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
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
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
Michael Fassbender celebrates his Best Actor win The Venice Film Festival closed its 68th edition on Saturday, sending many of the early favorites home without a prize. The Venice Film Festival Jury chose Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s film based on the German legend of Faust for the prestigious Golden Lion.
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68th Venice Film Festival Awards International Mix of Films
Tweet Nobody in Italy, or elsewhere for that matter, is sure just what Italy’s new round of austerity measures will consist of. “ La manovra ” – “ The manoeuvre ” as the press calls the new austerity package, seems to be changing from one moment to the next. Pension changes in, then out, then in. VAT increase, no VAT increase, followed by VAT increase proposal once more. Tax surcharge on high earners. No tax surcharge. Partial tax surcharge for politicians and public sector employees. Then back to no tax surcharge, maybe. Everyone is confused. Yesterday Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi apparently made a series of frantic telephone calls to the governor of the Bank of Italy and to the European Central bank in an attempt to convince them, no doubt, that everything would be all right on the night. Whenever that night may be
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An Austerity Measure Suggestion for Silvio Berlusconi
Just when George Clooney is back in Italy to debut his latest movie at the Venice Film Festival , ex-girlfiend Elisabetta Canalis is heading to America. The Italian showgirl is taking her act on the road to appear on the hit program Dancing with the Stars.
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George Clooney’s ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis on Dancing With the Stars