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“L’Aquila+Taranto” 2014. Un calendario insieme per rinascere

Il 4 dicembre, nella Sala Capitolare del Senato del capoluogo abruzzese , si presenta “L’Aquila+Taranto” 2014. Calendario deato e promosso dalla giornalista e scrittrice Tiziana Grassi. La forza della solidarietà per uscire dalla “notte”

A Sweet Christmas from Abruzzo

Giulia Madron

Sorelle Nurzia is an Italian confectionary company based in a town near L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo region, known especially for its revolutionary "torrone," which they have been making for almost two centuries

Renzi and the PD Take Center-Stage

Judith Harris

The now splintered conservative parties represented by Silvio Berlusconi and his former alter ego Angelino Alfano slip at least momentarily into the background this week as the Partito Democratico (PD) finally takes center-stage. Opening December 8, the PD national convention will sanction the election of a new general secretary expected to represent a crucial generational shift away from the old-style politicians of the past. Three candidates are in the running in primaries throughout the country.

Primarie PD. Due posti per votare a New York

Il PD di New York informa che nella zona metropolitana l'8 dicembre ci saranno due seggi

November 28, 2013

Thank You All & Please Stay Tuned...

Johnny Meatballs DeCarlo

3 potential TV projects for 2014 with 3 production companies

Eataly Chicago Opens Dec. 2. It Will be Bigger Than New York's

R. G.

Located in Macerich’s The Shops at North Bridge in the heart of the famed Michigan Avenue District, Eataly Chicago will be the ultimate culinary destination for Chicagoans, out-of-towners, epicureans and Italophiles. “The city of Chicago boasts such a great food culture; we are very excited about this new opening,” Oscar Farinetti, founder of Eataly comments.
Follow the countdown to the opening starts on the official Eataly Chicago Facebook Page

The Guardians: Countdown #3

A very special event will take place in NYC on December 10, 2013. Sponsored by ENI - a worldwide energy company. Stay tuned.

November 28, 2013

The First Risorgimento circa 200 B.C. – The South brings Civilization to Northern Italy

Tom Verso

Contemporary presentations of Italian history refer to ‘THE’ (definite article implying singularity) Risorgimento circa 1870 A.D., when in fact it should read ‘A’ (indefinite article implying more than one) Risorgimento. The nineteenth century unification of the Italian Peninsula was in fact the second unification of Italy – the first being the Roman unification circa 200 B.C. --- While the geographic characteristics of the two unifications were essentially the same, there was a significant difference in the cultural processes of the respective Risorgimenti. The 200 B.C.

Quasi quasi m'innamoro: Chick Lit Torinese

Traci Andrighetti

The debut novel by acclaimed television screenwriter Anne Mittone.

A Day, or so, in the Life of Jerry Krase, De Blasio Campaign Volunteer

Jerry Krase

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began Ivan’s bitterly cold and dark day as a forced laborer in a Gulag camp, mine began a bit more leisurely on a brilliantly warm and sunny Tuesday morning in Super-gentrified Park Slope, and there the similarity almost ends. Spending even a little time to help my fellow half-Italian Park Slope neighbor become at least the fourth Mayor with Brooklyn roots was well worth the effort. This is the third in what will be a continuing series of more and less critical observations of how promised progressive policies will or will not remake The Big Apple.

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Umberto Eco: Exploring Imaginary Lands With One of Italy’s Masters of Fiction

Umberto Eco, 81, the Italian semiotician and globally successful novelist, is an insatiable bibliophile. He has collected more than 50,000 books, and has a particular passion for volumes on imaginary, occult or even bogus subjects.
Source: NYT
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Italy wants to buy back CBA employee's $4m island

Italy plans to buy back an island off the coast of Sardinia just weeks after it was sold to a senior employee of the Commonwealth Bank.

The tiny island of Budelli, which is famous for its pink sandy beaches, was bought last month for €2.94 million ($4.34 million) by Michael Harte, who is the CBA's chief information officer.

 
 
Source: Sunday Morning Herarld
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