Seventeen –year-old Luca Bono from Turin beat nineteen other finalists on Saturday to become the Champion Magician of Italy. The competition, held in…
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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 04:32
Italian actor Elio Germano has won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in Daniele Luchetti’s “La Nostra Vita”. He shares the…
Wed, 05/26/2010 - 03:54
Spaghetti are plural in Italian and Italians are always very amused when English-speaking folk treat the word as a singular noun. If you want to say “…
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 09:33
Visits to museums and archaeological sites can be expensive in Italy, especially if you are in one of the main centres and want to see everything or a…
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 08:40
A proposal by Italy’s controversial Education Minister, Mariastella Gelmini, to extend the school summer holiday till 29th September has been greeted…
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 06:34
Erotic dancer Brigitta Kocsis, 27, was arrested yesterday in Montebelluna [Treviso, Veneto]. Kocsis, whose stage name is Brigitta Bulgari, is accused…
Mon, 05/24/2010 - 08:23
On Saturday 155 residents of the Swiss- Italian town of Porrentruy spent 14 hours at their local ice rink making the biggest tiramisù in the world. T…
Fri, 05/21/2010 - 09:18
Rome is Italy’s candidate for the 2020 Olympic Bid, it was announced this week, much to the disappointment of officials in Venice. Venice, in fact, w…
Fri, 05/21/2010 - 09:07
Advertising posters depicting Hitler in a pink uniform and wearing an armband with a red heart instead of a swastika have caused anger and outrage in…
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 10:47
This week Italy mourns the poet that Rai called its “last Marxist”, Edoardo Sanguineti, who died in hospital in Genoa on Tuesday. Sanguineti – poet,…
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 10:19
The cradle of the Renaissance is to become the “cradle of ice cream” from 28th – 31st May when the city of Florence hosts its first ice cream festival…
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 08:10
The Telegraph reports that negotiations are under way between the American ABC TV network, Mr Berlusconi’s Mediaset company and an unnamed British TV…
Tue, 05/18/2010 - 10:32
This is a tip for all you romantic souls out there.
Have you ever seen the initials TVB carved on a tree or as part of a graffito in Italy? You may h…
Tue, 05/18/2010 - 09:49
In yet another hit to the reputation of the city of Naples, news has emerged that certain bakeries and pizzerie may be using wood from stolen coffins…
Fri, 05/14/2010 - 11:06
Pictures by Germaine Stafford - Recipe courtesy of chef Stefano BocciaIf you don’t like clams, omit them from the recipe, double the amount of courget…
Fri, 05/07/2010 - 11:55
Two exhibitions which retrace the artistic lives of Medieval protagonists through painting and sculptural works of great merit, and which once again a…
Thu, 04/08/2010 - 11:11
With all the complex history, traditions and symbolism of an Italian wedding, even before we arrive at the drinks reception, I discovered that there a…
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 09:35
We'd heard so much about La Serenissima, we'd instantly jumped to the conclusion that it was too good to be true. Of course, people have a lot of mixe…
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 15:12
If Italian-Americans were offended by the stereotypes of “The Sopranos” and “Growing Up Gotti”, their anger was as nothing compared to the storm cause…
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 15:08
A 36-year-old metal worker from Ghana has named his son, born in 2005, after Silvio Berlusconi, Adnkronos reports. Anthony Boahene, who has lived in…