundations for the media revolution that predicated Cool Britainnia and with it, Blair's political popularity.
It was live, anarchic, bright, irreverent and very Channel 4. It's place in media history is often overlooked, but I suspect it has more influence on the socio-political zeitgeist than it's given credit for...
Les #artistes de la #Corée du Sud jouissent d'une popularité qui ne faiblit pas, que ce soit à la télé, au cinéma ou encore dans le monde de la musique. Au contraire, l'industrie #culturelle sud-coréenne est désormais l'une des plus puissantes de la planète.