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Sharon Stone hospitalized in Italy after migraine complaints, back on red carpet shortly after

U.S. actress Sharon Stone bounced back from a hospital admission at Milan fashion week to chair a star-studded fundraising gala on Saturday. Stone, 55, was admitted to hospital with a migraine after attending a runway show by Italian fashion house Fendi on Friday, raising questions over whether she could chair the Saturday AIDS research fundraiser as planned.
 

Source: Daily News
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Italy's young fashion designers fight for niche

MILAN: As Italy's top fashion brands hit the catwalks in Milan this week, the country's young designers are finding other ways to show off their collections in a bid to break into in an increasingly challenging market.

Source: Businness Recorder
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Huffington Post Italy Launching: Arianna Huffington Speaks To La Repubblica About New Site

The Huffington Post is almost set to unveil its latest international edition — this time, in Italy. L'Huffington Post is due to launch early Tuesday in Rome. It will be the Huffington Post Media Group's sixth global site, joining the editions in Canada and Quebec, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Source: The Huffingto Post
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Looking for work in Europe’s economic crisis? Make sure you have the right connections

ROME — Maria Adele Carrai has two master’s degrees from Italian universities in economics and Asian languages and is now earning her Ph.D. in international law in Hong Kong. Her linguistic credentials are formidable: Besides native Italian, she has nearly flawless English, a rarity in Italy, as well as French, Arabic, Japanese and Mandarin.

Source: The Washington Post
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Italian police arrest man charged with impersonating a pilot

By Melanie Evrsley
An Italian man was arrested at an airport in Turin, Italy, for allegedly impersonating a pilot and convincing a crew to let him fly inside the cockpit aboard a flight from Munich, Germany, to Turin, Al-Jazeera reports.

Source: USA Today
September 24, 2012

The Cooking Cugines Brooklyn Pizza Tour

Johnny Meatballs DeCarlo

EPISODE ONE COMING IN OCTOBER!

September 24, 2012

Vedi Napoli e poi Muori 2012

Jerry Krase
Jerry Krase
Breakfast view from the Marriott Renaissance Naples Hotel Mediterraneo

Spending eight days in Naples you learn more about life than death.

The Columbus Circle Art Project. Really?

Anthony Julian Tamburri

What you find below is an email that Joseph Guagliardo sent out to a number of people a few days ago. Being one of the people on his list, I asked him if I could share it with you all here on i-Italy, so that more of you would also see it. He immediately said yes. While Mr. Guagliardo’s email below speaks to the specifics of the Columbus Statue’s current state of affairs — namely, the Tatzu Nishi enclosure and the creation of a living room in which to visit Columbus — it speaks to a series of much larger issues as well, albeit indirectly in this context.

September 24, 2012

Felice 83

Riccardo Costa

Celebrating the one year anniversary of Felice 83, I took part in a raffle where the prize was a full dinner for 4 people. I never won anything in my life, but that dinner I had at Felice 83 was certainly a winner!

September 23, 2012

Sicilian Responses....United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit ... Plato, Lampedusa and Sciascia

Tom Verso
President Obama and Jon Cozine

“Ain’t No Criminals on Wall Street”

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All This in the Name of Fashion New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino

New York City Ballet’s gala on Thursday night managed to do disservices to both ballet and fashion. Three dances were presented with new costumes by the fashion designer Valentino, as was a world premiere; a Balanchine ballet was performed with its three lead roles redistributed among eight dancers; and Valentino was honored in film and, finally, onstage.

Source: NEW YORK TIMES

Not Only Polverini's Pigs

Judith Harris

Scandal at the Lazio regional government. A party, which was attended by around 2,000 people and cost 30,000 euros, was held in Rome. The event under the theme, “Ulysses returns and confronts his enemies” was organized a member of the regional government. In more than one photo Renata Polverini, head of the regional government, appears surrounded by grinning guys, girls in skimpy garb and geezers from her governing body, turned out in togas

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