Tweet The other weekend I was invited by my ever productive and active Italian artist friend Gaetano Fiore to attend the Il Segno Art Prize awards ceremony at the Zamenhof Art Gallery in Milan. I’d heard on the grapevine that Gaetano might well win a prize. Indeed, he did
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Gaetano Fiore wins the 2011 Il Segno Contemporary Art Prize
Custom Teaser: Remembering the talented tenor who tragically passed away 5 September 2011 after a motorbike accident.
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In Memoriam: Salvatore Licitra (1968-2011)
Say goodbye to brand ambassadors like George Clooney and model Thiago Alves, Martini is searching for a new hunky face to star in an upcoming ad campaign. Candidates for the new commercial are expected to be between 25 and 30 years old, but there are few requirements beyond that.
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Martini Offers 150,000 Euro to a Professional Kisser
Tweet Playboy Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ‘s already rock bottom reputation and credibility sank to new lows today. It has been revealed that the contents of more than 100,000 (yes, you read that correctly – one hundred thousand plus) intercepted bunga bunga case telephone conversations are about to see the light of day.
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Silvio Berlusconi: In It Up to His Bunga Bunga Eyeballs
Tweet When a parcel of homework arrives a few weeks before setting off to Italy for a Learn Italian in Tuscany course, one can only suspect that the planned week-long experience will be anything but a passeggiata in the park. There is much to learn: conjugations of verbs, suffixes, specific vocabularies, complicated plurals — Italians don’t just add an ‘s’, and, idiomatic expressions to memorise in the hope that we might be mistaken for locals. I am picked up from my Florence hotel and whisked through undulating farmlands striped with vineyards and dotted with terracotta-roofed farmhouses before arriving an hour later in the little mountain village of Moggiona – population 300
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Learning Italian in Tuscany
It may already be considered the fashion capital of Italy, but tourists from all over Europe have confirmed that Milan’s regular residents are the coolest dressers on the continent.
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Milan’s Residents the Best Dressed in Europe
Tweet I was curious to see whether the best selling Italian coffee which was at the top of my previous best selling Italian coffee on Amazon.com post was still a hit. The answer lies below in the best selling Italian coffee top ten list. Note that to get into to best selling Italian coffee Top Ten , the coffee concerned has to be made by an Italian coffee roaster in Italy
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Best Selling Italian Coffee – The Top Ten List
Tweet In this, the second part of my series on up and coming Italian designers , I am going to tell you about some more talented, but lesser known designers. The designers in question have been producing interesting work both independently and with some of the giants of Italian design, as you will discover
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Italian Design Feature: Up and Coming Italian Designers – Part 2
Tweet One of these days I’ll stop writing about Italy’s colourful prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and what he’s been up to. As to when such a day will arrive, I’m not holding my breath! Predicting just when Berlusconi will exit stage right is about as impossible as forecasting a sunny day in the UK
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Silvio Berlusconi: A Question of Credibility
A creation by Roccobarocco An Italian designer preparing to show his collection at Milan Fashion Week has had every piece of clothing stolen less than two weeks before his scheduled show.
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Thieves Steal Italian Designer’s Entire Collection