Jonathan Arnowitz-Taylor is a Design Manager and novelist whose fiction illuminates the intricate landscape of alternative LGBTQ coming-of-age experiences. He is also currently working on a major motion picture screenplay to be announced soon.
M/s and Kink
A real Master can be domineering, demanding, and sexually the top. However, there is a difference between authentically being that Master and being a dangerous bad actor who uses a Master cover to hie up their own incompetence or downright evil intent.
M/s and Kink
The novel is often bold and inventive in form, thrilling readers who favor character and innovation over narrative momentum: a set piece involving Wagner’s Parsifal is wild, hilarious and erotic.
Wine & Food
Some mixed bag of shows my son Borys and I attended in 2023.
Wine & Food
When one thinks of great Italian wines, immediately the great reds pop into mind: Brunello, Barolo, Chianti, Amarone, etc. World class wines that are in demand all over the world. When one thinks about white wines, however, different associations are made.
Wine & Food
I have noticed that the so-called great cooking experts are creating a violence against decent cooking that actually is surprisingly simple. They will add complexity for its own sake, add surprising taste sensations when none are needed.
Wine & Food
What do you do on a snowy day in Bologna? Today it started to rain but ended up snowing—very nicely.
bologna
This Sagre’s was a down to earth foodie celebration akin to an American county fair, except instead of corndogs and prize pigs: it was prize porcini mushrooms and a 3-course (actually 7 different dishes) all made with Porcini mushrooms.
family
It is now Tuesday 2 days before we leave. We started the day with our morning coffee. We went to a coffee place called the rooster, and indeed I found a rooster painted in chocolate ontop of my cappuccino. Then onwards for a tour of Edinburgh Castle and afterwards we
family
Today’s Fringe festival was a low-key day. It started with a lazy morning and then going to a lunchtime concert at St. Mary’s Cathedral. It featured a youthful all-female ensemble called, the Soteria Piano Trio. They played a varied program. The first half was modern music, but not
family
Today, Sunday 13 August, was a lazy day. We had only a show at 6:00 and we decided to use this as a down day. Eli went out on his own. As I ran out of clean socks so I ran over to Marks & Spencer to buy a
Writing
The film, Piccolo Corpo (Little Body) by debut director Laura Samani is an almost virtuoso display of the all too human struggle of women in a desperately inhumane male dominated world.
bologna
I also had a pass to the Cinema Ritrovato festival, an international annual festival of restored films. I thought I was in for lighter fare than I bargained for: but they were all amazing films...