Italy Sells 8 Billion Euros of Treasury Bills as Demand Rises
Italy sold 8 billion euros ($9.9 billion) of Treasury bills as investor demand rose from a previous sale last month. The Rome-based Treasury sold the 364-day bills at 2.767 percent, up from 2.697 percent at the last sale of similar- maturity debt on July 12.
The Silly Season Sweeps Italy
Ferragosto – the name derives from the original Feriae Augusti summer festival proclaimed by the Emperor Augustus – is a major holiday celebrated on August 15 when all of Italy shuts down, and streets are deserted. This peak of summer holidays is what the media pros call “the silly season,” when reporters are allowed a long leash for gossip in the absence of hard news.
August 13, 2012
The Silly Season Sweeps Italy
Ferragosto – the name derives from the original Feriae Augusti summer festival proclaimed by the Emperor Augustus – is a major holiday celebrated on August 15 when all of Italy shuts down, and streets are deserted. This peak of summer holidays is what the media pros call “the silly season,” when reporters are allowed a long leash for gossip in the absence of hard news.
George Bailey from "It's a Wonderful Life" is Based on an Italian-American
The main character in the American holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life" is based on the most incredible Italian-American you've never heard of.
Remembering the Memorable Carlo Rambaldi, aka E.T.'s Father
Rambaldi was known as an old-style effects man who often complained that computers had taken the magic out of the craft. He won three Oscars, including a Special Achievement Award, for his work on King Kong, Alien and E.T.
IT, interioritratti. Manhattan brilla delle lampade con l’anima di Stefania Vola
L’artist-architect anticipa la collezione di oggetti iconografici composta dalle sculture poetiche di Luminaria, scherzose ed ironiche, Isadora, dedicata alla Ducan, dallo stampo sognante, briose come '... quel genio di Arturo!', in cui rende omaggio al trasformista Arturo Brachetti, parlando anche della progettazione del museo multimediale di Villa Grock a Imperia
Italian special effects master Carlo Rambaldi, father of ET, dead at 86
Special effects master and three-time Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi died Friday in southern Italy after a long illness, Italian news media reported. He was 86. Rambaldi was known as the father of “E.T.”
Italy's Russo in heavyweight final
Italy’s Clemento Russo and Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine will meet in the heavyweight final of the London Olympic Games boxing tournament on Sunday.Russo beat Teymur Mammadov of Azerbaijan 15-13 in their semifinal on Friday and Usyk stormed to victory over Tervel Pulev of Bulgaria, winning 21-5.
For Italy mafia fugitive, trip to the beach proves costly
Alleged mafia boss Roberto Matalone evaded the police for two years, but a trip to the beach in southern Italy on Thursday proved to be his undoing. Accused of being part of the inner circle of the Pesce clan, one of the most powerful branches of the Calabria mob, he is married to the sister of boss Francesco Pesce, who was arrested last year hiding in an underground bunker.
Simplifying Italy to Lure Global Graduates
When Sotirios A. Tsaftaris left Northwester Univerity near Chicago to become an assistant professor in this walled, medieval city in Tuscany, most of his colleagues expressed doubts. In Lucca? And they speak English?
Via Del Popolo: San Gennaro’s Miracle Brings a Piazza to Mulberry Street
An alternative version of the traditional San Gennaro street fair, "Via Del Popolo" will take place from September 13 to 23 on Mulberry Street between Houston and Prince. The project aims at bringing the concept of the street festival back to its roots, reimagining the block as a public piazza and art exhibition. A conversation with Monsignor Donald Sakano, Pastor of the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street.
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