Storms drive picnickers indoors for Little Easter
Rain and storms began sweeping through the central and southern regions of the Italian peninsula on Monday, driving many families indoors for the traditional 'Pasquetta', or 'Little Easter' picnic.
Funerals planned for Italian musicians after weekend deaths
Italy was mourning on Monday the deaths of two of its great musical artists, Enzo Jannacci and Franco Califano.Funerals are planned on Tuesday for both musicians, said MEI, an organization representing independent musicians."(Tuesday) is an opportunity to remember them in the best way: playing their best songs for the wider public, drawing from their large and long artistic careers," said MEI.
You Can't Make This Stuff Up - American Owner Hires Italian Fascist To Run Premier League Team
Late on Saturday evening news started to filter through that Sunderland’s American owner Ellis Short had decided to fire manager Martin O’Neill only sixteen months after he was hired.
Italy's 10 'sages' try to help form government
Ten "wise men" will try to do what Italy's bickering politicians haven't been able to accomplish since inconclusive elections in late February — figure out a formula to help form a new government fast for the recession-mired nation as financial markets impatiently await an end to the impasse.
What's Happening in Rome on Easter
Since Rome, or more precisely the Vatican, is home to the Catholic Church, every year the city celebrates Easter and the preceding week in a grand style. Most of the Pope-centric traditions unfold in St. Peter’s Square. Feasts and picnics with family and friends follow on Easter Day and Pasquetta (or Little Easter. Remember: the Monday after Easter is a holiday in Italy).
Adolescence, Immigration and Nature: About the Italian Films at TFFl
The Tribeca Film Festival, founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center, will open the doors of its 12th annual edition from April 17– April 28. Italy is presenting a film competing in the World Narrative Feature Competition, a Feature length documentary, two shorts and a special installation to be held at MoMA PS1.
Really? This is Section A news for the United States?
What follows are a few comments and musings on a topic that I have, for the most part, thought deserved little to no attention in general. I state “in general” because there are those few occasions when we simply need to speak out, even if we might prefer otherwise. [Now, I realize that there is nuance in what I just said, nuance that will not be captured by the literalists and the superficialists amongst us. And so be it!]
Street art, political ideals, social values: la vita secondo Obey, tra genio e sregolatezza...
Tra i brusii di Canal Street, nei dedali di viuzze di Soho e fra i graffiti di quartieri di tendenza come Williamsburg. E’ in questi meandri newyorkesi che imperversa Shepard Fairey, alias Obey Giant, anche dopo la consacrazione planetaria che deve al poster su Obama: appiccica sticker, affigge manifesti di Occupy Wall Street e colleziona arresti. La Mondo Bizzarro Gallery ospita per la terza volta a Roma l’exhibition del guru della pop modern art su strada, celebrandone opere, valori, stili e contraddizioni.
'Besame Mucho' Fights Violence Against Women. Your Contribution is Essential
Interviewing professors, lawyers, therapists as well as ex-abusers, this documentary project aims to pose questions and propose answers about one of the worst sores of this society
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UPDATE 1-Soccer-Juve forward Vucinic out of 'derby of Italy'
Serie A leaders Juventus will be without striker Mirko Vucinic for the 'derby of Italy' at fifth-placed Inter Milan on Saturday (1400 GMT) because he has the flu.Vucinic was not included in the 21-man squad announced on the Italian champions' website (www.juventus.com) on Friday.
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New Europe Hundreds of migrants land in Italy, Malta
Four boats carrying a total of 342 migrants have landed in Italy and Malta, officials said Friday, as improved weather conditions in the Mediterranean herald more arrivals from Libyan shores.Three of the boats with 260 people on board were intercepted by Italian coast guards and taken to an immigration centre on the tiny island of Lampedusa, which is closer to north Africa than to the Italian mainland.
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