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
According to Istat, the national statistics bureau, Italy boasts 16,145 people over 100 years old. Of these centenarians, 13,040 are women and 3,105 are men. Centenarians are most concentrated in the northwest (4190) with less living on the islands (1533).
18-year-old Stefania Bivone has been crowned Miss Italy 2011. To become Miss Italy Stefania was first awarded the title of Miss Calabria, a competition that she claimed she entered just for fun. She then went on to win the national title of Miss Wella, and started to believe that winning Miss Italy 2011 might be possible
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Miss Italy 2011 Crowned
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
In the last 24 hours, 80,000 lightning strikes have fallen in northern Italy, almost one sixth of the yearly total in a single day.
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80,000 Lightning Strikes Hit Italy in 24 Hours
According to a new survey by Eurispes, 7 million Italians (a full 12% of the population) identify as vegetarians, up from just 1.5 million in 2000. Based on projections, by 2050 Italy will host 30 million vegetarians. Of these 7 million meatless citizen, a full 600,000 are vegan (meaning they abstain from eggs and dairy as well).
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Vegetarianism Rises Dramatically in Italy
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
While in Venice to debut her new film, W.E. , Madonna found time to sit down with Italian weekly magazine Oggi . She may have been hoping to promote her latest directorial project, but the Queen of Pop has instead been pulled into a political fight over an offhand comment that has outraged some Italian politicians
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Madonna Infuriates Italian Politicians with Berlusconi Comment
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