Italy Blog

As a result of my hanging out on Twitter I came across Italian band the Mirrors, or rather they came across me, seeing as they decided to ‘follow’ Blog from Italy’s Twitter channel. Some time back I came across another Italian band, wrote a little about them and posted a few of their videos on Blog from Italy.  That last band was Amycanbe, and being a nice crowd, they wrote a post on the band’s blog to thank me for saying something about them.  Amycanbe caught my ear because the band sings in English. The Mirrors also sing in English, which is why they caught my ear too.  Here is a video of them in action singing their track Another Story .

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The Mirrors

The fourth edition of the International Roma Film Festival is officially planned from 15 to 23 october. Among the 14 films competing for the final prize “Alza la testa” with Sergio Castellitto, “Up in the air” by Jason Reitman – Juno’s author – and “Plan B” by Marc Berger.

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International Rome Film Festival to open in October

I doubt this week’s Guess Where in Italy? photo-quiz will cause those who know Italy too many problems

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Guess Where in Italy? Part 5

Mafia has expanded on the Internet and reached Facebook, the social network website joined by uncountable users daily. Among thousands of groups and fan pages on Facebook, mafia supporters have been taking their own spaces and promote them.

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Camorra and Mafia celebrated on Facebook

Encouraging property news have been coming from Italy lately.

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What you can buy with up to €170,000

Words by Carla Passino Leg is in, long is out. This, together with a revival of big, sexy, 1980s glamour, was the message of the first big day of Milan’s fashion week . Which is why Alberta Ferretti’s ethereal, romantic and serenely beautiful collection surprised the fashion crowds on Friday morning

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Triumph of the sexy look

Italy, in many ways, is ideally suited for a campervan holiday. Its shape and wealth of interesting small and big places means that to get the most out of it one needs to travel around.

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Campervan Holidays in Italy

Words by Antonio Carluccio – Images courtesy of Quadrille Publications It is unnecessary to say that the common denominator of all the given recipes is mushrooms, and these are an autumnal speciality ‘par excellence’. People in all Custom Teaser:  Antonio Carluccio, renowned chef and mushroom expert shares some of his favourite autumn recipes.

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Red Mullet with Chanterelles

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s Prime Minister, has done it once more. In a public speach in Milan he called Obama tanned and then went on to say “”You wouldn’t believe it, but they go sunbathing at the beach together – his wife is also sun-tanned.”.

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Berlusconi does it again – calls Obama and Michelle Obama "tanned"

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s Prime Minister, has done it once more.

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Berlusconi does it again – calls Obama and Michelle Obama "tanned"