Joelle Lifestyle - The World at Home

If you happened to visit the brand new, cleaner Naples this July, angels were by your side! I am referring to the magnificent and exceptional three-night majestic and illuminated Piazza Plebiscito held under the stars. In front of a Neapolitan audience of thousands, conductor Zubin Metha, ballet star Roberto Bolle and the king of taramblu, Pino Daniele, revived Naples as the former capital of music and international arts.

This year entitled “The Garden of Delights” Il Ballo del Doge was held on the 2nd of February at Palazzo Pisani Moretta, at 20.30; Grand Gala party in period costume defined by the international press as “one of the world’s 10 parties which you absolutely must experience in your life”

Saturday 17th February 2007 the Gran Teatro La Fenice, built in 1792 hosted what is to be the most spectacular and exclusive event of the Carnival season 2008 in Venice: the Grand “Cavalchina” Ball, one of the most famous traditional masked ball for Carnival in Venice.

This year the City of Venice gives to all its hosts the opportunity to live a deep and unique experience: Sensation, the 2008’s Venice Carnival celebrations. It represents a very original way to visit Venice. Each of the 6 Sestieri, the quarters that compose the city, has been associated with a particular sense…

I’ve been visiting Naples for the past few days. I am totally overwhelmed by all the holiday lunches and dinners, Christmas concerts, rich Presepi, crucifixes, antique markets, old churches, hand-crafted nativity figurines, internal cloisters, hyper-caloric delicious traditional pastries and delicacies…

The Ratha-Yatra festival is perhaps the oldest continuously celebrated spiritual festival in the world. As far back as human records and memory extends, the chariots of Lord Jagannatha have rolled each summer in the sea-town of Puri on the Bay of Bengal, to the delight of millions of joyous pilgrims.

I have waited for the last six months the Body Temple event to take place in NY. Finally the weekend of heavy rains showed up together with the Body Temple at the Brooklyn Lyceum, formerly a 19-century gigantic bathhouse converted into a beautiful, raw theater space.

Schools of Samba are not like a regular teaching institution. A School of Samba is an association of people generally from a same neighborhood, usually part of the working class community (or favela) in a suburban area.